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~Tee Ball is about to wrap up. Just long enough to start getting tired of going twice a week. Girls had tee ball pictures which set me back a few bucks. Can't wait to get them tonight! Working on a project for the coach as a thank you gift. Scrappy of course.

~Maddie is going to start swim team....maybe. Swimming around these parts is different than home. There are not public pools all over town that you pay a couple of bucks to swim. Pools around here are members only pools where you own a membership. Let me break it down they way I understand it. $300 membership, almost $400 in dues each year and you have to pay to be on swim team $45 for the month of June only AND you have to buy a $42 swim team suit and a $25 practice swim suit. Since we have a pool we don't need to be a member of one, I did find the USA swim team in town that is just about $50 a month and they swim all year.

~Nathan wants to do karate? Just add it to the ever growing things we are doing.

~Alex got a new bible in church yesterday. It is amazing how things happen sometimes. Our kids have kid bibles but she is starting to read more and just yesterday on the way to church I said "we need to get you (Alex) a bible." Well, in Sunday school yesterday they gave her one because she said she didn't have one. I emailed her teacher and asked her who it was Alex should thank because the girl carried around her new bible all day yesterday. Her teacher said it was the other teachers idea. We need to make her a card.

The Lord knew and provide for Alexandra her desire of her heart is what her teacher said in an email. I love this woman! She is so zealous in her views of our God it is infectious. She is a mother of five grown boys ages 24 to 16 and she home schooled! Love her (did I already say that) I am so glad she has been placed in our lives! We just got an email card from the teacher that gave her the bible as I type this. I love the people at this church.

~Mark started a blog. Been There Built That. Check it out the link is in my list. He doesn't read mine but I am plugging his? Nathan's dresser.

~Mark and I are working on our bedroom this week and next. Our new furniture should be here soon so we need to get the painting done and I talked Mark into so closet upgrades. I wanted bifold doors on our closet which I think Mark was cursing this fact as he was tearing out working doors, sliders ~ uggg. He will be thankful when the bifold doors are done with a middle shelf up the center. I will do before and after pictures when it is all done.

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