February

February has been pretty crazy with sickness and cold weather and fires and now it's March already! So here's a quick update. Ashlyn's finished with Basketball and is now doing off-season track. She didn't really want to be in track since she always ends up in events she doesn't like. Colten is also finished with basketball, he missed 2 games because he was sick and 1 game was canceled because of weather, so he only made it to half of the games, but he had fun. The pinewood derby was last Friday and Colten had to miss it because he had a fever. That was a particularly crazy day getting him to the doctor with John out fighting a fire and both John and I being in charge of the derby. Thank goodness for Omie B!!!! Everyone was nice enough to let Ashlyn run his car for him since he couldn't be there. He ended up getting 3rd in his age group, but not overall.

Spring Break starts tomorrow and the kids are going camping with Omie & Opie A at Lake Corpus Christie. Hope they have good weather and can do lots of fishing and maybe some beach time. John & I are going to spend a couple of days in Ruidoso for our anniversary while they're gone, so we're looking forward to that! Hopefully everyone stays well!

Ashlyn got a letter that she didn't get into the counselor-in-training program and she was pretty upset about it. It's hard to see her so disappointed, but I guess that's life! I told her she should try again next year, hopefully she will and will know better what to do.

And a bit of exciting news - we just booked our tickets to go see Jill this summer, so it's official! YAY!

On a final note, here's Colten with his pinewood derby car: