The Ferrantes: 06/14/2009

So much has happened since we last updated. We have been swamped and have literally had no time to update, so here is what’s happening:

Mike started summer school last month. He’s taking 3 physics classes and a medical Spanish class. Between school 6-days/week and work he really doesn’t have any free time. However, he has managed to find an hour every week to play softball with some guys he knows from work-but other than that his nose is buried in the books! He is taking the MCAT in August, so we’re hoping he gets into medical school this fall.

JaNae (thanks to Catherine) has taken up watch making. Beads and watch faces keep her busy at nights, along with rearranging the furniture in our house. She has been reading a lot lately and trying to stay busy. In an attempt to keep her mind fresh and exercise her thinking power, she took on a huge 1000-piece Dowdle puzzle. Just about every piece looked the same, but she finished! It may be a while yet before she undertakes a task like that again. She is also playing softball-for her work team. They (like Mike’s team) enjoy spending most of their game time playing defense.

We somehow managed to break away from the craziness that is our lives to get to Lake Powell with some good family friends. They all went down Thursday, but we were able to join them Friday night. We had a blast and caught up on some much needed R & R! Even though it was only in the 80’s, Lake Powell was really cold courtesy of the wonderfully rainy, unseasonably cool June we’ve had thus far. The water felt more like Flaming Gorge than Lake Powell. Even though it was somewhat overcast, we still somehow seemed to get ourselves sunburned. We had fun though. On our drive home, we (JaNae’s Dad to be more specific) got to change a blown out tire on the boat trailer just outside of Panguitch. It made for an interesting end to our weekend.

Now back to work, school and the business of life…..