what a year

What a year for our family! - Kate and Molly with their grandmother last summer up on the Cumberland Plateau at Linger Lake where Martha's folks' live...outside of Crossville, TN.

Last summer Kate and Martha were in Germany, Austria and Prague on Kate's choir tour. Kate was runner-up for Homecoming Queen at Firestone High School. She gets her first varsity letter from the tennis team. She is prez of the Nat'l Honor Society. Looks like she will be one of Firestone's valedictorians. She was just named as the female senior student Chrysler Award winner which is for scholarship, character and leadership - four candidates elected by the senior class and the winner selected by the faculty. She was selected to be in the National Vocabulary Challenge. And now is having some good scholarship offers from colleges. She has had only 1 B on her report card in all her schooling! She has done great in the vocal music part of the Visual and Performing Arts School of Firestone and in AP and Honors classes and has a 4.1+.

Molly began her 9th grade year at Firestone in the Visual and Performing Arts School as a dancer. She is taking Honors classes and has 3.8. She did a great job on the jv soccer team and it looks like will be on the varsity next year. She is doing a lot of soccer playing on a multiple high school indoor team and on the premier Akron Metro Futbol Club where she is now playing Futsal up in Cleveland. And she dances at Martell School of Dance (was well as at home and about anywhere else.) She is out for track as a new sport this spring.

Both girls are on Student Council and will be in the girls' synchronized Catalinas show in April.

Now...let's see...Martha and I...we just cut the grass and cook supper and do the laundry. :-)