Zack is in 10th grade and is taking his first AP course this year. He got his "temps" in September – yes he's out on the road - watch out!!! He finished 9th grade with the honor of being named as one of the top 25 in his class of over 675 students.

Zack is still into Rubik's Cubes. He participated in another competition this year and has an official fastest time as 18 seconds, but has continue to hone his skills and has since solved it several times in only 12 seconds. In order to step up the challenge, he has learned how to solve it one handed, then blind folded and finally underwater.

Jackie is in 5th grade. She is doing well and was accepted into the advanced math class. Her latest interests include rainbow loom bracelets, duct tape projects, and playing Minecraft with Zack.

This year Jackie ran a 5K with mom and dad in both March & July. Jackie then participated in the Girls on the Run program in our school and really enjoyed it – running 2 more 5Ks this fall.

She keeps herself busy playing with her good friends Katey and Abby, and of course spending time with our cat, Zoey.

We are happy to announce that Peter has made it through 2013, concussion-free! Unfortunately our furnace tried to kill him by filling the house with carbon monoxide one morning while the rest of us were at school. Thankfully we have carbon monoxide detectors so he came through it OK, but if you don't have any, please make sure you get some!

Peter is becoming more and more interested in watching what we eat. We have heard over and over about cancer-causing food dye, too much sodium and high fructose corn syrup. Given that Peter has managed to keep off all the weight he lost last year, maybe we should listen to him? It doesn't hurt that he still exercises 7 days a week, too!