Happy Birthday, Mom

Happy Birthday, Mom!  Hard to believe it’s been five years since we celebrated your last birthday.  We had an awesome day in Attica.  Most of your sisters were there and we had a great day.  Little did we know that would be your last birthday with us.  So much has happened in the last five years, I don’t know where to start.

Madison is graduating in less than a month!  Where has the time gone?  Madison has grown so much and is a very pretty young woman.  She has really buckled down her Senior year and has had a great year in school.  She is very conscientious about her studies.  We have an honors banquet coming up.  The school honors the students who have been on the honor roll the previous nine weeks.  Madison is very proud of the fact she has been on the Honor Roll throughout high school.  I believe there are seven or eight kids in her class that will have the same honor.  It is pretty awesome.

After she graduates, she plans on going to Northwestern in Alva.  She wants to be a teacher!  I think she will do an awesome job.  She really does good with young kids.  She has been a teachers aid this year, helping with the third grade.  We are really proud of her.  This is such a bittersweet time.  We know she is ready to go to college, but it is going to be such a big change.  I see great things in store for her.  She is going to be a big success.

Wow, what can I say about Hannah?  I really don’t know where to start.  She is so competitive in everything she does.  She has played some sort of competitive sport for several years now.  Last year as a sixth grader she started volleyball coming off the bench for the varsity, ended up playing quite a bit and lettered.  In basketball, she started every game as a varsity member.  The team wasn’t too successful, but they gave their all.  She also ran track and lettered in track as well.  Three varsity letters as a sixth grader!

This year volleyball started out very well.  They ended up winning the league tournament!  Then in basketball, they had an awesome year.  They won the league tournament in basketball as well.  Hannah started every game, but one.  Five eighth graders started that game.  Now she is doing track.  Time will tell how they end up.  She pulled a muscle in the first meet and has had to sit out a couple of weeks.

She is also doing very well in school.  She really holds herself to a very high standard.  She took great pride throughout volleyball and basketball season to maintain an A in every class.  Both of the girls were also Cheerleaders this year.  They were both very busy.  I don’t know what the future holds for Hannah, but whatever it is, she is going to do very well.  Oh, did I mention that Hannah had a formal dance this year?  She looked very pretty and Susan and I got to chaperone!  We had a great time.  Hannah is also a very pretty young lady and is really growing up fast.

I know you are watching over the girls, but I really wish I could share their accomplishments in person with you.  Susan and I are very, very proud of our girls.  They have really grown up well and as you can tell, we are extremely proud of them.  Love ya, Mom.  I miss you.   Ivan