The hollidays are quickly approching, and changes they are comming. To begin with they changed the wards up a bit here in Lawrence. We live two blocks from the old 2nd ward boundry which they moved two blocks on the other side of us, so we are now in the Walkarusa Valley ward. To add to this our little family has struggled to make it on time at 9:00 am for the last year, apparantly we failed the test and have been told we will take it again. We get a six week repreave and get to go, until January, at 1:00 pm then start the challange again for another year. I have always been a morning person but I live with four girls, wife included, that do not like to get up early on the weekends.

The girls are doing pretty good. they got their report cards yesterday and they both did very well. There was plenty of A's from both girls and only minor issues to work on. Sierra, being in virtual, school does not get a repot card, but is still enjoying school and doing pretty good.

Things are finally starting to calm down abit for Estella, her new software is up and running and she doesn't have to be at work for 20 hours a day any more. She will be traveling here soon though. She is still really enjoying her job and the people she works with.

This is a good week. Holiday yesterday, World of Warcraft expansion tomorrow and the new Jeff Dunham Christmas special. A good week indeed.

I hope everything is going good for you and yours.
C

If you are like me your free time comes in very small spurts here and there. I try read several blogs and a couple comics every day but forget some here and there and get tired of checking for updates to find that none have been updated recently(sorta like this one). I found a helpful website a week or two ago called bloglines. It is great, it allows me to add all the blogs and comics and websites to my list and then it tells me, either when i log into the website or through an application that runs in my system tray, when and which have been updated. It saves time from having to check site all the time only to find that they have not been updated.

Savannah and Sydnee are in Utah for the next 4 weeks, one week down. I have talked to them several times and they seem to be having a blast, I can tell because they don't really have time to talk to me. Tonight Savannah called me not to say hi or tell me everything was going good or anything like that mostly just to ask me to record "Camp Rock" Disney's new movie on The Disney Channel. That is it once I said yes I would record it for her she was done talking to me and wanted to go. Oh well like they say no news is good news I guess.

In the mean time Sierra is really enjoying being an only child for now. The only thing she is having to get used to is sleeping in her bed alone, she is not liking that.

It is a hard thing to put your two oldest daughters on a plan alone and then watch the plan take off into the sky and disappear. I know that they are safe and with people that love them and will protect them, but it is still hard. I have never, since either of them were born, been away from them for more than a couple of days. It will be good for them I know, but i do miss them.

Last Sunday morning the server decided it did not want to boot up any more. So I built a new one and with back-ups we lost very little. About the only thing we lost was being up last week. But we are back.

Estella's Surgery went very well. The doctor said that there were no problems during the surgery. It went a little longer than she expected but other than that it went good. Estella is doing good, very tired but doing well. I took the girls to see her after she had time to rest for a while. They where very happy to see that see was alright. While we were there Estella was very insistent that she wanted a popsicle and asked everyone of the nurses if they would get her one. After about an hour her nurse called the doctor and the doctor said that it would be OK. So Estella is doing much better now that she has had a popsicle.

Lawrence is infested with ants, little black ants. They are everywhere. We have had them every year and we just put down some ant poison and after a week or so they are gone, but this year we have put down several poisons and they are still everywhere. If anyone has any tricks to killing ants just leave a comment and let me know.

Today was the girls last day of school and they are excited that summer is here. They will be going to gymnastics camp again this summer and they are also on teams for the first year. This means they will be having gymnastics twice a week for two hours each, so they will be spending most of the summer in gymnastics.

Hope all is good with you!