June Part 1--Trish

 Okay, I'm off having my own adventure right now (I actually go home today.). 

But for the June recap, we finished a great seminary year.  I took pics of all the fun things we took down from the walls.  

I headed up the 5th grade Moving On ceremony.  It was a lot.  It turned out really great--except we ran out of time for my principal to speak.  Oops.  We didn't time it all out well enough.  Too many kids to fit into a short time.  I had such a fun class this year.  I will really really miss them.  

I've also been managing the major renovations taking place at Genevas.  It's going to be really beautiful, but it's been an unexpected huge time demand.  I'm looking forward to getting her settled back into a nice, clean, and more livable house. I painted her bedroom and decided I'm done painting.  (Except now I've got an idea for painting my bathroom.) Ignore, Ignore, Ignore! 

I also had to prepare several days of sub plans while I was prepping Moving On, because I decided I'm going to take my writing a bit more seriously.  I missed the whole last week of school for WIFYR (Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers) conference.  

It was awesome.  I was in a class with Carol, the founder and leader of the conference.  My class loved my manuscript. I got so many good suggestions.  I'm really looking forward to making revisions, as well as writing book 2 in the series this summer.  25 minutes a day of writing/revising is my goal.  I also want to build an author website.  But of course today I'm working on the blog.  A little writing procrastination.

My WIFYR group. 

I got to spend the whole week with my mom.  Amazing. She did the afternoon workshops with me.  And, Shadow Mountain asked for her Christmas Card List manuscript this week.  Yay! 

Got to have dinner with Bradshaw.  The best!

We also went to 2 shows!  My Fair Lady at the Hale.  Incredible.  Wow.  The sets, the voices, just WOW! 

Last night we went to Fiddler on the Roof at the Hale.  It was so good.  Me with Tevye.  I aspire to pray like Tevye.

I did have a disappointing job interview fail.  But I have another interview with the same middle school this week for a different position.  I'm not sure that the Lord is ready for me to graduate from 5th grade, even though I feel ready.  I'm excited to go home today.  Miss my family.  But it's been an amazing week with so much learning. 

June Part 1--Libby

 Libby has had a rough time finding a job.  I heard a radio report that it's a problem for teens right now...especially if it's just a temporary job.  So that's been annoying.  She's a little like a baby right now--with days and nights mixed up. She stays up most nights and sleeps large chunks of the days.  Doesn't help with the job search.  

We're also trying to get her shoulder fixed up.  It's been agonizingly slow.  But MRI is complete, so now we just have to have the follow up appointment with the shoulder PA.  Doesn't seem like surgery will be recommended.  So hoping a PRP will fix her up like it did with the elbow.  

She's doing some intensive therapy through Pathlight.  This year was rough.  Her anxiety has been really high.  So hopefully this will help.

She's been pretty pleasant to live with--keeping the mess mostly contained to her room. 

We'll go visit Iowa Western in a couple weeks.  Hopefully we'll have her shoulder all sorted by then so she can get registered and get it all arranged to have a fresh start.

We are trying to help her remember to take her meds.  Money talks for this girl, so her allowance is now daily--paid out when I get a video of her meds being consumed. 

Plenty of time for makeup and photoshoots.  I could add 10,000 photos from these.  
Even though she's lovely--I'll spare you.

She has been a little helpful sometimes. 

Her car did not come through transport unscathed.  So annoyed at how much it cost to get this car back--and how it is permanently scarred. Not sure if she'll be taking a car back to school.  

She also gave me an hour or so to help with Moving On set up.  

So anyway, happy summer.  I guess.

  

June Part 1--Ben (He's now 15!)

Why did the pictures come in reverse order?  I added them the same way I added Sarah's?  Sigh.  Anyway, scroll to the bottom first if you want chronological Ben.  It's been a busy month with Spring Football starting, club wrestling practice, helping out at Grammy's (a little), mowing the lawn (under slight duress), and a really fun YM camping trip to celebrate the end of the school year. 

Ben's got his own little instagram where he's been posting his workouts.  @nortons_technique_shop I think it's called.  

He's got football camp Mon-Thurs.  Then I'll take him to Wenatchee until the 4th.  He's got a busy summer coming up!  He's most excited for FSY and then for Drivers ED! 

Looks too cold to me! 

Adorable.

One of my fav pictures of the year. 

YM campout.  He's been sending cute pictures and updates. 

We finally went to dinner at Fogo de Chao (we were going to go for Derek's birthday but it never worked out.). Eating the fried cheese--sending pictures to make Libby jealous (as she didn't want to go.) 

All the gifts.  He actually read his photobook out loud and said it was his favorite so far.  Loved that :)

I can't believe my baby is 15! 

Happy Birthday!  He wanted birthday crepes for breakfast.  For dinner they made pizzas at the YM activity.  So we just opened presents when he got home. 

Football.  

Wearing himself out. 

We had such a fun seminary year.  We are all glad to sleep in a little later, but it was an awesome year. 

June Part 1--Sarah

So June...Crazy, busy, fun.

Sarah did a fresh dye job.  Very bright! 

We finished seminary--we had graduation too.  They didn't give out any kind of certificates, so I didn't even think to take a picture.  Haha. 

Sarah's been really helpful this month. She helped paint Grammy's bedroom in the big clean out process. 

Sarah won the Kris Mason Scholarship for next year in choir.  It was so fun to see Kris.  She's the reason we LOVED Seattle Children's Chorus when we first started.  

Grammy and Ben came with me to see her perform.  Alayne came too, but parked on the street so she had to go before pictures. 

Sarah helped with my 5th grade Moving On--She helped decorate, and helped move the kids and keep things organized during the ceremony. 

She also came to the Park, and got massively sunburned.  

Fresh haircut for the summer--it's time for her to head to Lake Wenatchee for her 2 weeks.  Then she'll be off to Scotland!  I'm really going to miss her.  We've been doing great weight workouts since wrestling ended.  She's so awesome.