Fall is here with a vengence - and the snow has already been flying. Actually, I think we skipped Fall this year. It was not nice - had a big freeze - all the leaves were gone within a couple of days. It's going to be a long winter.
Tom and I got a little reprieve from the cold as we were treated to a trip to Hawaii, compliments of Paul and Amber (thanks to you two - it was an awesome trip!!!) I will have to do another post telling about our trip and giving some pictures. If you are lucky, it will get posted before next year!
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Preston has been pretty much absent from our lives. He has car keys and he knows how to use them. Actually, he's been very busy with Yearbook duties, running his school newspaper, he's an avid member of the FCCLA club and he's Keaton's official chauffer - I retired from that duty (there are some benefits to having a teenage driver!). He has also visited several of the area Community Colleges and a couple of the Universities to get a feel for what he wants to do next year. He's still pulling for WSU and hopefully that will work out for him.
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Keaton... well, what to tell about Keaton... He started wrestling practice this week. He's gained weight, now in the 150 bracket, so we'll see how he does this year. He's getting lots of excersize at practice and lots of being ground into the mats. Silly kid, he seems to like it. He has also been playing a lot at the ballgames in the Jazz Band. Lots of practicing for the Winter Concert, too. He is still in Driver's Ed, but getting closer to finishing it - we hope. I must appologize to any facebookers who have been the object of his postings (a bit annoying at times). That comes from his father's side of the family - ha ha!
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Winston is improving in school. We think he's doing great, and making great strides but he is still behind his classmates in reading and math. We recently started working with 'Touchmath' with him, and I recommend it highly for anyone teaching the basics of counting. He's getting a lot of support at school for reading, he's in the Title 1 program and also gets some tutoring on the side. It's helped a lot. We found out this week that he is far-sighted and has a stigmatism in one eye (one of his eyeballs is more 'egg' shaped than round). This could be part of his reading problem. He will have to have glasses to correct it. This does not bother him in the least.
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We are looking forward to having some of Tom's family here for the holidays this year. Paul & Amber family and Marcia over Christmas. Then Brien & Kari family for New Years. It will be a lot of fun getting to see them all again.
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