Basic Training Update

Nick is completing his third week of basic training at Fort Sill, OK. From his letters and weekly phone calls, he is adjusting very well to the Army life. In fact, he says he is bored. The physical part of the training has not been challenging to him (no doubt it is because he has always been so athletic and while living in Las Vegas, he hiked, scaled the cliffs while mountain climbing, and snowboarded...a lot) and most of the other stuff has been...in his words, "common sense". Overall he is doing very well.

Here is a recent picture from Basic.

Graduation Day!

Miranda has graduated! Yep, one year and eight months early, she has graduated. She said when she first got pregnant that she did not want the baby to be a reason why she didn't get a good education. I am very proud of her. She has worked very hard to accomplish her goals of getting her diploma.

She will officially "walk" with the Class of 2011 at Saginaw High School in June. Until then, her plans are to take a class in the Spring at the Junior College so she can fimilarize herself with the structure of college life and she plans to take more classes in the Fall.

Congrats, Miranda...Keep up the good work and keep working hard.