Samantha is 15, and a Sophomore in High School. She has a great fear that she is average. I, however, do not think she has anything to worry about. She is a great girl who really knows what she believes in and stands for. She attends Church at 6am each morning and still has amazing grades. College seems so far away, yet so close. It is hard to balance texting, facebook, picnik, football games, church dances, stake youth committee, spirit days, itunes, chores, sleeping, clothes, and more clothes, along with homework and thinking about college. I keep trying to encourage her, but I am afraid I am a nag at heart.
Outwardly I want her to go off to college and be wildly successful, but in secret I want her to fail for the next 10 years so my baby will not leave the nest. First of all I cannot believe that I am this old. But most of all, Samantha is a great help at home. I know I can trust her with anything.
A drivers licence is around the corner, I'm not sure I can cope with this fact. I gave her, her first driving lesson the other day. She preferred NOT putting on the gas pedal. She liked the speed that you get when you just coast with the emergency brake off. Ha, I only wish this were going to be the case for years to come!
Samantha had a very busy summer. She enjoyed Youth Conference and Church Girls Camp. Once again...I was there, I so very much cramp her style. I'm not so sure what we are going to do about this, but I really try to keep my distance. She is fun and has plenty of friends, so I hardly even see her the entire time we are there together. This year at Girls Camp she did a four day backpacking hike. I worried like only I have been able to master. I figured after I didn't hear any helicopters the first day (I was at base camp) so she had probably made it past the worst part. I was right, she is a trooper, and even came marching in on the fourth day with a super huge smile and a smell like no other!
At Youth Conference she showed off her super powers by performing in the talent show. Although she can play the piano very well, clap very loud, and play the trumpet, she chose a more elusive talent of hers. Pi. You know 3.14159265358979323846264338327950 etc....... Samantha can recite this for about 135 places. She wow'd the crowd with, what must be, a Hancock trait. I do know that it is certainly not average. The entire family was able to go to a Hancock family reunion in North Carolina this year. It was so much fun for all of us, but I think Samantha had the most fun seeing her cousins again. She is fortunate to have so many close to her age, they all had a lot of catching up to do. After a week in NC we visited our nation's capital, and we were there in eye shot of the Washington Monument's fireworks on the 4th of July. Amazing—that's the word for it—it being the traffic. Oops, I mean it was amazing feeling so patriotic with all the other citizens of the great USA. If only it hadn't been 100 degrees at 10pm. But being with Rick's sister and brother along with their families made it cool!! We tested our powers to think cool thoughts, but we were able to visit the Capitol, Library of Congress, Holocaust Museum, Declaration of Independence, all the Smithsonians, and the place they make your money. I say your..cause I'm all out. It was a great trip and I am so glad we got to do it while all four kids are young, they were troopers.
So an average girl would've sat around watching Glee and pined over some stupid boy. Not my Samantha, she is a super great girl, who I want to keep around for as long as possible.
Oh-I almost forgot, she went with some friends to Disneyland this year too!
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