August 17-September 4, 2011

Hi everyone--

The past few weeks have continued to be a blur for us... Chelsea has had several tennis matches, amassing a great record of 6-2 thus far! She has also attended her first two parades (Parade of the Hills in Nelsonville and Washington County Fair in Marietta) as Athens County Junior Fair Queen, and she has done an amazing job of representing the fair. She's off again tomorrow to the Old Settlers' Day parade in Jacksonville, and she has three more events next week-end-- YIKES!

Emmy has been busy with soccer practice for her traveling team and starting AWANA. Ellie-Kate started AWANA too, and she is enjoying her time as a Cubbie :)

Britti has been in transition as well. She started a job as a leasing consultant for an apartment complex in Athens, and she plans to finish her thesis in the fall and then start more education classes in Winter Quarter. Hopefully, she can become certified to teach in Ohio (as well as Texas) so that she's REALLY marketable in a few years. Her boyfriend, Ramon, moved to OU so that they could be together (awwwwwwww...), and he is very nice. He is very sweet with the little girls, playing soccer with them nearly every day.

The younger three also started school during this time frame-- Chelsea Meagan began her senior year-- wow... Emmy started sixth grade, and Ellie-Kate went back to pre-school. Fortunately, all of them really seem to enjoy school, their teachers, etc.

This week-end was extra fun and exciting because we were joined by the cousins and Aunt Teresa and Uncle Jeff. They drove over on Friday night, and they came with us to the Washington County Fair parade and fair. They loved getting the candy and seeing Chelsea in the parade. They also enjoyed riding rides, eating fair food, and seeing new things, like a tractor pull and a sheep show. It was fun to share a county fair experience with our cousins from the city :)

Hope that all is well with everyone! More soon-

Christie