Wow

It appears that I've been away for about four months - but in reality, I've been feeling overwhelmed by my school load this semester.  You would think that I would be able to fit in a short freakin' post here and there, but for various reasons, I haven't.  

Here's updates, and a few pictures:

Aaron - seems that his remedial college English course has jogged his memory on how to rite English papres.  Mi teecher sayd that eyem gooder then eye youst to bee when eye startd the smester *giggles*.  Actually, I find it ironic that by the time I take and pass English 101 that I'll have written papers for no less than seven college level classes.  Funny and sad at the same time. Astronomy is the real problem class this semester, and I would recommend that if you are going to take classes online avoid the lab sciences like the plague.  There are just some classes that do not translate well into an online format.  The math part I'm doing well at, it's the rest of the class that I'm struggling with.  It doesn't help that my professor is the head of the Astronomy department, and is VERY meticulous in his testing.  The study guide he posts is also very misleading, as he'll list twenty topics that he's testing on - but in actuality he's only going to ask for like three of them.  The rest are questions that will require you to apply the theory of the study guide, and not a regurgitation of facts.  Thank goodness he's grading on a curve.  Other than that, Aaron's biggest accomplishment is making four-star General on Call of Duty 4.

Rachel  is good, she's very busy as well.  She's doing very well in accounting, math, economics and her computer class which should be no shocker to those that know her well.  Between weekly playgroups, Relief Society presidency meetings, raising our kids, being Mommy, working part-time for Gymboree, and being a wife - there isn't much time left for much else.  I try to encourage her to go to book club, or take the occasional G.N.O. to the movies to help her gain perspective on life.  Busy, busy, busy.  

Allison had her first t-ball game today.  We're not sure how she became interested in the sport, but it fits with what we're trying to do with our kids.  Rachel and I felt that it's important to provide exposure to different sports/activities to kids, just to see what they are interested in and what they excel in.  That way, you can drop any unnecessary activities and focus on what they enjoy and do well at.  Between kindergarten, soccer and now t-ball, Allie is keeping very busy.

Ryleigh is doing well.  She's finally potty-trained, after deciding that she wanted to do it.  She's as stubborn and pig-headed as her father sometimes, and that was no different.  She fought and fought and fought us, until she decided it was time and has been doing well ever since.  She wants so badly to be on the soccer and t-ball field with Allie, but can't just yet.  Rachel did find her a purple glove and ball, so now she and Allie can play in the backyard, tossing a baseball around.  

Lindsay is growing too fast, she's going into the nursery in the next week or two.  She's at the mimic stage, where she emulates what she sees her sisters doing.  The poor child gets blamed for everything that goes wrong around the house by her sisters, and can climb just about anything.  She was even climbing the chain link fence at t-ball practice the other night, like Spiderman.  She's very cute, and is the most cuddly at this stage of the three girls.  She loves to hang around Daddy, which I eat up like Mom's biscuits.

That's pretty much a short update - I hope to get on here once a week, but please send me an email to remind me if the blog isn't current.  I sometimes get tunnel vision.  

Hope everyone is well.

On a side note, Halle Berry's performance in X-Men is abysmal.  I don't know why anyone considers her a good actor.