proud daddy... :)

getting away from sea cadets a bit. i forgot to mention that in september she started her freshman year in high school. she decided to go to a technical high school and is taking welding shop (along with all honors classes). so far she loves it. she has two other female freshman in that welding shop. the two instructors seem to really like the girls being there. sound like they are leading the way too, which is pretty cool.. the freshman boys are playing catch up..lol. the three girls seem to have a goal of out doing the boys in shop with them and if the other two are anything like rylee, the will not allow anything to get in their way of what they want to do.. its pretty cool to see.

she also made the volleyball team (never payed before) and when that season was finished she tried out and made the basketball team. i was joking with her basketball coach and said if she gets out of line to just smack her arouns a bit. he says , are you kidding? she is my tasmanian devil out there. i love her on defense..lol being a feshman with not a lot of experience she hasn't gptten too much playimg time but she is determined to kick *** and with actual good coaching now i believe she will thrive.

with all her sports, sea cadets and work (closed for the winter now) she still managed to make honor roll. to say i was impressed is an under statement, she had a rough month in math the first month or so. her middle school did not prepare the kids very well for high school. the math teacher recommended that she drop down out of honors. the counsular talked to rylee. rylee told her that she wanted to stay and that she was getting it. i think rylee took it as a personal attack. she ended up with like a 93 in the class for the first marking period. her comment was "and she wanted me out of her class"...lol. i got a kick out of that.

older generations are so hard on the younger generation. bad mouth the hell out of them.. truth is, that if you look at any generation you'll find go getters and you'll find losers. just the way it is. if they got to spend a day with some of the kids my daughter is around for just aday or a weekend it think they my see the younger generation a little different.