9th grade has been a busy one for Jentry. She took a few hard classes this year that kept her on her toes. She did amazing though. Pulled a 4.0 for three terms (One term she got an A-). I am so super proud of her! At the end of the year we got a letter in the mail that one of her teachers had nominated her for an award and we were invited to an Awards Ceremony. Jentry ended up getting an award for Technical Theater and the Golden Presidential Award. (If only it didn't have to have Obama's signature on it...) She is definitely a smarty pants! I don't know where she gets it. Not from me, that's for sure!!
She got her braces off this year and she was so so excited about it! She has beautiful teeth and a great smile! Jentry is a HUGE help around the house. She will clean ANYTHING except for her bedroom. She hates that chore. For good reason.. Its usually a big mess! Oh well, you cant be perfect in everything, right? ;-)
She had definitely gotten more boy crazy this year and I'm not ready for that. I need a little bit more time to adjust to this stage of life... say another...10 years? That should do it.
I cant believe my baby is going to be in 10th grade. HIGH SCHOOL! When I pulled away from the Jr. High after picking her up from the end of the year Lagoon trip it was a little sad. She is now a Maple Mountain Golden Eagle.
Brinley also had a great year this year. This year she was able to participate in the "Mini Society". She had make her own business, pay for it, market it and hopefully make some "mini bucks" to use at her auction. She had her friend, Haley, chose to do a fish pond and plinko. I think they did pretty good at it! Luckily the weather held out just long enough.
I think Brinley has really grown up this year. Not only physically (THIS GIRL IS TALL) but in many other ways. She is becoming such a young lady! I like her strong will (most of the time). She doesn't back down on what she believes and she will let you know if she doesn't agree with you. She's always been a little knot head and I think that will take her far in this life, actually.
Brinley will be getting braces this coming year. She is scared and excited, I think.
She is a big help around here, also. She has taken over babysitting the boys for me when I need a babysitter. I think Jentry was more than willing to give that job up. She is a great babysitter too! I usually come home to the boys having done their homework and she has actually played with them and taught them new tricks. She just taught Chase how to hang upside down on the swing. Gives me a little heart attack every time he does it!
The big first grade! Ty had such a great year this year. He loved going all day to school. He is such a great friend and I found many notes from his friends in his back pack through out the year. Actually, I just found one the other day that said, "Dear Ty, you are always so nice to me." I don't know who it was from but I thought it was super cute. He is his brothers best friend and Chase definitely missed him while he was gone to school. Ty has really gotten into "beyblades" this year and has to earn all of the ones he has. That's been no small task. Those things are a little pricey for my liking. But he will work hard for them! He is constantly looking them up on Amazon to check prices and he is always asking me what jobs he has to do to get enough money to earn one. This boy will work for beyblades! I got to go on a field trip to Thanksgiving Point with Ty and his class. It was super fun and they had a great time!
Chase sure enjoyed Kindergarten! And I enjoyed my 2.5 hours of free time. Though it seemed to pass too quickly. He made a lot of new friends. His favorite part of school was, of course, recess. He absolutely loved his teacher and it took me a long time to convince him that her name was not Miss. He thought all girl teachers were named Miss or Mrs and I could not convince him otherwise. I got to go on the Zoo field trip with Chase and we had a great time. It was his first time on the bus and he loved it. He had the option to ride home with me or on the bus...the bus won out. When Chase brought home the pic of him holding the "Class of 2025" it brought tears to my eyes. It wont be too long before he is graduating! For goodness sakes, we are already in 2013. I cant believe how fast time flies. It just continues to fly even faster.
(Sorry a lot of this was the same information that I posted on the last post but I wanted to add some pics of them on their first and last day of school.)
