A portion of April and all of May has flown right by me! Of course, it doesn't help that the weather acted like it was March for those two months! Cole finished up his first year of college with great successes. His lacrosse team were the regional champions but unfortunately, were eliminated in the national quarter finals. He is a private pilot and close to his instrument rating. He received the Military Excellence Award for academic, military and leadership in his ROTC unit and was on Westminster's Dean's list both semesters. Cole is currently in San Diego for his Navy/Marine ROTC training and after a week of riding around on AAVs (Armored Assault Vehicles), learning about and identifying IEDs on the IED course and using night goggles to shoot a grenade launcher and M16, he is reports it was the best week of his life! He is in his element and loving every minute!
Charlie finished up his freshman year and is more than ready to start his sophomore year at Bingham High School. He has his learner's driving permit but Mom has to push him out the door to go driving. After being in two car accidents as a passenger in the last two years, he is just not all that excited to be the driver! Charlie had a good lacrosse year but due to the lack of a consistent coaching, his team struggled. As the captain of his lacrosse team, he would many times run the practices himself! He is hoping for better coaching next year!
Little Miss Popular, Syd, completed her first year in junior high and excelled as a student leader. She made many more friends and adjusted to the life of a junior higher! Lacrosse is still Syd's life. She is playing for the Bingham Girls Juniors (Mom coaches) as well as playing on a competition team, the Utah Mamaci. Her summer will be spend at lacrosse and camps. She has two lacrosse tournaments, one in California, Oakcrest and Girls camp. Between all of that she has an exercise regime that she has Charlie doing with her for her comp team!
Eric is still the backbone of the Neonatal Program at the Utah Department of Health. In addition to his 50+ hours of work a week, he is also improving the yard and garden. It looks better than it has in years! He makes sure his busy family gets fed, has clean clothes and cars in working order!
I am finishing up my lacrosse coaching while wrapping up things with my accounting job at the Utah Department of Health. My last day as an accountant will be August 11 as I make my career change to teaching. Between my master's degree, preparing for my new classroom and class, coaching and work, I am a very busy mom but I have an extremely supportive family who have been with me every step of the way. My husband is amazing as he encourages me to take a considerable cut in salary to achieve my dream of teaching!
We have been busy in the last two months and look forward to a summer of more!
