Brief family update:

Bruce:  About to finish up his 2.5th year with IPS.  This year he has worked at Margaret McFarland Middle School.  It was an alternative school for 6th grade students who, for various reasons, were not succeeding in a traditional classroom.  It has been a tough year for him.  However, he's been happy with IPS and he did get to teach what he loves--Agriculture.  (Last year he taught Bio at Arsenal Tech.  He loved Tech but isn't as crazy about the Bio.)  The alternative school is disbanding so next school year he will be placed elsewhere at IPS.  Prayers for a great position are welcomed!

Bruce is also president of the soil and water board for Fountain County.  He's gardening as per usual. 

Me:  I just finished my 7th year back at SEFE.  I've now been a speech-language pathologist for 17 years!  (You'd think I'd be good at it by now, eh?)  I'm playing piano for church full-time, vice president of the Hillsboro Harmony club, and secretary for Psi Iota Xi.  Mostly I drive people places, though.

Andrew:  He just graduated 6th grade with all A's.   He was in both math bowl and spell bowl this year.  He got 2nd place in the state for crops judging.  Soon it will be time for soccer!   I'm excited about a computer camp he's going to attend at Purdue this summer.  Hopefully he can learn some programming skills.  His dream is to be a video game developer.

Erin:  Just finished 4th grade, also with all A's.  She went to Dream Dance studio this past year and loved it.  She is competing now on the Fountain Aquatic Swim Team (F.A.S.T.)   Soccer will start soon for her, too. 

Family:  We currently have 2 dogs, Echo (outside) and Duke (in/out/in/out/in/out).  We also have 2 cats, Cookie and Marzipan.  Erin is trying, extremely unsuccessfully, to get us to take on ferrets.  Or hamsters.  Or fish.  Or guinea pigs.  It's not going to happen. 

We will be going on a family vacation to Fort Wayne later in the summer.  Our last four vacations have been sans Bruce so we're excited to have all 4 of us able to go!  The kids and I went to North Carolina over spring break.  We want to go back; it was lovely. 

We have now acquired 3 different properties (New Richmond, Roachdale, and rural Attica) and are renting out the houses on them.  Hopefully all of this will pay off in the retirement years!

OK, boring update over.  Erin has decided she wants to blog as well so you can catch her at "All the 'normal' days of my life". 

Jill