Last Day Of 10th Grade/Sophomore Year

Well, she did it. She made through 10th grade. She made it through her first in-person high school year. She made it through Covid dips and spikes - wearing a mask for quite a bit of the year without complaint. She made it with one-way hallways and 727 kids in her 10th class alone. She tried new things like culinary class and theater class. She did a lot of volunteering for Beta Club. She got in the top 40 for her class for her first semester of sophomore year.

She finished with straight A's for the whole year. I am curious as to where she will rank for her second semester of her sophomore year, but we won't find out until she gets her report card. Even if she doesn't make top 40 again, I am so unbelievably proud of her.

I cannot believe she will be entering her junior year next year. Only two more years left before college. I am not feeling ready for it at all. It feels like a long time since she started kindergarten but it also feels like it went by so fast at the same time.

Here she is on all of her first and last days of school.

Kindergarten and 1st grade...

2nd grade and 3rd grade...

4th grade and 5th grade...

6th grade and 7th grade...

 

8th grade and 9th grade...

 And finally...

10th grade...

My friend Kelly and I set up a carpool for our girls (Bri and Meredith) this past school year so we didn't have to go to the school every single day. I really enjoyed taking these sweet girls to and from school (I'm going to miss it next year)...

Unfortunately, Briana won't be turning 16 until the school year starts. That means - she misses out on getting a school parking space for her junior year because she won't have her driver's license yet (parking spaces are assigned during the summer and parking spaces are really hard to get at a school with so many kids). I might be able to get her daily parking passes once in a while, but those are super hard to get as well. Meredith just got her license and will be able take herself to school, but Georgia kids can't have friends in the car with them until they have been driving on their own for 6 months. Hopefully after the probationary period, Bri can bum a ride off Meredith to and from school next year so I can take a break from going to the school to get her!

  Here is a picture of Bri looking cute about a month before the end of school...

Here was one of her art projects for drawing class (pastels)...

This is her yearbook...

I picked Bri and Mere up early from school on the Thursday before Memorial Day weekend (after their finals) and they were both so happy to be officially done with sophomore year.

That night, Doug and I took Bri to our favorite Louisiana-style restaurant for dinner to celebrate. We hadn't been there in over two years (I am so happy to be able to taste and smell again)...

Seafood fondeaux, hush puppies, shrimp and scallop pasta, popcorn shrimp ~ it was all delish!

We are very happy that summer break is finally here. We have a few cool things planned and a lot of doctor and dentist appointments to get through while we are on our break!

 Starting today - Tuesday - Briana will be taking a classroom driving course (virtually) for the rest of the week (to go toward her Joshua's Law requirement). Wish her luck!

Happy summer break!