It’s Been Awhile
Sorry it’s been so long since we have made an update here. It’s funny how life just keeps us busy. There hasn’t been a ton going on lately around our house. Emma has been busy with kindergarten. She’s doing very well in her class and I would estimate she’s reading at about the second grade level. She routinely reads 125+ page books and has really enjoyed the Junie B Jones series. We’ve been trying to go to the library as often as we can and she just loves to pick out a stack of books to bring home.
Emma participated in a dance clinic a couple weeks ago at the high school. Kids from the local elementary school were able to sign up for the day long event on a Saturday and then they put on a show at the end of the day. My cousin Brian’s daughter (Lauren) was one of the dance instructors. I think the event was put on by the high school dance team as a fundraiser. Emma had a great time there and I’m sure she’ll want to do it again next year. Her friend, Jena, also participated and she made a couple new friends there too!
We’ve been trying to spend as much time as we can out at the lake. Since we completed (well, mostly completed) the place it’s been nice to go out there and just relax. I had a “guys” weekend out there a few weeks back where we played poker etc. We had 13 people for the poker game (Texas Holdem) which is about the max I think I’d want to have in the game. It ended up lasting a little over 5 hours.
Katie is enjoying her job and is doing a lot of crocheting when she has the time. Other than that, not too much happening around here. I was looking for some pictures to post along with this but I realized that we haven’t been taking photos lately. We bought a video camera (finally) and have been mostly using that. Here’s a video of Emma singing a song she made up about taking care of the earth. She’s very in to being a responsible citizen of the earth these days. :) We took this video last weekend when we were out at the lake:
