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Hi! It's been a while!

Things are good here. Let's see, what have we been up to....

Sam joined the swim team at the Y. He practices every Tuesday and Thursday from 4:30-6. Then they have meets once a month. We haven't done a meet yet though, so we will see how that goes! He loves it! It is a lot of work, but he is doing great. This will be his third week and there is already a ton of improvement. He has learned so much and gets better and better each practice. I love watching him. He has such an amazing work ethic. I already knew that, but it is really pronounced in this sport. He is always the first one ready to listen to the coach. He immediately does what she says, and works HARD to do it exactly how she said. The other kids will be playing around, and there he is practicing and doing exactly what he should. It is amazing to watch. He is such a good boy, and I am glad we found something he can do without all that running. His ankle still is not better. Yeah, he can walk on it, but he still has a limp, and it still hurts him, especially when we have to walk longer distances like at Target and stuff. I don't know what to do about it. We also just got his report card last week. He was one of only 5 in his class to get all A's. Go Sam!

Avery started the swim team too! That wasn't our intention, in fact, he was DYING to play soccer! Sam's first practice, Avery went and got in the other pool to play. After like 20 minutes he was bored and came to sit with me, watching Sam. He then asked if he could try. I told him he had to ask the coach, so he did. He went in and kept right up with the other kids! He swam like a 600 that night! The coach said he had a natural stroke and that he did great. She said he was ready to join if he wanted to!!!! He's 5! I couldn't believe it! Anyway, he changed his mind and decided to do swim team. That works for me. Less trying to juggle where they are going. Last week he didn't like it as much. It is hard. I can imagine! That is a long way for him to swim. We are going to cut his practices back to just an hour. I think he will do great though. What else? Hmmm. Oh, he gets to ride Sam's old BIG bike now, so that is exciting. The kids go outside and ride their scooters or their bikes EVERY day! Even the cold days. Plus, doing all that swimming. They are definitely going to be fit little boys! He also is reading a lot harder books, that he calls BIG books. He is the only one in the class able to do those big books, so he LOVES it!

Spring Break is next week, so the boys are happy. I like it too. :)

AJ is getting ready to go on a 3 day backpacking trip with the Boy Scouts. They are crazy. They are hiking like 20 miles in 3 days. YUCK! He can't wait though. Weirdo. ;)

I finished 3 classes this past week for school. Yippee! I am way beyond where I should be right now so I am cruising along. I get to add some more classes for this semester, so that will push up my graduation date even more. My counselor also said that next semester we will move me to a newer version of the Teaching program, so like 6 more classes will be dropped. Yippee! This weekend is also my Regional singing contest. I am not competing in a quartet this year. Sad! I miss quarteting, but at least the chorus gets to compete. I hope we do well!

Some other things are happening soon, but I can't share yet, so I will be blogging again sometime soon.

Overall, we are doing great. We are busy, but in a good way. Everyone is loving what they are doing. I can't believe this school year is almost over. It's crazy how fast it goes.