Both Kathleen and Stephen are doing well. Basketball season ended for both and their teams did well although Stephen's season was cut a bit short when he broke his hand. Both Kathleen and Stephen made A/B Honor roll this past semester and both are going to try for straight A honor roll next year (at least that's what Mom and Dad are hoping for).
We got some more
good news from Stephen's Navy Junior ROTC unit. As you may
recall he was selected by the head of the JNROTC, Captain Holland, to be
the Cadet Commanding Officer of his unit for this last semester. Being promoted to a
position of Cadet Officer as a 14 year old Freshman is an accomplishment in and of
itself. Stephen also was selected as one of four Freshmen JNROTC
cadets in his class to attend the Annual JNROTC Dining-In. That affair is normally
reserved for the more senior cadet officers but it seems they select some junior classmen
to attend - a sort of "let's see how they'll fit in the future". But the
biggest bit of good news was that he was awarded the Fleet Naval Reserve Associations
Medal for his cadet achievements at the graduation ceremony. That added to his ten
or so cadet service medals and ribbons he earned during this past year. And finally
he has also been selected to go to JNROTC Mini Boot Camp this summer.
Stephen also played Spring soccer this
year. During the season he proceeded to brake his foot. and being a glutton for
punishment he is also going to a Soccer Camp up in South Carolina near the border with
North Carolinas later this summer. They have some English Premier League Players as
coaches so Stephen is really looking forward to that. He did make
the High School Soccer team and will therefore have to practicing three mornings a week
for part of the summer.
Kathleen
and Stephen are still very active as acolytes in Christ Church. Kathleen
won the Spring Acolyte sports trophy this year. The Diocese of Georgia published an
article about Kathleen and her sports activities in their magazine. The
article can be viewed by clicking on her photo at the left. If you wish to read the
whole newspaper you may do so by clicking here. The magazine
is published both in a regular newsprint as well as an on-line format using Adobe Acrobat
(.PDF format). Since both the extracted article, as well as the whole
newspaper, is in PDF format it can take awhile to download to your browser and then to
show up on screen. That is particularly true for the whole paper - It is not
recommended that you attempt to download the whole paper unless you have lots of time and
high speed Internet access - better to just get the article itself if you have a
dial-up connection. Note: If you
don't have Acrobat Reader on your computer you may download it for free from the Adobe
Acrobat Website by clicking
here.
And finally, y'all come and visit us ya hear. We finished tiling the downstairs family room, kitchen, back hall laundry and the downstairs bathroom a couple of months ago. We have also just made some replacements to the kitchen and later in June are painting about half the house including the front hall, stairway, upper hall, family room, kitchen, back hall and laundry, and the downstairs bathroom. We also hope to do the master bedroom and bath shortly afterwards. They'll be lots of changes for everyone to see. Plus you can see if we have really lost out collective minds over color choices.
