I can't believe how busy it's been lately! Life just seems to be flying by faster and faster every day! Dalton and Gunnar have been playing on basketball teams the past two months. We've had games every Monday and Saturday and practices on Thursdays. It has been so fun to watch them just keep getting better! I love watching them play! We have a little break now before baseball starts! We have scouts every Tuesday, I'm still one of the Bear Den leaders, Dalton goes to Webelos now and most Tuesdays Gunnar comes to Bears with me. Gunnar will be joining the wolf den next week when he turns eight! Ridge is going to Amber Dunn's preschool and is also doing Upstart, an online preschool. He is already reading three letter words! He's super smart, but is still struggling behaviorally and socially so we're still trying to decide whether or not to send him to Kindergarten this year or wait until next year. Jake and I have been stressing out about it. Ridge had an assessment done at Early Intervention the first of this week, which came back inconclusive so they want a questionnaire completed by his preschool teacher and they also want their psychologist to go over his file. Kara is doing great! She's talking up a storm and has fit in perfectly with our family! The boys absolutely adore her, and she adores them! I'm still taking her to visits with her parents twice a week. I have to have her to Brigham on Weds. mornings at 7, and now Friday afternoons from 11:30-1:30. Sometimes her parents don't show up to the visits, which is pretty frustrating- especially the 7am visit! We had a team meeting last week with us, her parents, the Guardian ad litem (Kara's voice in court), the social workers, therapists, and caseworker. Basically what the team meetings do is keep everyone involved in the case updated on the parents' progress or lack of. We go to court again the end of next month. We go to court every three months, we went in October and January. When we went in January the Judge told her parents if they didn't get it together by the next court date he would move to terminate their rights. We'll see what happens next month. It's such an emotional roller coaster! We are so attached to Kara and would love to adopt her! The hardest part is not knowing and not having any control over the outcome!
Jake finally finished our kitchen pantry! I'm so excited! He got all the shelves up and the ceiling and floor finished. I got the whole little room painted. All I have left to do is to nail on the baseboards and paint them, and put one more coat of paint on the shelves! Just trying to find a day to get that done! I help in the boys' classrooms at school every Monday and try to go on most of their field-trips. I still teach about once a week at the church workout group and I've also been going with my friend, McCall, to a gym at 5 in the morning. It's what keeps me sane! Jake switched roles at work about two months ago, he is now the Accounts Manager, which means that he's the liaison between Teva and all their partner/merger companies. He really enjoys it. He's also keeping busy as the Ward Mission leader, a calling that he surprisingly really enjoys. We've taken the boys skiing a few times this winter. We even took Ridge for the first time a few weeks ago! Now the weather is starting to warm up and it's been so nice to get outside and start cleaning up the yard and getting the garden ready to plant.
