This page was last updated on December 20, 2009.

Zachary, Jesse, Lauren, Rachel, Trey, and Cody - December 2009.

Lauren (14) is halfway through 9th grade, and has maintained her 4.0 GPA.  She is participating in forensics as well as this year's defending state champion Future Problem Solvers team.   Lauren did well enough point wise on the school equestrian team to earn a letter, however being her first year on the team she was not eligible.    Jesse (13) is in 8th grade and is not as enthusiastic about her school work as Lauren, but she still manages to produce mostly A's on her report cards.  She continues to improve her Cello skills, and is juggling her schedule so she can continue in the Orchestra for the full year (she must test out of Health or take it via summer school in order to stay in Orchestra).  Much to Nicole's pleasure, she has also gained an interest in playing volleyball, and has participated on several rec-league teams with an eye toward making the school's team in January.   Jesse competed on the school's Jr. Equestrian team in the fall. Trey (7) is in 2nd grade, and remains the social butterfly at school.  When forced to concentrate on his studies he does well.  Zach (6) is in kindergarten (he has a late birthday so we thought he would be better served starting with 'young fives' at 5 instead of kindergarten).  Zach was always on pace scholastically, but he is fitting in much better socially this year.  If he continues we will likely seek to have him advance to 2nd grade in the fall.  Both Trey and Zach repeated their activity slate of baseball, flag football and basketball this fall/winter, and we have again signed them up for swimming lessons.  Rachel (4) is attending morning Pre-School 3 days a week and is loving it.  She finally has some friends her own age.    She played soccer in the fall, and is playing basketball and taking swim lessons this winter.  

Skip made it through the series of 2009 headcount reductions cuts at GM, and is hopeful the actions set in place this year will start to bear fruit in 2010.  Nicole continues to manage and grow her business.  We are hopeful the economy here is SE Michigan will turn around soon.

Anyway thanks for stopping by.  We added a lot of new photos since the last update.  Maybe sacrificing the goal to add captions will prod us to post updates more frequently.

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