Ashlyns Award Program

Ashlyn graduated to 1st grade! She is doing so well and loves school. Her teacher was great! I was worried because Ashlyn is such a unique child to work with but her teacher said she was great and was one of her best students. It is amazing how well she reads now. She reads words that I can't figure out how she figures out. Hopefully learning comes as easy to her as it does to Brooke. At her program they sang songs and got an award for finishing Kindergarten. She says she is going to become a big girl next year because she doesnt have to have Brooke help her at school now! Next year will be exciting, 3 different schools at all different times. Should keep me crazier than ever!

Brookes Awards

Brooke is moving on to sixth grade!!! She is growing up so fast. She had her 5th grade awards and got 9 awards! She did really awesome this year. She excelled in math so she got an award for that. She had over 300 reading counts points so she got a picture with her favorite book taken and enlarged. Her other awards were for great grades and overall achievement. We are so proud of her. She says it is really sad leaving her school to go to another. She will never be in the same school as Ashlyn again either! That will be a challenge for me! So new school and new friends and alot of growing up!

Plants

The Girls are doing some plant growing this summer. They both got a citrus tree from the Ag Department for a 4-H project this next year of 4-H. They keep a record book on it and then next Feburary they go to Central Florida Fair to be judged. Candy gave them some tomatoe plants that she started. They are hugh! Everyday the kids are getting tomatoes and they love it. We have turned our front porch into our potted garden. We had a garden going in the backyard but Leah took care of that for us! Everything is gone. The strawberry plants are just starting to get strawberries. I don't really know what went wrong with them? Everything is still alive so thats a bonus for me, lets see how long we can keep them alive! Our next project will be canning! That should be a good one, I have never canned before. We are going to do strawberry jam and pickles. Hopefully I can pull this one off for the kids.