2013 In Review (just posted a year late!)
Emilie: Played both indoor and outdoor soccer. She swam with the Barracuda swim team this past summer and then joined year round swim team for the first time and the team name for year round is Cape County Castaways, their colors are orange and blue with Emilie loves. She was Vixen in the 2nd grade musical.
Hyrum: Earned his Star Scout. He was in the percussion group Shere Khan and was able to perform at the State Convention with the rest of his group. He played indoor soccer. The biggest event for him this year was playing the lead role of Robin Hood in the school play. He also attended scout camp for the first time and made the discovery that mint lotion keeps the ticks away. He became a Deacon at church. He also finally had his opportunity to attend Camp Lakewood with the gifted students, which both of his older siblings had done in the past. Bryn got to attend as a chaperone and they had a great time up in the woods by a lake. In the Fall of this year, he started Junior High where he joined BETA clug, served as a library leader, did mission possible team, and was Student of the Month in PE. He played viola in orchestra and did percussion in band. He also joined year round swimming.
Reed: Played indoor soccer which he loves, and was a member of student senate. As part of senate, he helped with concessions, hanging a chandelier for a big dance, and Special Olympics. He was a varsity swimmer on high school swim team and was all conference. He also played on the tennis team. He took German at school and then started learning Chinese. He also was a member of BETA club, FBLA, and the Chinese representative for World Language Club. For Model United Nations, he represented the country of Bolivia. He attended a Leadership Conference on scholarship at Westminster College. He focused on percussion for music. It was a big year of getting his driver's license and all A's at school. He is ranked in the top 5 in his class. He asked Jaycie to Winter Ball but it was cancelled due to bad weather. He had the opportunity to attend EFY for the 2nd time.
Mallory: This was a very big year for Mallory as she graduated from Cape Central High School. She received awards for 1st place in the region for Ceramics. She had to have a tube put in one of her ears, like little kids do, because it filled with fluid in the inner ear and would not go away to the point that she couldn't hear. She also was awarded a scholarship in music and cello to SEMO. In addition she had a Regents Scholarship and a Bright Flight Scholarship which would have totaled about $15000 had she gone to SEMO but she was accepted to BYU and felt good about her decision to go there. She also was blessed with a great summer job at John's Pharmacy and and an anonymous scholarship for $5000 which allowed her to go to BYU. As a Senior she was able to be part of the SEMO Symphony and shortly after graduation she was able to travel with them on a performance trip to Washinton DC and New York City. She took a summer honors course at BYU and then started her Freshman year at BYU. She lived on campus in Heritage Halls and was able to room with her cousin, Dominique Temple. She was blessed to get a job working at the BYU faculty center like her father had done before her so many years ago now. She dated a nice young man by the name of Kent Coble who served his mission in the Philippines. By the end of the year she was filling out her papers to serve a mission.
Kevin is an Associate Professor at SEMO and continued to serve as First Counselor in the Stake Presidency as well as early morning seminary teacher for Reed. In addition, he served as Chair of the Compensation Committee and had 2 papers accepted for publication.
Brynda had fun attending the State Music Educator's Convention with her friend Kristin Condie and watching the kids perform with Shere Khan. She was even able to sneak in a tour of Bride Cave which she enjoyed. By a strange twist in circumstance she got got left underground for awhile by herself but she enjoyed it since she likes caves anyway. She continued to teach gospel doctrine for the 3rd year and she also continued to work as a volunteer with the ESL program at the Adult Learning Center. She also helped at the Humane Society as a volunteer and helped with Nativities around the World at the Church. She was lucky to have a personal trainer who tried to help her get in shape.
As a FAMILY: We enjoyed helping out at the Food Bank, Back packs for Fridays, and we also helped with Feed My Starving Children. WE had our house for sale but it was not meant to be. We also lost our dear neighbor Cleo. We were blessed to make some new Chinese friends. We all attended the Dice Tower Board Game Convention in Orlando, Florida which also serves as a back drop for yearly Dickson brother reunions. All of us help work the convention. On November 16th, we adopted a new family member! a dog named Charly!
Charly: Charly was born July 8, 2008 and is 3/4 lab and 1/4 bull mastiff. She weighs about 100 pounds and is an indoor dog. Brynda met her when she was volunteering and quickly realized that Charly was fully trained and a wonderful dog. She managed to convince Kevin to let her get a dog even though we had never had a dog before in all of our married life. She has truly become a part of our family.
