Our Week

We have had a full and very good week. Olivia had her ballet recital this weekend. One performance Friday night and two on Saturday. After her last recital on Saturday we went out for ice cream. As we get into the van she loudly proclaims, "I love being on stage!" I am sure she gets that from her Aunt Nancy (We love you, Aunt Nancy!!!) I got all teary eyed watching her - she had such a fun time. Her dad bought her a bouquet which she adored! Now her ballet takes a break for the summer.
Caleb had a baseball clinic this past week. He has decided that he would rather play baseball this year instead of soccer. Tomorrow he has a uniform fitting and finds out what team he is on. The season starts next week.

Andrew is still opting for soccer this year and his season also starts next week.

Awana finished last week and the awards ceremony is this week. All three of the kids finished their books this year. Caleb is getting an award for finishing all of the books in the Sparks program. He will begin the T&T program next year - which he is very excited about.

Gerald is leaving Tuesday for Mexico. He is flying into Guadalajara for a week of fact finding meeting with missionaries of other missions. From there he will fly to Chihuahua, also visiting Delicias, Cuauhtemoc, and Juarez before arriving in El Paso to fly back home. Yes, there is some concern about the Swine Flu and they will evaluate the situation tomorrow before they leave on Tuesday. We took some family pictures today after church so that he can pass some out to our friends there. Olivia wanted to wear her crown from her ballet outfit to church today. And of course, Lobo, had to get into at least one picture as we did purchase him in Mexico.


Last Thursday the kids had some friends over. Their parents were in Ethiopia picking up their little guy that they are adopting. It was a privilege to help them out in this way. After playing outside for awhile they were rather toasty and ended up on the couch playing the DS. I came in to find them looking like this:
We have two weeks of school left. Yahoo!!!! We will finish before Gerald comes home from Mexico. We are in wind-down-mode as the kids are just reviewing in most of their books and not much teaching is taking place. Olivia has commented almost every day this week about how few pages she has left in her books. The kids have worked hard and we are all looking forward to finishing and enjoying some time off.

Well, off to enjoy the rest of the Sunday afternoon with the family!

Sandy