i guess i will try again

I am not really a computer person, but i will try again to write in this blog. I guess i am just busier than ever before and can't do as much as i want to. In march i was called as the YW pres in our branch. right now i only have on counselor and we have 8 to 11 active girls, so there is alot of work to do. At the end of march i discovered i was pregnant. we are very excited, but a little overwhelmed by this news. I have never been more busy in my life since we moved to this small town, some weeks either michael or i are gone every night, so adding a baby to this will be intersting. I am due in mid october, which makes Riley happy since she will no longer have the last birthday in the family.

Michael is having a great time in YM, he loves being the scoutmaster, it is the perfect job for him, it just means lots of time away from us. He recently spent 3 days in Savannah at Wood badge training, i think the guys had a great time acting like teenagers again. He also enjoys being 1st counselor in YM, but the pres is gone a lot so he seems to have more work to do than he should. Just yesterday we had branch council and we both had to go, luckily we live close enough that he took the kids home and whittni watched them so that we didn't have to keep them after church for 2 hours. He is really looking forward to scout camp this summer.

Both of us being in the youth programs does pose challenges though, we can't both go to everything since on of use needs to stay with our family, but we'll figure it out. I guess after october, i won't be doing much for a while anyway.

We spent the week of spring break in rolla visiting my family. the kids went to the zoo and the magic house in st louis with my parents so that michael and i could go to the temple. We had a great time. we were fortunate to not be in town when the tornado hit, it came through about 1 1/2 miles south of our home, a little too close for my liking. we only lost power for about 24 hours, but we were only home for 3 of them. the kids were complaining because they couldn't watch tv, so we took some of them for a ride down the road to show them the uprooted trees and broken telephone poles and this old shack that was demolished. they soon stoped complaining.

The kids will be done with school in 4 weeks, i'm not ready for that. We still don't have many neighbors and there are no kids besides them. that's all for now, i will try to write more often.

I thought I would finally join most of the world and start a blog so that our family and friends could see the happenings of our lives. I am not very good with computers, so don't expect too much.

I guess I could start this off by saying that Whittni got straight A's on her report card this quarter, Riley and Dylan don't get grades, but they did very well also. Aubry is still enjoying her alone time during the day. She is very good at amusing herself, which is good for me so I can get some work done. Tomorrow Dylan will be having a celebration at his school for the 100th day, he is very excited. Riley has begun the count down until she is 8. Today she said it's 10 months left mom, in February it will be 9. She is looking forward to going to Activity Day Girls.

Here is a recent picture of the children, Aubry didn't want to stay for the picture, so Whittni had to hold here there. I don't know what else to add, I will try to update twice a week.