Emily

Hi Family, Hi everyone. Well, here we are .... school's back in session already. Casey just started as a sophomore at Brighton High School! Unbelievable isn't it? It makes me feel pretty old, and brings back memories of when I attended school there. He's been driving with his Learners Permit for about a month now, and is actually a pretty good driver. He's driving our old Toyota pick-up ( the same vehicle he came home from the hospital in when he was a baby). Anyway, he's liking high school so far. He's playing lacrosse again, and having a lot of fun with his friends.

Mitch is in the 5th grade, and is really excited that his best friend Soren transferred to his school this year. He's also in 11 year old scouts, and Uncle John is his scout leader. They just had a fun camp out in his back yard on Friday night.

Alyssa is in first grade, and is getting used to being there all day. Her favorite part about it? school lunch! and lots of friends, friends, friends.

Travis goes to pre-school four days a week now. The bus picks him up and takes him to Quail Hollow. He loves it! And I love his teachers there. They are great, and he's made a lot of progress being there.

John and I are having lots fun (Not!) trying to get our house up and going. Our plans came back from the city with a small list of things that had to be rectified like some minor engineering issues with the deck, and just some other stuff that they wanted us to show on the plan. So that went back to Wasatch Custom to deal with, now that's done and ready to be re-submit. In the mean time, the fire marshall looked at it and said we have to have another fire hydrant on our street or put a sprinkler system in our house. That freaked us out for a bit, but after talking to them we found out their map hadn't shown a second one that really is less than 250 ft away, now they want us to call the water company to make sure there's enough pressure in the hydrants. Why is that our responsibility?! In the meantime, we're still out getting bids so we can get our construction loan, and the list goes on and on. It's a pain, but we're still keeping our fingers crossed that someday it will happen for us.

We're also planning on going to Disneyland next month with some friends of ours and their family. It was something we planned back in January, so amongst everything else going on in our lives..... maybe it's what we need. A good vacation!

Love you! Emily and Family