Long Weekend!

I am sooo excited to have another 3 day weekend! Kaitlyn has an in service day so we get to stay home all day....only someone forgot to tell Kaitlyn that on no school days, YOU GET TO SLEEP IN. We had Meredith spend the night last night and Kaitlyn decided at 5 she was ready to place her DS and woke all of us up. All of us, me in included, were sleeping in the living room. Meredith got a little sad for her mom so I laid down on the floor and snuggled her right up until 5 am, uggg.

Michelle's Grandma was inducted into the Columbia Basin College Hall of Fame last night. Grandma Margaret (as she is known by all of the fam) brought womens sports to CBC. She taught at CBC for over 3o years and before Title IX, basically ran an underground association for women to play sports. She is an amazing woman! A few years ago the Olympic torch came through the Tri-Cities. Grandma was choosen to carry the torch for the last leg and then light the big torch on the back of the van to move on to the next city. It was such a fitting event for her and she is such a role model for all women!

So lets see what else has been up... last week Trace was so sick. He had a fever for 3 days and a horrible cold. Rick stayed home with him 2 days and I stayed home with him for 2 days. He still has a bit of a cold but is on the mend. Kaitlyn thankfully was able to fight it off.

Last weekend our very good friend KEVIN turned the big 4-0 so his wife threw a surprise birthday party for him. Rick and I were able to get Brian Ohler to arrange a ride-along with the Prosser police department. Brian wasn't on duty but Kevin didn't know that. He thought he was in for a night of busting speeders. They conviently got a call from dispatch saying there was a noise complaint on the road Kevin lives on. Kevin jokingly said, boy I hope it isn't my house. Well when they drove by guess what, there were cars every where. Kevin quickly figured out there was a party at his place going on but told Brian to go ahead and answer his call first...a little slow to realize that he was the call :-) We had fun visiting with friends and family and helping Kevin ring in the 40's.

Kaitlyn got her report card this week for her 2nd trimester.. she got straight A's! She worked so hard and her grades really showed it. We rewarded her last night with getting to pick dinner. She picked sloppy joe's and ice cream..PERFECT!

We have a very quiet weekend planned, thank goodness! Rick just left for Tri-Cities to pick up carpet for our bedroom and will hopefully install it tonight or tomorrow. The walls are painted... we just need a toilet and to finish the shower in the bathroom. The shower will be tiled soon but the doors will be on the back burner a little while longer since they are a pretty penny. We will be able to have all the other bathroom functions and luckily we have 2 other showers so we will be in good shape. I can't wait to have my bedroom back!!!

I hope all of you get to enjoy the sunshine this weekend. It might not be warm but with the sun out and the grey gone, things are so much less depressing!!! Thank goodness, I was about to go crazy on the gray days.