Hey Buonos!!

Happy 27th of May, fellow progeny of Alphonzo and Maria! I know I haven't been here recently, been busy on Facebook and with church and Scouts....but wanted to let you un-Facebooked among us know what's been happening here in rainy Georgia!

John's last day of the 3rd grade was on Friday, if you can believe that! On Thursday, he was given the following awards: Merit List (all As and Bs all year), the REACH Award for Speech (there is one regular REACH winner from each class, and only one speech award given for the whole grade) and with this award, he and I got to have our hand prints added to the REACH wall outside the cafeteria at the school, and also a cool gold star pin! He was given a Speech Student of the year award, and a "High-Tech" award from his homeroom teachers for being the most knowledgeable about the tecchy stuff they use in the classrooms.

He scored an 807 on the GCRCT in Math and a 776 in Reading. 800 is baseline, so he did pass his math, but not the reading portion..normally, this would force him into summer school and having to retake the test, but since he's still considered "resource" this has been waived for him, and he's been placed in the 4th grade. I had him placed because his reading level has gone up 2 grade levels since the beginning of the school year. He's been working really hard this year and has just shown awesome improvement this year in his new school. We've been re-districted though, so next year he'll be going to the brand new elementary school right down the road.....

Aaron's still at the plant, he'll probably be carried out of there toes up....gets stressful at times, but he does seem to love what he does, so if that's the case, so be it. He was nominated for the company's Safety Committee, and from what he said yesterday, it sounds like he was approved for it. The committee travels to all of the Harcros facilities to do training and inspect them and make sure they're up to Federal standards. More travelling for him, but it gets him away from the everyday stresses here that he has with his older kids. He's also volunteered to be a teacher at VBS this year at church, which should be interesting, plus he's the Cubmaster of John's pack.

My elbow surgery went ok...the first one was kind of a bust (literally!), started leaking joint fluid from it, so Doc had to go back in and fix that problem. Seems to have taken ok, not in near as much pain as I was before in the ol elbow. I'm currently awaiting 2 more procedures, one in my shoulder joint to put in new anchors and tighten in back up, and one in my bicep to re-attach my biceps tendon that was attached there a few years ago in a tendonisis procedure. Still out on disability (yippee for me, right?) but it gives me a chance to spend some more time with John this summer, and we don't have to worry about the cost of day camp. I'm doing crafts at VBS this year (I'm still trying to figure out how THAT happened!) and I'm the Pack Trainer for Scouts, I've been helping our District Exec from Council with some stuff, and hoping to be nominated for Order of the Arrow this year, it's a pretty big deal, so keep your fingers crossed!

That's about it from here....will talk to you all soon!

Love and miss you all!
Cheri