The month of May has been a blur-- not for the same reasons as last year, though! Without a graduate, we find ourselves much less busy. It's mostly because we've been in a time of transition again! Ella is home! However, a two week sinus infection that kicked my butt and kept me in bed for several days, finishing up school (while writing sub plans for some of those days, grrr), closing up my classroom for the summer, and taking AP and final exams for Delia has kept us from doing super fun things with her. She's getting lots of time to rest and recharge and connect with her old high school friends. She started some of her online summer classes too. She leaves for her summer job already on her birthday! Yesterday was the last day of teaching for me and attending classes for Delia and each day I feel a bit better, so hopefully we'll have 2 weeks of amazing quality time together before we have to say goodbye again.
Before she left school, she and a good friend did a cute photoshoot around campus. All of Ella's exams, even her hardest ones, went great! She finished with an impressive GPA and a lot to look forward to next year! Bidding goodbye to the friends for a few months was hard, but they had some fun adventures before they parted-- like trips to the LA Zoo and Long Beach Aquarium.
As the stories from the school year trickle out of Ella, we just thank and praise God again for clear calling, providential dorm placement, the strength and clarity of mind to kill it in those tough pre-med classes, and the amazing people He surrounded Ella with. It was the best year and we've already discussed how dropping her off again in August won't be sad at all.
Dave did something kind of fun when it was time to move Ella out a few weeks ago. He took a whole week of vacation and did a little SoCal baseball stadium tour! He saw a San Diego Padres game at beautiful PetCo Stadium.
An Angels game at their old, iconic park (right by Ella's school actually).
And a game at historic Dodger Stadium on his last night in LA.
Ella and Gideon actually joined him for that game for a last date!
It was an exciting extra-innings, walk-off-win game with fireworks on the field at the end of it! A truly grand finale for Ella's first year of living in LA.
Dave got bit by the baseball stadium touring bug now! We won't travel just for this, but he said if we're ever in a place vacationing or visiting family (like Denver!), he wants to make seeing a game there a priority! He works hard; I'm glad he could have this week of fun enjoying something he loves.
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Ella is such a beautiful young woman; she could be a model. I am so glad to hear that her first year was a great experience, and that she did so well! And happy that Dave was able to take some well-deserved time off to enjoy some of the ballparks. I pray that you all have a great summer!
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