Weekend Adventure

     Had a nice few days off with the family this weekend and we did some cave exploring and hiking in the trails of the Withlacoochee State Forest. A lot of walking I admit but it was nice weather and we all enjoyed it so I just thought I'd share some pictures here.

     More pictures of this weekend have been posted on the pictures page (Link on the right side in blog)  If you'd like to come along with us on this adventure and view my manatee experience look for the video link on the right as well.

Report Cards

     Just wanted to blog as a proud parent to two wonderful youths. (kids is not politically correct)  Both Austin and Tricia made A B honor roll.  

     Tricia's is working on her up coming Tropicana Speech with a funny and catchy topic "Surviving the Snore" about how she deals with a house of snoring people. She says I snore, however there is no proof of this! I still wish her luck.

     Austin's application for AES is in and application deadline is April 6th and we have been told we should receive a notification sometime in the middle of April. We hope he gets in but there are only 50 openings for students for the entire county.  They say it's a Lottery picking system to get in, however I think there are students that are qualified more than others.  Such as higher GPA's, teacher recommendations, student and parent interests (engagement) among other factor's.  Here again we wish and hope for the best for him.  He will have a good freshman year regardless.

Austin Art

Austin's art on display at the mall. A nice award that his art was chosen from peers to be one of a few from his school. He did't think all that much of it, so he says.

     Later tonight is his high school open house where we are planning and hoping to get answers to a lot of questions for both us as parents and for him as the student. We are planning to explore both campuses. We applied for him to attend the Academy of Environmental Science Program (AES) and have not got acceptance yet. So at this point we don't know what school to attend at open house. AES or Crystal River High. (CRHS) (AES is a program offered at CRHS) As we understand, this allows Austin to participate in CRHS soccer program which is also a major important issue for Austin. We have been told that if you attend the open house at AES You have a bigger and better chance of being accepted. Open house at AES is from 5-8 and Crystal River is from 6-7. We will post more about this subject on his page.

Video on Austin's Page

     Placed 1st in the boys Long Jump for Citrus Springs Middle School at it's first Track Meet against three other schools including Lecanto Middle, Seven Rivers Christian and The Villages with the record jump of 16ft 3 inchs! Check out the video on Austin's page.

IT'S OFFICIAL HE'S OFFICAL

     Austin took the test today in Brooksville and passed! So I want to congratulate him here by posting a picture of his achievement.