Happy Birtday, Reed!

He made it to 8 which for him means NO MORE BOOSTER SEAT! He was very excited about that.

Science Center

We took a little trip across the bridge to the science center last week. It was okay but compared to the Indianapolis Children's Museum, it was a bit disappointing. They still had fun and we walked to The Old Spaghetti Factory for lunch so that was a nice end!

Both the boys passed out on the way home! I guess that means it was a good day!

Monroe Shine Tennis

Our third tennis tourney of the summer was a fund raiser for Floyd Central tennis and Millie has been playing in this since she was 6. This year Reed wanted to play too and they both did great! We had many rain delays but Reed thought it was fun to go out and dry the courts so he didn't mind.

Reed won several games and 1 set. He was playing against much older boys, one was Millie's age and going into 6th grade at Highland Hills. I was very proud of him and he says he wants to play more. His age group of 10s is hard to find but we will keep ours eyes open for the more opportunities for him to play.

Millie finished first place again in 12 singles. There were some girls she had played before and some she hadn't. Even though she is 10 playing up one age group in the 12s, she decided the next one she wants to play up in 14s since that the age she could be playing against when she plays middle school tennis.

Myrtle Beach, SC

Millie's softball team played in a Nationals tourney in Myrtle Beach so that's where our vacation was this summer. Millie has decided to stop playing Fusion softball because it takes so much time but we still had this tourney to play and one more after we got back. She really didn't want to play softball on her vacation but she was a good sport and still gave it her full effort. Her team had the ability to win this tourney but they had some mistakes and just weren't able to pull it off. The team that knocked us out of the bracket ended up winning the tourney. We were happy for them because they were from Indianapolis so we were hoping they would win if we didn't.

The kids were happy to be done a day earlier than planned so we could do the big ropes course we kept driving past on the way to the fields.

Reed got to be in a pizza eating contest!

We all had a good time but were happy to be home. And next year WE will get to decide where WE want to go on vacation which is very exciting!

Swimming

Reed enjoyed his swimming lessons this year. He was very excited to see his best friend was in the same group!

Kelsey Martin Champion

Millie's second tourney of the summer was the Kelsey Martin Classic to raise money for her middle school tennis team. She same in first in singles and second in doubles. Unfortunately, her partner was not feeling well and had to stop playing in the final game.

Southen Indiana Tennis Center Kickoff Classic

Millie played her first USTA tourney of the year this weekend. She has played in a few in the past but then last year decided she didn't like tennis and didn't play any. So I didn't push her and I just asked that she play one year for her middle school this year and if she still didn't like it then I would let her give it up. Well, doesn't mother always know best? She loved it and it's all she wants to do now. We signed her up for several USTA tourneys this summer. The first one was this weekend and although she is 10, they didn't have a 10u division so she played in 12u. There were 6 girls in her bracket and she beat her first 2 opponents easily making it to the championship game. I knew the last one would give her some fight but she pulled it off winning the first 2 sets and didn't even have to play the 3rd set. I was very proud of her! Her opponent was older and played mostly in Indianapolis about every month in a tourney.

I only got photos of her second match because rain moved us indoors for the final one.

SMK Awards

I was able to start the last day of school by going to mass with Reed and then coming back later in the day for his awards.

He got the "jumping through hoops" award. His teacher said he worked very hard to catch up to the rest of his class by coming in as a new student at the start of the 4th quarter. We are very happy with St. Mary of the Knobs. We are blessed that we were able to make the financial commitment and start him there before his 2nd grade year was over.

5th Grade Awards

I took off the last day of school so I could go to both kid's awards days.

I am sure glad I went because Millie got 3 awards, 2 I didn't know about!

She got an award from her Orchestra teacher.

She got her second award from her Reading and Social Studies Teacher.

Her final award was for all A honor roll. I was very proud of her!!

School's Out!!

They both had an excellent year and are ready for summer break, short as it may be...

Here is a look back at the first day of school photos...

Reed ended up with a new backpack and a new school by the time the year was over, Millie got her braces off and we had a different cat photo bombing our photos.