6/8/05
Cierra had a great time at her birthday party. Many of her friends came to celebrate with her.
Cierra is currently going to summer school and taking drama and accessories galore. She is also attending vacation
Bible school this week with Morgan.
At the end of summer school Cierra will be in a play. Then the last week of June is Horse Camp (for the second
year).
And right now - today - Aunt Stayce has just left for the hospital to have baby Audrey! What an exciting month!
5/1/06
How Cierra has grown this last year! She's not looking so much like a little girl anymore. Its quite shocking to the
system -- especially for dad!
Cierra just returned from a 4 day tour to Chicago with her Chior. They had a national competition that they sang in.
She has lots of stories about Sears Tower and Shedd Aquirium, etc. They really kept the kids busy!
Cierra will be taking Art, Music, Spanish and PE at the elementary school next year. She misses the social aspect of
public school and Nebraska has a new law that forces the schools to accept the part time students now. Since she decided
not to go back to the Childrens Chior next year and I was having a hard time finding an affordable alternative, we decided
to take advantage of the new law. Since we were going to do that we threw in Art (which I currently pay for classes for her)
to save some more money, PE because she's not getting near enough exercise anymore and she loves Spanish so she threw that
one it. Her schedule will be interesting to see. I have a feeling its going to get complicated!
Cierra has taken many outside classes this year that have kept us hopping all over town. She takes a science class
out at the Homeschool Learning Center that has been an all year thing. She also goes to the Children's Museum every
other Wednesday for a math or science lab that they put on for homeschoolers. We also take advantage of the Fontenelle
Forrests homeschool classes (science/nature) but those are only 3-4 times a school year. Also, the Durham Heritage Museum
puts on a few classes a school year that she attends if she likes the subject -- last one was Latin Jazz and she had to learn
to dance with a boy! Quite a shocker for her! Her favorite was the science class which was all hands on stuff - making and
shooting-off rockets, building bridges, etc.
Cierra will also go to Florida in July with the rest of us. She will also be attending a YMCA horse camp. Usually she
goes to a Girl Scout camp but they arent doing horses this year. In June she is signed up for summer school to take
a publishing class (actually writes and produces a hard back book), a pottery class and a science class. Hopefully she
will get into what she wants -- slots are hard to get since it so affordable.
Cierra spent the year in the Children's Chior again. This year the schedule was very intense. She got tired about half
way through the year -- December was way over booked in my opinion. She also still does Girl Scouts and works on badges
at home alot to earn more -- and mom makes it easier by adding some of the badge work to her school day when it fits (I like
the health things in the GS book). Also, she continues to participate in the Mother/Daughter book club. The two of us
have enjoyed this one alot -- I highly recommend to mothers of girls to start one of these.
That about catches up Cierra's last year. She is turning into a nice young lady -- much less bossy than she used
to be!!!
