Willow: End of 8th grade

Willow had her last middle school choir concert. Mr. Bartley has always raved about how talented their grade level is. He gives them harder pieces and challenges them in a lot of ways. They had a great performance!

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Here's the link for the school's videos. 

She was surprisingly emotional after the performance. She's chosen to be in the Performing Arts program at Burton next year, which prohibits her from being part of the high school choir due to having to take PE. Being part of the middle school choir has been such a great experience for her!

 Some of her choir friends before their performance:

The 8th graders had a fun afternoon outside to celebrate. Willow didn't take any pictures (gasp!!) but thankfully got this picture that a friend took.

They may be headed off to high school, but they still enjoy sweet innocence on the trampoline!

We had double graduations to celebrate this year! We enjoyed having family over to celebrate them both!

I hope this still fits when she's a senior!

The 8th grade graduation was held on WebEx. The first 15 minutes was breaking up so bad that you couldn't understand a single thing they said. Then they made an announcement that they'd heard about the choppiness and were going to speak slower. They did for a few minutes, which was a lot better, but then they forgot and it broke up a lot. Watching the closed captions wasn't helpful but did add a bit of humor to it. Willow was sitting just in front of the computer recording so it was fun to catch glimpses of her every once in a while. She received an award for All As, a presidential award, and the superlative of "Most Likely to be President." 

We're ready for time to slow down a little bit!!