Two Princes and a Princess in the Kingdom

National Honor Society

Wayne has been very busy doing all these almost grown up high school things. In addition to being the track team captain, taking all honors classes, 3 AP classes, band and jazz band as independent study, he has also taken SATs, been asked to the Junior Prom, and joined National Honor Society.

We dropped Heather off at her softball game and scooted over to the induction ceremony. We had almost forgotten about the ceremony, but luckily, Joanie remembered but went a night early. She called to tell us what she had done, which put it back on our radar.

Congratulations Wayne! We are very proud.

May, So Far...

Spring has been very late coming to our area. A couple of weeks ago we still had snow on the ground, and although that is gone now, we have had cold temperatures and rainy days. It has made attending all these sport events a true labor of love.

Wayne and teammates warm up for some events at the Twilight Meet at South Burlington High School.

Wayne clears 5'6" in the high jump.

Here Cole runs the 100M. He seems to be leaning more towards the sprinting events lately.

At the Twilight Meet, Cole set a school record in the 800M with a time of 2:07.

Wayne runs the 400. I will have to update this with his time.

Cole and friend, Grant Laclair.

At an after school meet at North Country, Wayne runs the 100M. Again, I will have to update with his time.

Cole is #1 in the state for Division III in the 400 with a time of 53.59, fastest by 2 seconds.

At the North Country meet, Wayne won the 800 by a looong margin.

This year he has tried a few new things such as javelin and shot put.

They won the 4x4 relay

Meanwhile, Heather and her Tar Heels AAU team went on an overnight trip to a Rutland/Castleton tournament. They thought they would meet up with some tougher teams, but they won every game they played, and won the tournament in their age division.

Here they are wearing their championship t-shirts. The championship game was very close. They won 12-11, with one of the Lowell girls making a foul shot with 20 seconds left in the game. Heather said that during that game she had made a left handed lay up, and also made 2 foul shots that "swished."

One of the Lowell girls got special permission to invite the Tar Heels team to her school's semi formal spring dance, which was held in Paris, France.

A fun way to end a great season. Now Heather is moving on to softball. Stay tuned.

More photos available here:

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and also here:

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April

First thing in April, of course is Cole's birthday. He turned 15 this year. Can't believe it! We had lemon cake with lemon buttercream frosting with Grammie and Joanie.

We did not have 15 candles.

He got some gifts including a computer, a basketball, and lots of money from generous relatives!

Heather finished up the Jr. Hoops and Middle School seasons of basketball, only to start the AAU season. AAU stands for Ameature Athletic Union. The teams have nothing to do with school towns or districts. Heather's team is called the NEK Tar Heels (I have no idea why). They consist of 6 girls from Glover, 3 girls from Lowell, and 1 girl from Brownington. They only lost a couple of games early in the season, before really coming together as a team. With some great coaching and a lot of really smart girls, they became one of the strongest teams in the area.

We had tournaments every weekend for almost 2 months - each time 2 games on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. Easter weekend we only had Saturday games.

There were tournaments in Brownington, Lyndonville, the Lamoille area, and Barre/Montpelier area.

This is the gym where Heather broke her arm last year.

The Tar Heels have the prettiest uniforms in the league.

Sometimes we had several hours between games, and were too far away to just go home in between. On this occasion, I took Heather and her friend Kelby to "Get Air,"an indoor trampoline park and then out to pizza. It was an outing Heather had asked for back on her birthday.