Maria and Kelly Update

These weeks don't seem to be too exciting, but I will try to think of something to write. This week was conferences and it was nice to talk to all of the kids teachers. Marissa is a sweetheart at school and doing very well. Her teacher likes her a lot. Megan is doing great and gets along well at school, Steven has good grades even if he isn't using his time to the best of his ability during class (he needs to leave his library books in his locker!) and Amber impresses her teachers all around. It is nice to know that they are doing well, but there are some things that need some work, still. All the kids except Amber had the day off on Thursday, and since I wasn't feeling too well (Kelly's cold caught up to me) I made sure David got breakfast and went back to bed. It is nice to have older kids to hold down the fort so I can sleep. Friday all of the kids were home and we did nothing! One of these weekends I will actually plan to go somewhere, but it sure is nice not to have to do anything! We had the missionaries over for dinner on Saturday and attended the baptism of two friends in primary. Kelly took Amber, Megan and Steven to help an inactive sister in our ward move on Friday night. Not many people were there to help, so they made a big difference. The trip to DQ afterwards was nice, as well. Yesterday was downright warm. David ripped off his jacket and ran around in short sleeves and Megan said it felt like summer. The temp. was about 45 degrees and sunny. We know the winter is not over, but it was a welcome teaser of what lies ahead (in two, maybe three months). We had a nice dinner at a friends home tonight. We had waffles with all of the toppings you could imagine. Yummy! We need to get to bed. We drive for seminary this week, so that means we have to leave the house by 5:40am. Amber is trying to convince us that we don't need our cars tomorrow and just let her drive and park the car at school.