Our Criminal Justice Bad Ass!

 

A newly permitted driver in the house!

Lily officially has her Driver's Learner's Permit!  She completed her 30-hour class and took her driver's permit test a few weeks ago.  She had her first formal driving lesson with an instructor last weekend and has been doing some light driving around neighborhoods and short roads.

A very Covid Christmas and a Happy New Year

Unfortunately, this past Christmas was not the fantastic family experience we were all looking forward to this year, as the Covid pandemic continues to rage, but we made the best of it!  Poor Lily came down with a headache and low-grade fever Christmas Eve, and a rapid test confirmed Christmas morning that she was indeed positive for COVID-19.  Thankfully it was a very mild infection and she was bouncing back after 2 days!  Thankfully, my sister and her family had already canceled their flights due to the overwhelming cancellations of flights due to lack of staff because of Omnicron, Covid and we are able to protect my dad.  I'm not sure if the rest of us had it or not, because access to testing was extremely limited.  

 

 

Lily started driver's education online during the break and has reported that is soooo boring.  She goes to take her driver's permit test on Saturday!!!!

 

 

Girl finally got sprung free for New Year's eve and got to go spend the night with a girlfriend!  Girl was a trooper during quarantine!  Thankfully midway through her quarantine they reduced the time from 10 days to 5!  Yipee!!  Like the virus cares right?? LOL

Anyway here's to a happy and hopefully healthy new year!

Some glimpses of age 15

I tell you, this girl has it all going on! She's smart, sexy, super fit and strong, beautiful, and at least from my perspective she appears confident in herself! Last night was her soccer banquet where she was recognized for her participation in the LHS JV soccer program. She totally rocked her little black dress! It was fun to see her recognized for all her hard work!

 

Also, since we have located Lily's biological mom, we have sent a yearly Christmas basket.  This week, we received updated photographs of Lily's birth family.  Unfortunately, because so many families need to receive baskets, we only received photographs, but not updates.

Great Growth Opportunties

Lily has been very fortunate this year to be a part of the Career and Technology Center, Criminal Justice Program. Sure she learns many important things from English class and Social Studies class, but a lot of real-life learning is taking place in the Criminal Justice Program for sure. Not only are they training her for a future in some type of law enforcement/criminal justice, but they are teaching her life skills of leadership development and public speaking just to name a few. Yesterday, Lily competed against 22 of her classmates in a simulated dispatch call and she placed 6 out of 22, earning her the opportunity today to compete at the next level. Regardless of how she performs today, we are so proud and excited about the opportunities she is receiving to stretch herself!

Meeting the boy

Since the beginning of the school year, there has been a young man in Lily's classes who has taken an interest in her.  They have enjoyed time at homecoming together and met up at a football game.  I am sure they talk and Snapchat each other all the time as well. She had been asking about possibly going out on a "date" with him so after some contemplation we decided that we wanted to meet this young man first and so we planned a family date last night.  Got to give the young man credit, he did well meeting his interest's parents.  We had a fun time going to eat dinner and going to Spinner's pinball arcade (vintage pinball machines and arcade games like Atari, Sega, PS4, etc.  As well as old consoles such as Pacman, Pong, and Frogger, just to name a few.  Then before we took him home we enjoyed an ice cream at Dairy Queen.  A fun night was had by all.

First Homecoming

Lily and her good friend Dorothy from their AWANNA and CCM days, went to homecoming together.  It was the first homecoming for both girls.  Dorothy because she is a freshman and Lily because there was no homecoming last year due to COVID and fully virtual learning.

Both girls looked lovely in their chosen dresses.  I couldn't get over how strong, sexy, and beautiful Lily looked.  She totally rocked her dress!  At the homecoming dance, Lily reported running into her soccer friends and being asked to dance by a boy who is in two of her classes named Raymond.  I think both girls had a really good time!  I am so glad they went together!

Dorothy also got Lily to go to her first homecoming game the evening before too!  Lily is gently easing into all the fun activities of a true high school student!

Lily and Dorothy

Lily rocking the strong, sexy, sophisticated, and beautiful look