Happy Easter

Hope everyone had a great Easter weekend. We really enjoyed the time. We went to Nana and Papa's for a little Easter egg hunt. Thought we might have the appearance of a hockey game, but everyone was civilized while searching for eggs. Dad tried to bump Emily, but she knocked him over! So much for sneaking some of her candy! We have some pictures of the girls with their cousins...incredible how quickly everyone seems to grow up.

Erin - she has already passed the reading level she should be at by the end of the year and then some. She is on pace to get the AR trophy and she is soooo excited about it. She is getting ready for her dance recital in a month or so. She is not discussing what they are learning....it's supposed to be a surprise. Erin has been doing really well with gymnastics...she has her round-off looking really good.

Emily - she has been very busy with her Redbird reader job. She goes to school early every morning, except Mondays. She and Beth, Melinda's team teacher, leave our house around 6:30am. Em has some long days. She is doing great at soccer. We won our last game 9-1. Em had 5 goals...she would have had more, but Dad tried to give the other team a break.

Elizabeth - she has UIL band competition on Thursday this week. She has a research paper she has been working on that is due Wednesday. She also has gymnastics and a science fair project due soon. It's exhausting just listing everything she has going on...going to feel really good next week when her projects are over.

Melinda - getting down to "crunch time" for Melinda and the other teachers with the TAKS test coming soon. Mel seems to be running ragged getting everyone prepared and her own class as well. After this year, we are going to evaluate whether we want to stay in the Temple school system or not. We are going to check out a couple of other options in the next few weeks. We'll keep everyone posted...