October 17, 2005

October 17, 2005

We had an incredibly busy week. While Hal and Corey were here, we completed tons of projects! They painted Tyler’s room white and it looks so much bigger now. We put up his Spiderman posters and even made a dinosaur wall. We also made a reading corner where he loves to sit and read all his informational books about animals. It looks great. They painted Alayna and Kayla’s room the same purple (light) we did our bathroom. (I will try to send pics next week). Then we mounted pictures of horses through the room. It looks so beautiful and the girls love it. Then we changed the Spiderman bathroom into a beautiful white and lavendar bathroom with a gorgeous purple floral trim and a Barbie Fairytopia poster. It looks so cool!!! Poor Bob, his home is slowly becoming purple...

We had some neat accomplishments this week. Tyler has earned 3 of his 4 yellow stripes in Tae kwon do. We are so proud. Then Marisa was chosen to be the section leader of the 6th grade orchestra and she gets to tune the orchestra each day. That made her so happy. They keep asking her to take private lessons, they said she is really good. It's just too expensive right now. She has her first performance tomorrow night. Marisa also did a great job in their last dance team performance during half time at the football game. Kayla started her volleyball games and is doing so wonderful! Her team won 5 out of the 6 games they played and she scored several of the points. She was pretty shy at first, but it starting to get the hang of it. Alayna got to go to the pumpkin farm with her preschool class this week. She was so excited and tol us how she got to ride in a wagon and everything. She also brought home a mini pumpkin.

I had teacher conferences with Tyler and Kayla’s teachers and they could not be doing any better. I was so proud of their reports and how much they are accomplishing in class. Marisa has hers this coming week.

Bob is still playing football and basketball. They still haven’t won, but are holding their own. He rolled his ankle last week though- it always makes me worry. I only have 3 lessons left to complete the second course and I take the final for the first course this week. It will be so nice to get these out of the way.

I spoke in church yesterday on how we don’t have to be Superwoman all the time or ever for that matter. Anyway, if anyone wants a copy of the talk or the funny poem that went with it, let me know. It went really well, I think, except for the severe dry mouth which caused me to have one of my most embarrassing moments ever!!

Well, I am off to clean, as always. However, Alayna took a nap for some reason and it has been a very pleasant afternoon!! Our love to everyone and a special thanks to Marisa for all your fun and sweet comments on the weblog!!