busy week!

The kids were finally back in school last week after a couple of snow days. They timed them just right, though, so we don't have to make any up yet, as they just happened to fall on already scheduled days off. If we miss anymore, they'll just take a day off our Easter break (we get the Thurs, Fri., and Mon. around Easter off-that's our total Spring Break). The Thursday is expendable, and they have taken that off to make up snow days before so they don't have to add any on at the end, because heaven forbid, we actually go past June 6.

Anyway, I already showed Sarah in her class play. It was very cute, and Sarah did a great job.

On Tuesday, Alisha and Emily went to Clayton for Large Group (band and choir) competitions. Then Emily and John went to FFA Regional events. John's Parlimentary Procedure team came in 2nd, and Emily's quiz bowl team came in 3rd. Bottom line, they don't go to state. Better luck next year. :-) (A couple of weeks ago, however, Alisha had FCCLA competition. She did a report on Interpersonal Communications and got a gold rating, which means she DOES get to go to the state competition in April)

Thursday was Daniel's birthday. 5 years old! He was lucky that pre-school didn't have school that day because it was Kindergarten registration day. We went to lunch with my friend and daughter before we all went to the school for registration and screening. He just missed points because he didn't put ears on his picture of a person, and had problems with his 'a' and 'e' in his name. Those will come.
After registration, school was over and it was time for Girl Scouts. We did a service project for the food shelf. We made birthday boxes. We decorated shoe boxes with tissue paper, and then in each box, we put cake mix, frosting and candles. The food shelf people were very excited about them.
That night we had Daniel's special dinner (tacos). We then cleaned up and had presents. He got a red Transformer and a red bear (his requests), and the quillow from Grandma Danielson.
We took a break because we had seminary at our house Thursday night because of some scheduling conflicts this month.
When Seminary was over, we had cake.

Friday, Daniel didn't have school again and we went to Stillwater to go shopping. He got a toy space shuttle with his money from Grandma Harvey, which is his favorite toy out of all his presents.
In the afternoon, Alisha had an ortho appt. and Sarah got a filling.

Saturday, John, Alisha and I went to Duluth for Super Saturday. Our last one of the school year. Again, we didn't win scripture chase, but the kids had a blast. I had teacher inservice. The kids then watched videos that each ward and branch made of them selves over the year.
Richard took the other kids to Hudson to get a load of pellets for the pellet stove.

Yesterday was Ward conference. I was part of musical numbers for Relief Society and Sacrament Meeting. We love having our stake leaders here, even though some of them live so far away (the furthest yesterday was about 3 1/2 hours away, but our stake goes up to Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada--about 8 hours away). We also had a potluck lunch afterwards. I made mint brownies and mini rueben sandwiches.
In the afternoon we babysat a 2 yr old and a 6 month old. It gave us insight to how our life would have been like with 2 more kids. Alisha and Emily did most of the work yesterday, however.

My parents are moving away. They finally got within 5 hours of our house, and now they are going back to Memphis. I'm probably the one that's most upset about it... Jeff and Steve are thrilled, I'm sure, since they already live there. Maybe they will visit more often once they live further away...:-)

Guess that's all for this week.
Patti