Kelsey started the month in Lexington, KY with the DCA Drama team competing in the High School Festival at the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC). The team finished 2nd in the Tennessee Theatre Conference and were one of 20 schools competing at the SETC. Kelsey did not have an acting part in the play due to conflicts with soccer last fall when they first performed "Flowers for Algernon". She was responsible for selecting the costumes for the play and handling the costume changes during the play. However, she did get an opportunity to audition for judges and representatives from the drama departments from several colleges across the country. She performed a monologue and sang a song and got 32 callbacks from the schools. She received several scholarship opportunity offers and really enjoyed meeting representatives from many of the schools. She was excited and really surprised at the interest in her acting. She has always felt that her singing was her strongest asset.
I took a couple of days off from work during Courtney's Spring Break. One day we went to Montgomery Bell State Park and spent time with Phillip, Tanner, Trace, Jim & Phyllis. The kids rode bikes, played on the playground, fished, roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. The other day we were invited by Dr. Churchwell at Vanderbilt to participate in a "Day on the Hill". Vanderbilt setup booths in the Legislative Building, provided breakfast, and asked us to be available to speak with Representatives about how the hospital had made a difference in our life. We met several people and had a good time there. We agreed to help them again in the future if they needed us again. Later in the day, Phillip and the boys came here and met Courtney and I and we all went bowling.
I went to my first Predators game of the year with some colleagues from work who were visiting from Chicago. We saw them win a great game in a 5 - 0 shutout. Kelsey went to a lockin with her church Youth group.
During Kelsey's Winterim break at school, she got to do some job shadowing at Vanderbilt. Since she is taking Dual Enrollment and Advanced Placement classes, she didn't get out of her classes like other students and thus only got to shadow 2 days instead of 4. She did 1 day with Speech Therapy and 1 day in the PCCU. She really enjoyed it and learned quite a bit from the people she worked with.
Courtney's school got free ticket vouchers from the Predators, so we were able to get 2 tickets to 2 different games down the playoff stretch. Courtney had trouble for the first bit of both games with the noise, but after she adjusted, she really had a good time and took lots of pictures. The Predators won the first game in a shootout, but lost the second game.
Courtney and I went to Sweetwater and spent a weekend with my family. She had a great time playing with Madison. We went to the Duck Pond one day and they ate lunch there, fed the ducks, and then took a walk around the path and the track at the community park. We went to church on Sunday, went out to eat for lunch, and then they played some more before we headed back home. Jennifer stayed home because she had been invited to participate in a parent panel discussing the special challenges of raising a special needs child. She also went to TPAC and saw "The Color Purple".
Kelsey drove herself to Jackson during her Spring Break to spend a few days with Christy & Phillip and the kids. While she was there, she did some aerobic training with Christy, played paintball with Phillip and some youth from his church, and also took a campus tour at Union University, since that is one of her college choices. She had a great time and got back home safely.
Throughout the month, Courtney has continued to bowl on Saturday mornings and Kelsey is very busy getting ready for the Spring Musical in April.
I can't believe it is already April. I don't guess I have to tell you that it will be busy also. :-) Thank you for your concern and interest in keeping up with our family.
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