Rosalia End of the Year Awards

Rosalia receiving one of her awards at the Awards Assembly for the school. She was also named Miss DHS. Stephen and Eric were both Mr. DHS, so it was good to have the girls represented.
Rosalia got a senior award, the most outstanding girl's tennis player and the Bob Huntington Award voted on by her teammates. David got this award in high school.
Here is Rosalia with her friend Taylor in my classroom. This is how the graduation gifts (personalized shower caddies) turned out that Bethany, Kimberly, and Rosalia worked on.
Rosalia is working on this dragon with her friends as her class's legacy. For those who know DeRidder High School, this mural is on the wall to the right when you come up through the glass doors.
IRosalia is petting the cat next to Jessica's rosebush that I transplanted from the back deck to the side of the oak tree in the front yard. I am very excited that it lived through the winter!

High Island Reunion

Here we are at our Norton April Reunion in High Island, TX

Janet and Carolyn in the shade.
Carolyn, Mom, and Paul. We had a great time playing horseshoes (I got a ringer and promptly retired),throwing washers into a tin can (Nana is the gold medalist in this sport) playing croquet (Paul won), flying kites (David's was the highest), taking lots of pictures, birdwatching, and just hanging out.
Rebecca, just returned from Madrid, Spain, with Rosalia and Nana.

Time in High Island

We went to the beach at High Island to fly kites and David had the highest one, the Hawk. Janet actually got her feet wet and Carolyn came in second with her kite.

Spring Break

We finally had enough dry weather to get our yard graded and sod put down. Now we have to get our fence fixed and grass seed down on the parts that weren't sodded. Janet and I also spent some time with our parents at High Island.

Conference Weekend

Brooklyn came to visit for the weekend with her mom and dad. Some of the flowers next to our patio and Janet's visit during spring break.

Spring is Here!

The azaelas are blooming and spring has come to Louisiana. We enjoyed Brooklyn's birthday and we are looking forward to all of our company. My sister Janet comes next week for a few days. We have our spring break right now. Then Rebecca returns from Madrid on April 8th. T.J., Bethany, Kimberly, (plus babies)and Stephen (and Family) are planning on coming down to see her. With Rosalia that will make six ch ildren here at home.

My play was successful at the Speech and Play Festival even though we didn't win anything, however, two of my actors won $1,000 scholarships to McNeese and they were very excited. We did get a good review and an enthusiastic audience so we are fired up for next year.

The last nine weeks of school is here (Rosalia has only 6 more weeks) and I have a Student Council Workshop, Student Council Week, Student Council elections, and one more play for the school by my Acting One class. Rosalia's last day of school is May 9th and her graduation is May 16th.

Betty in her living room and flowers from Bruce in the dining area.


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Flowers from Bruce and Janet to me, but the florist got the message garbled, "You're to sweet for candy, love Bongar!" I added the exclamation point, but kept all the misspellings! I made them call to make sure they had the right person since I have never in my life been told I was sweeter than candy!