Happy 18th Birthday Bethany!

 


Happy 18th Birthday Bethany!!!

  • You are officially an adult and this post will be the last in a series of many wonderful birthday celebration posts!! What a joy to watch you grow into a beautiful young woman!!
  • You graduated high school ranked 9 with a 4.59 GPA!
  • You graduated with an AP Capstone diploma, an American Sign Language Biliteracy Seal, and a Fine Arts Seal. 
  • You were nominated by teachers, and elected by peers into the North Bay Haven Hall of Fame. 
  • You received multiple scholarships including the FL Bright Futures Academic Scholarship for full tuition, and the Bay Building Industries, Society of American Military Engineers, and North Bay Haven Spirit Scholarships. 
  • You were admitted into Auburn Honors with a scholarship, UCF Honors with a scholarship, FSU, and UF. You will be attending UF and majoring in mechanical engineering. 
  • You were section leader again this year for band. You earned a superior at district and state solo and ensemble. You were in all county band. You also got to go to NYC and march in the St. Patrick's Day parade!
  • You decided to form an Odyssey of the Mind team- Mellos in the Moonlight and Mom was your coach, We went all the way to Worlds which was an amazing experience!
  • You were active in our church youth group, went to Oakwood Experience at Blue Lake, and continued to grow in your faith!
  • You are part of a global penpal club and enjoy creating amazing artistic penpal letters and receiving mail from all over the world!
  • We lost Grandaddy this year which was incredibly sad; you are thankful for the years of great memories with him. 
  • You had your first job beyond babysitting/petsitting. You worked at the Science and Discovery Center's summer camp and it was a perfect first job!
  • You have so many amazing friends and we have loved that our home is so often filled with laughter and friendship!! I know you will do your best to maintain strong connections as you move to college.
  • You like geocaching, penpaling, Kpop, broadway musicals, travel, crafts, playing mafia, escape rooms, lego, mini brands, chick fil a, watermelon, capri suns, reading, listening to music, ladybugs, swimming, and going on adventures!
What a joy it has been to parent you the past 18 years! As you become an official adult, our relationship will change but I am thankful that we have many more adventures ahead! We're proud of you just because of who you are. No accomplishment, failure, success, bump in the road, trophy, degree, or anything else can change our love for you. The achievements are the outward things that we celebrate but it's really who you are at the core that we celebrate the most- and you are a peacemaking, accepting, always room for one more, loving, artistic, giving, humble, woman of faith. We are so excited to watch you go on this grad new adventure and we will be here cheering you on!!! 


UF Orientation

Band Senior Night

Missing Grandaddy but thankful for the memories

The cousin crew

Prom

Friends at your last band concert

Scholarship

Senior Awards



Scholarship

Graduation Party

We love our Miss Hannah!

Graduation Day with the family!

You graduated!!


Odyssey of the Mind Worlds at Iowa State

4th of July at the base













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