School Year Wrapup

Nina running a relay. Either the 4x400 or the 400 leg in the medley.

  Ford and Nina participated in Track and Field this spring. Curtis was the throwing coach again this year. It is a good way for them to spend time together. I was able to go to a couple of meets to watch them compete. Track meets are quite fun!! LONG but fun!

Ford sprinting for the line in the 200 meter.

Ford letting one fly in the javelin.

Another javelin throw.

Ford in the 100 meter. Tough competition.

MHS took 1st place in region. Nina was the region champ in the 400 meter. As a freshman! Pretty good stuff. Ford should have been region champ in javelin, but someone else got a really good throw and he wasn't throwing that well at the region meet. Both the boys and girls teams took 2nd place at the state meet. 

Showing off that empty diploma folder!
Ford graduated on May23. We were so happy to celebrate this moment with him. We were also so happy to have Curtis’s  parents be able to come as well as my mom.  Mike and Ellen liked the quick program and small class size. They're used to classes with upwards of 400 students, not 47.  

Squeeze from the next in line to graduate!

Happy, tired parents.

The next day, May 24, was the awards assemblies at the elementary school. Sadie, of course, got lots of certificates for being an exceptional student and scholar with high marks in all her studies. The one I got the biggest kick out of was winning the Speed Stacks contest on Field Day. My kind of field day event!

receiving her certificates

Soren also received some recognition for his work in school. An award for outstanding work in math? What in the world? Our family is not known for its math prowess. Maybe that's going to change?

He was so fast getting there to get his certificate, he's a blur!

We are so happy that we all survived the end of the school year rush. There were also trips for State FBLA, State Band and State Choir as well as State Solo and Ensemble thrown in there. May is always a blur and we come out on the other side hoping we got it all done.
We are thankful to have yet one more high school graduate in our family. He had a great Sr. year and I hope he can look back on it fondly. Now it's on to bigger and better things. Fort Jackson, get ready cause here he comes!!