Gawrsh, life has been busy! ( In a good way.) My oldest, Jonathan, who is almost 17 is busy with his music. He is getting ready to made a recording of a couple of his songs wih his band. He is a little bit sad, as his girlfriend (a girl I do approve of, thank heavens) left for Italy for a foreign exchange student program, and Jonathan is missing her. He doesn’t like to hear me say the old saying, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder." But I don’t think I’d like to have heard that kind of advice either, when I was a teenager ‘in love."
And then my daughter, Kendallyn, (in the picture below dancing with a *gasp* boy at her 8th grade graduation.) She’s certainly growing up. She just returned this past Friday from cheerleading camp at OSU. She LOVED it. She was so exhausted when she came home that she barely moved yesterday. I dont know why they call it camp, because it is all indoors…..in dorms. Anyways, the cheerleaders worked on routines for 12 hours each day.
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So next, my daughter, Myelie who is 12……..went to the Deschutes with her Daddy last weekend. She and my husband biked in 6 miles to fish for salmon. Myelie is such a trooper. She loves to do the outdoors stuff. They didn’t end up catching any keepers, but Myelie did reel in two suckerfish. On Tuesday, Myelie and Kendallyn are set to leave for our church girls camp. They are kind of not excited for it, but I know they will have a good time. (I almost got kicked out of church camp when I was their age(s) for my naughty pranks…shhhhhhhhhh! I am lucky my girls aren’t pranksters:)
But then, there’s Braxton, whose every day behaviour pays me back tenfold for my naughtiness as a child. Just ask my dad about that. He’ll be the first to let you know. (And he doesn’t laugh at those memories.)
Braxton is having himself a fun summer, despite his tantrums. We take him to parks a few times a week. He gets to go swimming at his Uncle Shaun’s apartments once or twice a week. He is learning to swim, or so he thinks. In sister’s arms:) Yesterday, Daddy, Jonathan, Myelie and Braxton innertubed down the Clackamas River about three miles. Lots of fun times!
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