Well it's a rainy dreary day here and Jeff had to drive to work in the car pool, and I dont really want to walk to school in the rain with a sick baby and two kids so Kelsi is missing the last day of school before she goes off track, thankfully it is just pe and computer time. Poor Tory has had a terrible cough lately, bordering on croup so we have had several sleepless nights lately. However some good news for Tory is that the neurolgy department wanted to try some anti-convulsive medication for Tory. It has been a night and day difference for Tory. She has only held her breath 2 times within a week and no seizures. She is happier, more playful and more energentic. I am happy that something finally seems to be helping. There is a couple more tests set up for now, we are waiting to talk to the neurologist in a week so they can find out how Tory is doing on the medicine and that will determine if we are going to go through with the tests, one of them is a 23 hour EEG, which I am really not looking forward to. They also suggested taking Tory to a children's therapist to see if they could help us out with some ideas on how to treat her and help her get through these things, so we decided what the heck it cant hurt, I set up the appointment, got Jeff out of work early dragged Kelsi and Gabe over there and the therapist stood us up! So needless to say we wont be going back.
We had parent teacher conference for Kelsi this week and Kelsi is doing so good. Her teacher was telling us good things after good things for her. She has made it through all of her reading books and is now in regular books that she can have her choice off, to bring home to read. She is very excited about this. Her teacher said she is very "energetic". She is very helpful and has even been put at the same table as kids that could use some extra help because her teacher said she is so good at helping other students. It made us so happy to hear such good praise about Kelsi. So we are starting our "grades dinner" tradition. This is a tradition we had when we were little and if we did the same or better each report card time we would get to go out to dinner. It was something I always looked forward to. So Kelsi decided she wanted a restaurant that had slides so Artic Circle was the first grades dinner. Enjoy it while I can ,I know, I am sure it is going to get more expensive as we go.
As I mentioned earlier Jeff got a yearly bonus this year and we decided to be a little bad and spent a little on a family splurg, we got a new LCD TV for downstairs, we sold our old one to Owen and took advantage of Circut City going out of business. Once I get it looking all the way I want to, (hidding all the cords) I will have to post a picture. It opens up the basement a ton, it is such a small room as is so this helps a lot. We also went to HR Block to do our taxes this year and our return is more the double what we got last year, so we are going to be able to get all but 2 payments on the car paid off! I dont think I have ever owened a car that was completly paid off, I am very excited about that! Now we can dump all of the car payment on our credit card and hopefully get that paid off by this time next year.
We had family pictures done and if I say so myself we are a pretty handsome looking family. We got them done at Wayman's studio and they turned out really nice. Very pricy, but thank goodness for a gfit certificate so we did not have to pay for most of it. Now I just need to find a great big frame, our family pictures is a 16 x 20!
Oh and my brother Blake who just got home from him mission proposed to the girl who waited for him last night. So congratulations to them. March 28th is the wedding date. Madalyn is a cute girl and they will be very happy I am sure. We are looking forward to getting to know her better, she is so quiet or as Craig put it yesterday, maybe we are just to scary.
