Hello Everyone!!!

Hi everybody,
Since I blog like crazy for my business it only made since I should start a family blog! So let's get right on to it.
Life right now, let's see. Things are going pretty good. It is snowing like crazy and going to be 11 degrees then 70 later this week. That's MO for you. We were playing outside in short sleeves two days ago. Shelby is playing basketball right now and doing awesome. Her 1st game was Tuesday and she scored 10 of the 20 points in the game and she also made the winning shot in overtime. Pretty cool. They work them hard though. This is her 1st time playing in middle school vs playing in a city league. I am enjoying the inside sports time right now before softball and tball start and we are sweating to death:)
She has become quite the writer, she has won two awards this year in school for essays she has written. I have no idea where she got that from. She is growing into a beautiful young woman. She attended a youth retreat in Omaha, NE with church last weekend called Dare To Share. She loves the youth group there and I need to get more involved in the church. It's the church we went to off and on (we went back and forth between 2 different churches here in town) since we moved here in 2000. The problem is she picked the church were Steve's funeral was at. I purposely had the funeral at that church because of the size of the church that we would need and at the time we were going to the Christian Church (the other church) and thought I wouldn't have to go back to that building. But she has just been drawn to that place. I know God has some reason for that and I need to figure out a way to walk in to that building.

When she went to leave on the trip I walked in the basement as the vans pulled away so she wouldn't see me crying and oh my gosh this horrible feeling just took over me, being inside there!! But I'm going to have to just do it!

Jackson is doing good and since it's half way through the school year isn't enjoying school anymore. He doesn't hate it, but the excitement has worn away:). He is enjoying playing in the snow today. He is counting down the days until he gets out of school!

CJ is doing good. He is a trainer a Citibank now (yeah the best place to be working now). He has had endless training classes lately. Right now until May. So he has a much longer schedule when that's going on, but it's job security!! So we can't complain. So that's about it for now. I hope everyone is doing good!
Love,
Karen