Blog or Brag?

Today was Morgan's eight grade graduation and awards day. This morning they had an awards ceremony for all the middle school kids to recognize achievements during the school year. Morgan was one of about 12 kids to receive the President's Education Award (signed by Barack Obama himself). And then, Tonight there was a graduation mass at which all the eight graders received certificates for completing 8th grade and 2 eight graders were presented the "Father Kuemper Award" which is considered the top award a Kuemper 8th grader can receive. As you can see below, Morgan was one of the winners. Another proud moment!

Photos

Hello all....

Our photographer put our pictures up online.  Just wanted to let you all know just in case you wanted to view them.

http://www.justinsalemmeyer.com/      

then go to view galleries

Hope you are all having a wonderful summer!

Kuemper Dance Team Tryouts

Morgan will be in high school next year and had the opportunity to try out for the high school dance team, Kuemper Kix. The tryouts were last weekend and they had four judges come in to view each dancer individually and judge them on a number of skills. Nineteen current dance team members and new dancers tried out. Morgan wanted to be in the top 6 so she would have a chance to compete for the all state dance team and solo state competition. When they posted the scores on Monday, Morgan found out she had the highest score of any of the dancers. She was number one!! We are very proud of her and are ready to watch her excel in high school and participate in all the different activities it has to offer.

Tyler's Confirmation Name

Tyler was confirmed this weekend and I wanted to tell you all what name he chose as his confirmation name. Sorry Joe, it wasn't Fabian. Mary and I hadn't been involved in helping him choose a name and when we asked him this week what he chose, He said, Patrick. We asked why and he said, Because of his Irish heritage and because his grandma's name was Patricia. He does make us proud. Most of the time. How about that confirmation outfit. Oh, wait that is the spring play.

Wedding pictures

Fun times at Emily and Trent's wedding!

Thank you one and all for celebrating Emily and Trent's wedding. They arrived in California around 1 pm on Sunday, but it took them a long time to get their rental car and get through San Francisco. Last I heard, they had about 3 hours to go. I'm sure they were exhausted.

I trust that everyone made it home safely. I had a burst of energy when we got home, as did Jim. He mowed the yard and I got everything put away. Now it's time to start making out the wedding guest list for Megan and Alex's on July 17, 2010.

This week-end we move Megan's things from Cedar Falls to Iowa City to a storage unit until July 31st. She'll move into her Iowa City apartment then. In the meantime, she is subletting an apartment in Cedar Falls while she is working at CVS Pharmacy in Waterloo. I didn't realize it was graduation at UNI on Saturday. The traffic will be awful. We've rented a U-haul trailer. Every time we move these girls, there's more and more to move.

Well, just wanted to thank everyone again for coming and making it such a special time.
Love, Chris and Jim