Oh My! Has it been awhile or what?!

Okay, so now you all know my big secret (if you didn't know it before)! I am lousy at keeping up on any kind of correspondence: journaling, letter writing, calling, and now blogging! I have good intentions, but you know...

Anyway, our big news is... Tyson has a new job! He is now a APFO. Bonus points for anyone that can figure that out without me telling you what it is.



Keith is still doing great in Kindergarten. Math and science seem to be his strong suits, but I did get to read a poem he wrote the other day, and it was very original. Very different from all the other kids. He is a great helper and loves to be outside. He (and I) are very anxious for summer to get here. We will be grateful for spring too, but really up here it isn't that long. He asks all the time if we are able to have a picnic outside yet. Well we still have quite a bit of snow in the front yard and it is only about 50 degrees during the day, so we haven't done that yet. But he and Rachel have been going out to play and jump on the trampoline and they are so happy to be able to do that.

Rachel is growing up- maybe too fast. The other day I called her Rach (as we often do), and she looked at me and told me she didn't like it when people called her that. It isn't her whole name it is just part of her name. So I told her she has to let people know that if she feels that way. However, I haven't heard her mention that to anyone else yet, so we will see. She loves it when we have preschool and it is here at our house this week and next. We have been talking about animals and today we did some sea diorammas. She really enjoyed doing it (as did all of the kids- very creative and no two were alike). She is not as ready to jump in and help as Keith, but she likes to work alongside me and Daddy. I just have to remember to make sure and give her chances to help. I think helping me cook is her favorite thing to help me do.

Thomas is getting so big! Especially in the last week, because we cut his hair last week. I wasn't wanting to, but it was getting pretty long and lots of food in it. I wanted it to stay long enough to see his curls, but doing it with scissors is hard. So Tyson convinced me to use the longest blade on our clippers- 1 inch. Not long enough to see any curls. I was close to tears the first few days after we cut it. But it has grown on me now, and he is cute, but older. Not the same little baby that he was. He is a bigger boy now. And hopefully his curls will grow back. He walks, and babbles. We are using some signs to help communication and he has please, more, num num, night night, and of course hello and good bye down. We are working on more, but these are our main ones right now. He has 9 teeth in. He likes to bounce and dance. When he hears music on that moves him, he dances to it. Kind of like Keith used to do when he was little. He loves to be held and runs to see his daddy as soon as he walks in the door. He is his daddy's boy, but mommy works too.

I am keeping busy with everything moms do. The catering business is more like a hobby thing. We get some jobs here and there, mostly for my dad's office. Which is fine with me. Life has seemed to crazy to do much more than that right now. We never had our friends move in. They chose to go somewhere else. We were going to remodel since we had done some moving things around, but with limited income for Tyson's training year, and available time going to be at a minimum, we probably won't get started with that for a while yet. I still have 3 callings at church- choir director, ward music chairman, and enrichment leader which keep me busy. One of these days I am going to get my house the way I want it, my scrapping stuff available, and some time to myself so I can get some fun things done. I'm not sure when, but one of these days.

Well, I guess that is our quarterly update, so maybe now that I have started, I might keep it up. We'll see....

Maybe I'll post some pictures, although dont' know how recent they will be. I need to download pics from the camera. We lost it for a few days on a mountain, but we got it back and I need to get the pics from it. Haven't had a chance lately. Does that sound familiar?