College Visit Number One... Check!

This has been a very eventful week for our family!

Tori received her learner's permit yesterday and already has almost 4 hours of driving in! She's doing pretty well and has only driven over 2 curbs! :) She's really doing quite well with it despite the curb incidents and I trust she will improve considerably as time goes on.

Logan was invited to attend a Green Carpet Day at MSU this summer and we chose today for that. They invited a certain amount of juniors (now seniors) to attend one of these days and find out more about Honors College. This was good for him to hear more about MSU and what they have to offer. Michigan State University has just moved into 2nd choice for him.

We really should check out his first choice sometime soon... Massechusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This means, however, that I will need to go with him on a somewhat long road trip since Mike doesn't have enough vacation time left. MIT only takes about 1,100 freshman each year and Logan would really like to one of them next year. Compared to MSU the campus population is considerable lower. MIT has about 4,000 underclassmen whereas MSU has about 45,000! These 2 schools seem to be very different but both are excellent schools!

Now to figure out when to go to MIT for a visit! ... I wonder if we could take a train there?! hmmm...

Be blessed!
Diane

Hitchhikers!

Just wanted to put a shout out to all of you about some people that have been seen hitchhiking recently! BE CAREFUL... they kinda have shifty eyes and I'm not sure if they can be trusted or not!

I was just driving through our church parking lot this past Monday morning and BOOM... there they were!

I tell ya... guard yourself because you never know who'll hop on your vehicle!!!

The little one in the middle is the shiftiest one of all I think! She might be the mastermind!

Updating Awards...

Ok... now to get these awards updated! I so appreciate getting them and want to recognize those friends who have passed them on to me. Thanks so much all of you!!! (Please forgive me if you've passed one of these awards to me and I don't have your name included by the award - I really tried to keep it all straight over the last few months!) :)

"Berry Sweet Blog Award"

received from Jennifer, Kim & Melissa

"2009 Friendly Blogger Award"

received from Mari

"Zombie Chicken Award"

received from Mari

"Sisterhood Award"

received from Jennifer (?)

"Outstanding Bloggery Award"

received from Mari






"Makes My Heart Smile Award"


received from Mari

"Golden Heart Award"

received from Mari

Whew! I think that gets me caught up! Hopefully I don't get this far behind again! Again, thanks to all of you who passed these awards on to me!

Another driver in the family!

Tori started drivers training this week and will get to do her first hour of driving today! I'm so excited for her and I think she'll do very well at it. It's hard to believe that she's old enough for it but she is and that means I'm that much older too! :)

We got another car a couple of weeks ago that Mike is driving now and the kids have access to the Lumina. This makes life somewhat easier on me now that Logan can just take the car. He might just be doing some errands for me this summer... we'll see.

Be a blessing to someone today!

This part is especially for Mike! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY HONEY!!!! I can't believe it's been 21 years since we had this picture taken! I honestly have a hard time remembering my life before you were in it! Even though we've had a lot of ups and downs over these years, I know that I am right where God wants me and that you are my soul mate. I love you very much and look forward to spending the rest of my life with you! ~ All my love, Diane

Wow... I am so behind on this!!!

I am going to attempt to do better at blog posts but it's been so crazy around here and this is one of the first things to be put on the back burner. This means that I miss doing posts on all these crazy things that happen in my life and by the time I do a post, I forgot what I was going to post about! ;)



Today I'm just going to quickly post about my kids! Yesterday they had the undergrad awards ceremony at the high school. They did so well and I'm very proud of them!!! Tori walked away with an award for geography (oops! I meant geometry - my bad) and art! Logan took home awards for pre-calculus and chemistry! This was the first year that a test was given like this on chemistry and there were 3 top scorers. They had one each in the 70 percentile (bronze), 80 percentile (silver) and 90 percentile (gold). Logan took the GOLD!



Tori and Logan are both so bright and I'm am so thankful that they apply themselves and do the best they can do in school. I'm also glad that these awards are given to recognize those who excel in academics. After all, what are they in school for but to learn. Sports are an amazing part of school too but I hate to see this overshadow academics.



More stuff to come later. I have a boat load of awards that have been accumulating since my surgery and I need to acknowledge those too! :)



Be blessed today!