Story Telling Festival

Olivia's school has been preparing for a Story Telling Festival here in Utah, they all had to learn a story and recite it in front of the class as part of their grade. So Olivia chose the book Olivia... And The Missing Toy, she has been very cute about learning it and stood up in class last Friday and told her story I was very proud and she did very well. I had a meeting with her teacher today and she told me Olivia had been chosen as 1 of the top 3 in the class. Tomorrow she and the 2 others will tell their story to the 2nd grade teachers and they will decide who the winner will be. The winner then gets to tell their story at an assembly in front of the whole school. She told James today " The teacher said whoever is the winner if they don't want to say it in front of the school that is OK but if it is me I am going to do it!" She is so happy and I am very proud because she is usually so shy.

CRAZY WEEKS!!!

So we have had the craziest weeks ever, I feel like somedays we are constantly running. James comes home tomarrow and I am looking forward to a non stressful weekend with him. His last trip home was the weekend we have known would come sometime. He flew in on a Wed. evening it just happened to be the night it snowed so hard it basically shut down the freeway. It took Heather 5 hours to get home from work and it took me 2 hours to go what totaled about 4-5 miles. Needless to say it was impossible to get James from the airport so he spent the night. I was feeling guilty that I was in a comfortable bed and he was sitting in the airport I didn't sleep hardly at all and went at 4am and picked him up the roads were horrible again one of the scariest things I have had to do. After that we had a good weekend, then on Sunday I dropped him off at the airport and started home then got a call from Delta your flight today has been canceled. I then turned around and went and got him, we had him for a few more hours but had to call in sick to work for a few hours. Things can get stressful with travel! Life keeps us busy Olivia and Will have started reading tutoring at the library (its free!) Madalynn is now 17 months and keeps me on my toes she is doing better with standing up and cruising, hopefully walking will come soon! I have started water aerobics every morning at 6am and I love starting my day that way, I can already tell a difference in the fit of my clothes. We are doing good except for being in limbo with James job we just wish we had a clue as to what is going on, it is hard to have to go thru this for the 2nd time in a year.

You Can Count On Me!

Yesterday Will, Madalynn, and I went to the mall and we went into a shoe store and there was a bench running down the middle of the store with the shoes on either side. I told Will he could sit in the middle if he wanted, he said he would like to so I pushed Madalynn in the stroller right next to him and said "Can you watch her for me while I look at shoes?" (Mind you that the store was very small and I had them in sight the whole time) And he said "You can count on me mom" I just chuckled a little at the cute phrases kids come up with but there was a woman standing next to me that said " Is that not the cutest thing how sweet of him that makes me want to cry, he is so good." It made me feel very good to have a son who is good and keeps me smiling and on my toes!

January Is Already Gone???

Well as you can see I have gotten behind on blogging again, I need to get used to writing on here even if I don't have pictures. Well James just left this morning after being here for 10 days, he took some vacation days and it was wonderful to have him here for so long. The kids loved having him here and were sad to see him go back to California. We had a big snow storm this morning and we had to get James to the airport, it was one of the scariest things I have ever had to do. Luckily he drove up there but I had to drive home and it was awful. But he got home with no delays and I was able to get home with no problems so we are thankful for that. Well we are excited to be able to have a service up here that is willing to have a physical therapist come out and help Madalynn with her gross motor skills, she is just starting to pull herself up to stand and by this time most kids are walking so we are lucky to have people be able to come out and help us with that. Olivia is now in Girl Scouts she is a brownie and I am her troop leader. We just started this and it is fun, we just ended selling cookies and that was very exciting. Will is doing really good, we are starting him this week in a program that will help him learn and get ready for kindergarten next year. Will and Olivia love to play the Wii whenever possible and I have posted pictures of him and Grandpa playing bowling together. This picture I have posted is of Madalynn with Will at James' parents house over christmas and it makes me smile Madalynn has started singing and dancing whenever music comes on and she was so loud in church today a lot of people were smiling at her it was very funny. She loved the piano with Will. Olivia is also doing very well on her bike but it has been so snowy it has made it hard to practice riding her bike!