Here is Rockwell in Cesenatico, Italy with his cousins Liv and Lars. They spent all week last week on vaction, FROM Switzerland, IN Italy.. lol.
Another in Italy, also in Cesenatico.
Here they are back on Lake Lucerne. Liv is Jumpin’ in!
Rockwell trying to do a little wakeboarding.. but I think the “Beach” is a little small to launch from, from what I can tell.
Gonna Flip!
Flippin!
I think he is having fun with his cousins. Which is nice.
Posted on 18 July '16 by admin, under Activities, Switzerland. No Comments.
Melinda and I went out mountain bikeing at the FATs trails! It was fun!
She knows how to ride well… I just need to get us out more often.
Posted on 17 July '16 by admin, under Activities, BMX. No Comments.
Anyone that prejudges or underestimates Melinda is going to be surprised. I visited her at the Governors School today, and I watched her Interact with other students and people. She does this thing where she puts on a front that is not representative of her actual knowledge at all. I’m not sure why she does it, but I am entertained by it. She will act completely ignorant of a subject when I KNOW she is quite knowledgeable of it. She has a very silly/goofy side, that I know has real purpose.. I’m just not sure why she does it. But it clearly has purpose.
I love watching you Melinda. You are a force to recon with.
Posted on 17 July '16 by admin, under seasons. No Comments.
She is going AWAY to school.. not BACK to school. Hmm. Gonna’ miss her a tad more than I realized. Here is her first semester schedule. Entering as a.. Sophomore? Interesting. She clearly worked hard in high school. That stuff pays off sometimes.
Visiting his Aunt Teri and cousins Liv and Lars in Lucerne CH.
And Melinda is not very happy about being the last at something.. AGAIN.
Poor girl.
I only have one picture so far, but I will surely post more. Have fun Rockwell! And get your math work done!
Love you.
Posted on 8 July '16 by admin, under Activities, kids, Switzerland. No Comments.
Umm.. Two birthdays, and I totally failed to post about them. That was not very nice.
Rockwell left for Switzerland.
Hannah was VERY happy that 26 credits were applied to her college credit before she even entered.
Posted on 7 July '16 by admin, under Uncategorized. 1 Comment.
Went skeet shooting.. I seem to get good scores.. often better than the more seasoned people around me.. I have no idea why.
Took the girls to see Dan &Phil in Charlotte NC. They clearly had a good time! me, I just enjoyed seeing them have a good time…
And I had the SECOND annual Eds Uphill 5k.. I lost 50bucks to a stranger that was clearly faster than I was.. It was all in fun.
Posted on 30 June '16 by admin, under 5K, Activities. No Comments.
Umm.. The poor kid turns 13 and I dont have a picture? Not sure how that happened. I will have to get one from his mom.
In the mean time, you can see what was on top of his birthday cake. 🙂
Posted on 20 June '16 by admin, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Well, for one, Hannah Graduated! You saw in previous posts my daughter is awesome and wins all sorts of awards.. Turns out she did a lot of work too… You know, those college credits and all.
Her are some photos of the celebration! (I mean, I know that is why you are here.. You don’t want to just hear men drone on… 🙂 )
We have no idea who that girl is…
Friends!
Posted on 17 June '16 by admin, under Friends, kids, school. No Comments.
These girls are power houses. You know they are doing well when you are bit embarrassed by their haul…
Anyway, time for my Proud Parent Dump.. If pride cometh before the fall, I’m in trouble.
Here is the flyer for the night.
Here is the back of the flyer.
Crowd shot.
As you can see, Hannah swept the honors. “Honors Graduate” for having at least a 4.0gpa I believe. “Palmetto Fellows” award from the state of SC, for being in the top 6% of the class, and having a SAT greater than 1300. This comes with a awesome scholarship that essentially pays for college thank you Lord. “NHS”, “Silver fox” academy, for meeting some standard that the school sets for their top students?.. And Mathlete award for being on the Mathlete team.. If I’m not mistaken she was the captain of the team. And a letter and special gift from the head of the math department, Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Smith was Hannah’s special mentor and champion.. without her, I don’t know if Hannah would have been able to navigate the politics of school. Heck, I don’t know if I would have been able to. We have a lot to be thankful for for just that one person.
Hannah will wear the NHS stole and the combination Honors Scholar and Silver fox tassel at graduation. She also was recognized for tutoring all 4 years of High school. Melinda and Hannah are the only students that have tutored as freshmen so far, and Mrs Smith has recognized them as such.
I mean, Even Melinda pulled in 4 separate awards.. freshmen are not supposed to do that.. lol. (I am pretty confident that besides the Beta inductees, there were less than a half dozen freshmen that received anything else at all.)
Melinda received recognition for Being in Beta club, and she also was recognized for being one of the 4 school tutors. (My daughters represented 50% of the tutor staff! lol) She was also inducted into the Spanish Languages Honors Society, and received an award for the highest grade in the science honors class.
Seriously, these girls are going to be a force to be reckoned with.
Posted on 11 May '16 by admin, under Awards, school. No Comments.
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