I am not so good at keeping this blog up these days!  We feel like we don’t have a down moment often but life is good!  The girls have had wonderful springs…here’s a little of what’s been up:

Bailey danced in 3 dance competitions in Myrtle Beach, Smithfield, NC and at Kings Dominion, just outside of Richmond.  She has loved every minute of being on a traveling competition team.  She has grown physically this year…I am just a little taller than her but she’ s not far behind.  She’s had a good year at middle school.  She’s always been a social butterfly.

Avery is playing t-ball for her schools’ 5 and 6 year old team.  They haven’t had a real game yet, but she is enjoying the practices.  We had to buy her a pink batting helmet, so no worries about her being a tom-boy!  She loves dancing and has been asked to audition for the traveling mini-team for next year.  She’s also very ready to play soccer again in the fall.  She has been doing a fantastic job in Kindergarten and loves reading!

Madi had surgery to repair her ruptured ear drum in March.  We still haven’t had the follow-up hearing test to see if all the hearing loss has been recovered, but she seems to be hearing much better.  We are so thankful for all that she can do with her muscular disability.  She is amazing! She is still taking dance, but says that next year will her be last.  She wants to take voice lessons and try out for more plays.  I can hardly believe that she will be starting middle school next year!

Julia has been very busy.  She was on the Battle of the Books team again at her school and once again, they won the county competition and came in 2nd at the state regionals.  She also was in the Wayne All-County Middle School Band.  This year, she received the 3rd chair (our of 18) for clarinet.  And, she is also playing soccer for her middle school team.  This was the third year that they were undefeated…until last night!  They lost to their rival 3-1.  We went to visit C.B. Aycock High School’s Open House this week and she has been working on picking classes for next year…unbelievable!!  I know that she is ready for this jump, but I’m not so sure that I am!

Thayer and I have been super busy at church but also took some time to fix up our house…we have devoted so much of our time to the church building over the last two years that our house needed attention.  My mom helped jump-start the process while she stayed with us for a week after Madi’s surgery.  We are so thankful for her cleaning all the windows, baseboards and everything else in her path!!  We did some painting, a lot of cleaning and organizing, and we are putting our house on the market this coming week.  We love this house…our girls have grown up here and we’ve lived here 6 years.  But, the time has come to find a home with a downstairs  bedroom for Madi and we need one more bath room…those middle school girls sure do spend a lot of time in there!  It may not sell right now and that’ s ok because we don’t have to move.  We just thought we’d put it out there and see if someone just loves it enough to buy it for what we want!  So, in addition to everything else, we now have to keep a house in tip-top shape everyday!

Hope you’re doing well too!  You may not hear from me much…the end of the year activities are already starting and I’m counting down the days until summer!

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