Beautiful weather.

Spring Break ended with the most beautiful weather we have seen in a long time. We all stayed outside alot and cooked on our new charcoal grill. Yaya and Daddo came over Saturday evening for a great steak dinner and we were all able to relax.
The first part of spring break the girls were able to go down to Grammy and Paps house and play with their cousin Kristen. They always enjoy those trips mainly because they are spoiled for a short time. Grammy took them to the children's museum for the first time and they also went on a Wal-mart shopping trip so Katharine could spend her gift card she had received for her birthday.
I missed them terribly but it is nice to have some peace and quiet for a few days.
The evening we dropped them off with Grammy, Steven and Iwere able to go downtown to eat dinner. Yum Yum. Before dinner we stopped in and saw Kate at LeBonheur. We wanted to bring them some food and presents for Lucy. She is now out of LeBonheur and being treated at St. Jude. We continue to pray nightly for this sweet family.
We are back into the swing of school this week. Samantha has an economics project due Friday that we have been working on. She has to come up with a company and provide and product or service to barder on Friday with her classmates. We decided to make supply cups to go on their desks at school. We painted and decorated empty canned goods for her project. This was fun to do together.
Another big weekend planned with a wedding of a friend and I am going to orientation at LeBonheur to become a volunteer.

Along time coming.

I started this journal a few years back after I saw one my friend, Kate, had created to share with her girls what their life was like as they grew up. I only posted a few times and life got in the way. Now Kate has been hit with a terrible hurdle in life and following her daily blog of her battle has inspired me to put down in words my life.

In the past two years since I have posted, my daughters have grown up tremendously. Samantha is an 8 year old busy girl with extra curricular activities almost daily. She is on a competitive dance team at her dance studio NVS and has competed in two regional dance competitions this month. She also is learning more tumbling to help further her cheerleading goals. This past fall was her third year cheering and she enjoys it tremendously. She is thriving in school but is more bored with the academics and loves the social aspect. I struggle with whether she should continue at her current school, Bailey Station Elementary, or send her to one of the private schools in town.

Katharine is a very spunky 5 year old who makes us laugh all the time. She has such a contagious personality that we can't help but love her. She wants to follow in her sister's footsteps, but would never admit it. She also dances and takes gymnastics. She also loves to perform for our church's childrens' choir. This year we have had the opportunity for her to attend Samantha's school as a typical child in a special needs preschool class. This has been great for her because she is such a little helper.

I started a new business last April and now own a dental practice of my own in Germantown. Seperating out on my own was the best thing professionally for myself. I love my staff and our new office. It was hard work but fun to plan the new office and move in. We have a great practice and have a good time at work.

Steven still works for Xpedx as a manager and works long hard hours. Often he leaves for work at 6am and we don't see him again until 6pm. These long hours are hard for him but having a good job in the current economy is hard to come by so we are so thankful he has one.

As I stated earlier, our friend Kate is going through a very tough time. Her 5 year old daughter, Lucy, was diagnosed 2 weeks ago with medulloblastoma, a type of brain cancer. She has been fighting for her life and has undergone multiple surgeries. For such a little girl, she has touched a community more than anyone could imagine. My girls do not remember her from when they were babies but they have been praying multiple times a day. It tear at my heart to hear of such a little child battling something that she cannot understand. God will use her in a way that we do not know and we must remain faithful that his hand will heal her. We pray that she will fight this battle and grow up to tell her children and grandchildren about the love and support from the community and how God worked to heal her.