Hello!

I am way too busy to blog, but since Bev & Brian (& Stephanie) are up here I decided I could spend a little time updating everyone on our family. (I am supposed to be doing homework right now!) As most of you know I am finishing up my pre-reqs to apply to nursing school at the U this Jan. I am also working full time at LDS Hospital at the ER as a Unit Clerk and in the Adv Cardiac Care Unit as a CNA & Tele Tech. Ben is still working at Detroit Diesel. Abby started 4th grade, Jordan 2nd grade and Megan Kindergarten. (Pictures to come!) Megan has grown leaps and bounds over the past 2 weeks. She started reading over night it seems and sits by Jordan and does his homework with him!! Jordan has caught up to grade level with his reading and is loving math. He also is excelling at any sport he tries. I only wish I knew how I could get him involved in more (or had the time!) Scouts is coming in June and hopefully that will help. Abby loves to read and is also very good at math. She is enjoying attending activity days and making new friends. They are all still playing soccer. Somehow we (mostly Ben) are able to get them to all their games and practices. Megan and Haylee are on the same team again and I am happy to report that during their first game they didn't hold hands on the field once. Megan hasn't personally scored a goal yet but when one of her teammates scores she cheers as if she had. Jordan is doing well, he knows how to get the ball up the field, is learning about teamwork and has scored a couple of goals already. Abby is on a coed team this year, her coach from last year couldn't come back and apparently their is not enough interest in all girls soccer here (I just don't understand!) She has been playing defender. When she gets a shot off she really does a good job but she is really intimidated by the boys and if they are around she lets them have it. I am going to find some time to take her out and intimidate her to teach her to be aggressive!!
I am posting a few pictures of our Disney trip last March for starters and I will have to get more current pictures downloaded. We really had a wonderful time. We spent 5 full days at the park and could have done 5 more if only we had a week to rest in between! Abby got to ride the Rockin' California Screamin' roller coaster and loved it, Jordan became a jedi knight and defeated Darth Vader, and Megan's dreams came true when she got to meet her hero stitch! (Ben really was there too, he was taking the pictures!) Here is a picture of him and the kids at the pier by Reed and Mary Ann's place in Oceanside. (Hope to visit again soon by the way! The ocean was beautiful and the kids can't stop talking about how much they loved Christian.)