Adam's 8th grade

Adam had a great 8th grade year.  He had a couple of interesting classes that he got to take at the school.  The first was TV broadcasting.  The kids learned how to use cameras and put together a news cast, and then halfway through the year, they got to do the announcements.  Adam preferred to be working behind the camera, but he did get to be in front of the camera doing announcements a few times.  There were only 8 kids in the class, one of which was Ben, who was also in our ward, so he got a chance to become good friends with Ben.  He also took beginning theatre, which was taught by the same teacher.  He didn't like that as well, but it was a fun elective.

In Boy Scouts, he made it to Life Rank.  He's starting to get old enough to not enjoy Scouts anymore, but he is very close to getting his eagle, so hopefully he will finish that soon.

 He officially started acting like a teenager this year.  We often would find him around the house in random places looking like this.

In his advanced science class, he had the chance to participate in a district wide robotics competition or the science fair, and he opted for robotics.  He had a great robot, but it broke right before competition and so they didn't do so well.

 He grew a few inches too!

 All year long, he had private tennis lessons.  When tennis season came, we forced him to try out.  Of course he made the team.  I'm not sure that he liked it more when he was done, but he had some good experiences.

 At the end of the year, his school did a fundraiser color run.  Michael said he wanted to run with me, so I signed us up.  Unfortunately a campout came up and he wasn't able to go, so I begrudgingly convinced Adam to do it with me.  When he got there, he found some friends to hang out with and I ended up running the race by myself.

 These kids weren't too sure that they would want their picture taken.

This is how we looked when the race was over.

 Here is a snap shot of Adam after school on the last day of school.  (It rained and he had just walked in from riding the bus).  Compare that to the cute picture of him on the way to the first day of kindergarten.  A lot of change has happened in those 9 years!