Category: Talia

Talia aced her permit test and got her driver’s permit today. It is more than a little scary to think about your child driving. I’m sure she will be a great driver. It’s all the other crazy drivers out there that I worry about.

Talia was so excited to get her braces off. She has had them for a very, very long time. Checking back through my blog, I see that she got them on September 16, 2006. Here’s a picture taken the day she got them on.

I can not believe that Talia is a sophomore! Before I know it she will be headed off to college. She has a hard schedule this year with AP Chem, AP World History, Honors English, Alg 2/ Trig and French. I’m sure she will do great. She is super smart and works very hard.

Talia is growing up to be such a beautiful young lady, both inside and out. She is not only beautiful but smart and caring too. I know that she will do great things one day.

Talia had her 15th birthday party today. Everyone met at our house for pizza and cake, then it was off the ice rink. Everyone had a great time!

Talia started high school today. She is going to the school just down the street from the school Jared, Riley, Aidan and Kayli go to. That makes it easy for me to drop her off on the way to taken the other kids to school. We had to do a transfer to get her into that school, since we live out of the boundaries for that school. Our home high school is in a totally different direction and it would have been very difficult to get her to school each morning. Plus, her best friends were all going to this school and she really wanted to go there instead of our home school.

When she picked up her schedule a few weeks ago, they had her down for Japanese and World Geography Honors. She did not want either of those class, having put down French and Theater as her electives. We talked to her counselor about it and she was very happy to see that her final schedule has French and Theater and not Japanese and World Geography Honors. She has a few friends in some of of her classes, but not many. I’m sure she will make new friends though. Her locker is by all of her best friends, so they are able to meet there at lunch. She already had homework today and did it without to much complaining.

Here’s some more of the pictures we took before she left for school this morning.

Talia’s 8th grade graduation mass was held this evening. It was such a lovely ceremony. It was somewhat bitter sweat as this will be the last time we will see some of these kids that Talia has gone to school with since kindergarten. We are happy that several of Talia’s good friends will be attending the same high school with her next year.