Catching up with Brayden

Age:  15 years and 8 months
Height: 6 foot 1 and something
Favorite Food:  Just about anything.  He will eat it and love it. Tacos rank up there pretty high, though.

Brayden has been a busy boy.  He scored a perfect score on his geometry End of Course test.  He was supposed to be recognized at a school board meeting but the Superintendent's father died and it was cancelled.  He got his award at a big MAP (Missouri's big stakes tests) awards thingy.

Then, this spring he got to be a part of Academic week.  He has a hefty GPA and went to an honor's banquet dinner.  He earned his academic letter.  He now has one for academics and band.  He refuses to get a letter man's jacket until he can add cross country running to it because in his words, "Is just tacky...quirky."

 He has his driver's learning permit and now expects to drive me everywhere.  He drives us from seminary to school every day.  He drove us into St. Louis the other day and did a great job.  We survived, so did the car and Mom only slammed her foot on the imaginary brakes once, maybe twice.

At the reptile house with his sisters

On the stilts at the Nauvoo pageant last summer.  I think Brayden actually knocked his dad down.