Morgan's Report Card

Morgan received her report card today. She made "A" honor roll again...YEA!! Reading - 98
Writing - 96
Spelling - 97
Math - 97
Social Studies - 95
Science - 95
Her home base teacher included comments: "shows creativity in writing" and "applies information read". She received a gold ribbon for good conduct and a blue ribbon for "A" honor roll. So proud!

Cat, Tooth, Reconciliation

First of all we decided to go ahead and bring Blicky inside on Thursday. She tested negative for feline leukemia and feline AIDS so we got her rabies and distemper shots and brought her in the house. She will be spayed in a few weeks. Aiken and Ginseng are not too happy about the new roommate but things haven't been too bad. For the most part they just try to keep a respectable distance between each other.



Thursday night Morgan lost another tooth. Now she has matching windows on the top.



On Saturday Morgan had her First Reconciliation after CCE. She was nervous but did fine. Luckily she didn't have too many sins to confess so it didn't take too long. We took her out for ice cream at TCBY afterward to celebrate her newly cleansed soul.

Camel Ride and Christmas

This year at ELP they had a camel and donkey for the kids to ride. The camel was really tall and after riding it the first time Adrian said it felt "dangerous". He didn't really want to ride it again unless I rode it with him so I did. It was kind of cool. It is not every day that you get a chance to ride a camel. It was very wobbly. Adrian got to ride a donkey too which he really enjoyed.




Well Christmas has come and gone. We rented a van and drove to Alabama for the holidays. We started out in Helena with the Holly clan. There were lots of people to visit with and parties to go to. It was a whirlwind visit it seems. The kids enjoyed playing with their numerous cousins. An added bonus was that the kids got to see Santa ride by on the Helena Fire Engine on Christmas Eve. He even threw candy to them in Mom and Dad's yard. Christmas morning it took a long time to open all the presents. Santa was good to the kids this year. Morgan received the pink Nintendo DS Lite she had been wanting and Adrian got an electric guitar so that he can jam with his dad.





We stayed in Helena until the day after Christmas at which time we drove to Orange Beach to hang with the Kleins. The weather cooperated enough that we got a few hours on the beach one day. The kids had a great time playing wave tag. We drove back home before New Year's Eve and actually went to the Smileys for a party to ring in the new year. I actually made it until midnight and got to see the ball drop.