March 18th

Hi All,

Hope this finds you all doing well. We are all staying healthy here. Knock on wood, no one has been sick in a while.

The last month has been a good one. We enrolled Dylan in preschool for next year. Some days he is excited about it, some days not. He will go 4 days a week, but only go half days. I am hoping that this will break him in for Kindergarten, when he has to go all day.

We had Kristian's parent teacher conferences last week. He did well again this 9 weeks, but did drop in 2 of his classes. But still managed to hang on to A's and B's. He teachers had high praise for him, except for his Math teacher, but... I have had issues with her from the get go, so I think it is more her than him. And I am not the only parent who feels that way. We got Kristian a cell phone last month. My main reason was because I will have to drop him off at soccer practice alone while I take Dylan to his soccer practice and I wanted him to be able to get in touch with me if he needed to. He was in shock when he got it!

Mike worked some REALLY long hours this past month. He spent a week and a half working from 6 to anywhere from 7-9 at night. Right after that he left for a 6 day trip to D.C. He came back on a Sunday and then had to work the next day. But he did get to take a couple days off at the end up the week.

Last Friday we took the boys to ITZ. It is a new family fun center that opened last month in the springs. We had a great time. I won 504 tickets on the Deal or No Deal game. That was fun. They have different rooms to sit in and eat while you are there. The first time we ate.... we sat in ToonLand. It had cartoons playing on a big screen. After we played games we grabbed some dessert and sat in the Drive In Movie room and just happened to catch Back to the Future at the beginning. We ended up staying and watching the whole thing! We spent the rest of the weekend doing nothing! It was GREAT!!

Next week is spring break! YIPEE! Mike's mom is flying up on Saturday and is spending the week with us. We are all looking forward to it. The boys have been thinking of things to do while she is here.

We are spending Easter at the Bowen's. They are putting together the scavenger hunt for this year and promised to make it difficult for the kids. They always figure it out way too fast!

So I made a big decision this past month. I decided that I wasn't going to watch Tracy's kids next year. It was a tough decision for me to make, because I LOVE the kids to death. But it was what I wanted to do and as the days go by I have no doubt that it was the right decision.

Again, no pictures this month. I know I am getting horrible at this blog thing! I can't believe how I haven't been keeping up with it! But SURELY with Easter, Mike's mom visiting and spring break, I will have lots of pictures to share next time, whenever that might be!! Hope everyone has a very Happy and Blessed Easter! Take care.