Summer

We got school finished and the girls are really enjoying summer. So much for the summer bringing a break from all of our running around. We just seem to be running in different directions than we were before. Here's the latest update: Erin - Erin finished the year #2 in 6th grade for AR points. She took 9 or 10 tests the final 2 days of testing and it pushed her from #3 to #2. The boy who finished #1 this year is transferring, so Erin is locked onto finishing first next year. She told me her goal was to get to 1,000 AR points for next year! She seems pretty determined to get there. Erin goes to cheer camp next month. She is really excited about going, but she wishes it was at the coast like Emily's. Erin and the girls are going to Temple High School. Sounds like the Temple Middle Schools will be there, so Erin will have some of her buddies from elementary she will get to catch up with during camp. Erin has already been spending a ton of time sleeping over friend's houses and chilling. She is feverishly planning a "cool group" get together at Summer fun next week. Emily - Em finished school and jumped right into summer school. She took a speech class for 8 days that was "killing her." She was a little envious of people not having to get up and be at school by 8am during summer. The class went really well and she loved the debate portion. Who would have thought Emily likes to argue and not be wrong????? I assure you genetics has nothing to do with it...Em just got back from cheer camp in Galveston. She said it was great and the team did really well. They got 1st in the team cheer and 2nd in the team dance. Em said it was a really competitive camp this time around. Emily said the upperclassmen got first chances at trying out for All-American. By the time they got to Emily, there was 1 spot left and Emily jumped all over the chance to tryout again. Emily is the only sophomore cheering next year. Em got selected All-American for the 4th year in a row!!!! She was super excited. There were 4 or 5 girls from Academy that tried out and 2 were selected. Em gets to look forward to driver's ed next. I believe she is doing that next month. Can't believe it's almost time for Em to start driving too. Elizabeth - E finally graduated! They had a pretty cool part of the graduation ceremony entitled the History of the Class. Since they are so small, they went year by year discussing events and people joining their class. Really fun to hear them chronicle each year and some of the crazy that went on during their time. After the graduation, some family and friends joined us at El Chico (E's employer) for some lunch. We were fortunate enough to have a couple of E's graduating friends join us with their families (Arnold & Cayten). E and Melinda went to Project Graduation and got home around 6am. They had a good time but were ready to be done. After that, we went to San Antonio for a little getaway with Tia Jill, Tio Mike, Max, Julia, Abuelo, and Barb. Introduced the California family to the Salt Lick and a couple of Mexican restaurants on the river walk. If you are down at the river walk, try Maria Mia's. The food was GREAT! E was overwhelmed at how thoughtful and generous our family & friends have been with sending graduation cards and gifts. We know a lot of incredible people...what can we say! We are now getting ready for E's new student conference at A&M. She will register for her classes during the conference. This still feels like it is happening so fast. E said her dorm check in is August 18th...does that seem like it's around the corner to anyone else? We are busy trying to enjoy the summer of pre-college. We have a few trips in the discussion along with some shopping trips. Monika...don't be surprised if y'all get a call about lunch during one of the trips!