Greenwood/Crozier

Hello Everyone,

I hope this finds everyone well. We have had a cold winter, by North Carolina standards. We had about 3 significant snowfalls, the most being about 8 inches; I know for those of you in the north and mid-west this is not much, but.....

Caryn is a senior vocal performance major and had her junior recital this past December. It was beautiful to hear her sing and to hear how much her voice has grown. Next week she will be in the opera "Elixir of Love" as one of the 2 female leads. Mom and Dad are driving down to see her performance which means a lot to her. She has decided to audition for the AF Singing Sergeant's next year. I would say we, as in Dad, Jim and I, but it was an outside opinion-her voice professor who helped her make the decision with the same arguments we used. Colleen is a sophomore by year at NCSU, but will be a senior by credit hours. She remains dedicated to her future as a vet, Dean's List all 3 semesters and straight A's last semester. It is so wonderful to see them grow and mature into beautiful, capable, caring young women.

Christmas was wonderful. Mom and Dad came down, picking up Chaney and Blaine (Jeff's girls) along the way. Jeff and his fiance, Kacy joined us from Texas with their dog, Sasha. We had 10 of the 2 legged variety and 4 of the 4 legged variety making it a little hectic and noisy at times. It was wonderful to have everyone together at the Christmas.

The summer will find the Crozier's quite busy. One week after school ends for Colleen, she will be off to Namibia, Africa for a 3 week study abroad and will then come home to do an unpaid internship with an equine vet an hour away. This spring break has found her getting shots and malaria medication for the trip. Three weeks after she gets back Jim and I will be heading for a river cruise down the Danube in celebration of our 25th anniversary in October. Caryn will be living in Boone while she continues to sing and get paid at a local church and hopefully finds another job during this economy. Job hunting has been difficult due to all the snow they had up there. I think the public schools had only gone to school for about 5 days by mid-Feburary. Caryn's spring break felt very short as she stayed at school to sing and then came home for a day and then left for the beach for a couple of days. She is 22 and an adult as we are frequently reminded and I guess as she is about ready to graduate next year we are getting a gradual dose of decreasing visits from her.

It has been a great week; sun, warmth, trees budding overnight and the birds singing. The unfortunate problem this spring has been a new guest in our attic! A pregnant squirrel who has built quite the nest in our attic and is very adept at avoiding the traps. Colleen would like to re-habilitate her and or one of her babies, but I have quickly and definitely nixed that idea.

Happy Spring,

Lisa