Charlie's graduation

Actually, they don't really call it a graduation from 8th Grade to high school.  It's now a "Promotion"!

Charlie's trying to look very sophisticated here :-)

Speaking of promotion, Charlie was actually promoted to Accelerated Math in the middle of his year this year. Very proud of that!  He's still playing the clarinet and looks like he will still be in band next year.  Perhaps he's just hoping to make those big trips - for example, there was a trip to London a few years ago and then another year, there was a trip to Disney World?!

In the meantime, Charlie has a couple of junior golf tournaments coming up this summer, PLUS a first and only attempt at Drive, Chip, and Putt and he will age out this year.  GOOD LUCK to Charlie!  But all this prep is really to get him ready for the high-school golf team try-out.  He has definitely improved and gained a lot of strength since last year, but as everyone knows, there's so much to learn in golf! If he'll only listen to his mom more :-P