Family
We've had some pretty entertaining outttings this year. We went to the Hill Field museum.
The kids went to the trampoline park many times.
Oh and how can I forget the master bedroom flooding. Due to a small crack in the caulking around the soap dish in the kids bathroom, water had been able to work its way through, down under the tub, and pool against the wall, seeping in to the master bedroom. After some cutting, fanning, and fixing, the leak was stopped and restoration work began.
Mike
If you know me at all you'll probably have a pretty good idea on what I'll be posting. Dead critters. I had three hunting tags this year. Two of them have been filled, still working on the archery elk tag. I may just have "tag soup" on this one. With all the year end festivities it's getting hard to find time to get out. For some hunting stories on this years hunts, refer to previous blogs. Needless to say the elk and deer I've shot this year have made really good hunting stories and have been super tasty. There was also an excellent fishing excursion to the Boulder Mountains, (also can been seen in a previous blog on toolyfolk.blogspot.com)Kathleen
All of her time has been devoted to graduate school at the University of Utah, in Speech Pathology. This way, after my accident(s), she can help me learn to speak again, assuming she wants to hear from me. She is totally rocking in the program, getting excellent marks as well as having supervisors tell her she's going to be a great clinician. As she sits at home, working on different methodologies to use in her clinics, I am astounded at the depth and uniqueness of each curriculum she comes up with. Each client requires specific care and she is able to come up with a program for each individual, based solely on their needs.
The whole returning to school thing was a brutal decision to make. Some of the kids in her program are barely older than Ashley. Looking at the bigger picture, it was seen as necessary for Kathleen to enter the workforce. Much to our dissappointment weddings, missions, and college have a tendancy to not pay for themselves.
Recently kathleen passed her Praxis exam for speech pathology, so assuming she can pass her last class she will be good to go.
Ashley
A Senior at Clearfield High School, Ashley is giving new meaning to "tearing it up" at school, currently holding a 3.95gpa and scored a killer 28 on her ACT. Also, thanks to concurrent enrollment and AP courses, she has all ready completed a semester of college course work. Way to go Ashley!
Ashley has decided to go on an LDS mission, and as such, will only be able to get one semester of college in before leaving. As she is all ready enrolled at Weber State (from her concurrent enrollment classes) she has opted to do the semester there.
Ashleys art and piano work have also grown this past year. We all really enjoy her music filling the house, as well as the masterpieces she creates on canvas.
Emma
Emma is still a dancing fool. She attended some competitions this year, where she got creamed, but we'll still keep her anyways. I'm not sure if it is a good thing or bad thing, but even though she got creamed, she still qualified to go to worlds competition in Dusseldorf April 2014. Currently we think we are attending. It will be a great experience for her, and hopefully the past competitions have given her the motivation to step it up.......literally.
Like Ashley, Emma is tearing it up in school. Currently a sophomore at Clearfield HS and having a great experience there.
As you may recall, Emma also obtained the title of Miss Teen Syracuse. This was a good program for getting Emma out of her shell. The once shy girl has been replaced with a confident girl.
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