Mary is a SENIOR!!!!

OK I planned on writing more then "Mary is a senior", I just got distracted by Kathryn.  So, Mary started High School today as a senior!  Yeah that's right!  In Minnesota Mary is a junior, in Montana Mary is a senior.  We were super freaked out when we went in to see the junior counselor to plan Mary's schedule and she looked at Mary's transcript and said "your not a junior your a senior, there is no way around it!  You need to get senior pictures done asap and I will change your graduation year to '09."  What????   Mary and I just sat there in shock and let her give Mary a class schedule.  When we got to the car Mary said " I feel like crying" and I said "I am crying" and Mary said "great now I can't cry because it would be weird if we both cried at the same time!"  She cried later in the evening when I wasn't looking.  We are over the initial shock and called the school back and redid her whole schedule with out the confused haze and with the help of the senior counselor.  We are starting to get excited and to talk about taking the ACT and what might happen next year.  We are worried about seminary, because Mary won't be able to get 4 years in and graduate, bummer.  In MN you need 30 credits to graduate HS  and in Montana you need 22.  Mary has 16 already and can get 7 this year if she wants, she is going to take 6 credits, only 3 are needed for graduation the rest are electives.  Mary is taking precalc. as an elective and she found out today that she can get credit at the University for it.  Yes, I have asked that question of 5 different people including the principal and was told you can't get college credit for anything in Missoula, "we don't have anything worked out with the U like that".  Well I guess they have something worked out with the U and Mary is totally psyched!   Mary has been telling everyone we meet "I am 17 and I'm a junior"  now she has changed that to "I am  16 and a senior"  Chris and Mary will try to do some senior pictures this week end.  Mary said it will be totally fun if she chooses for it to be.  Words of wisdom from my 16 year old, if you know Mary you know it could go either way, totally fun or torture...