Now, don't fall off your chair!! Yes I am posting a blog for the first time in a long, long, time. I have a few minutes to myself so I decided to use it this way. I have been to Pioche this morning for jury duty, so I am not in school today. I can't believe that this school year is about over. We really are just waiting for the fat lady to sing. I have been testing every student in the school for their MAPS tests. None of the other teachers really want to do it, so I get to. As most of you know we have had an up and down year this year. We got the girls last May, and really wanted to have them be ours. We tried to give them what they needed for a year (mostly in the form of a normal family life), but they needed more than that. They really needed some serious counseling, which is not available where we live, so I took them and escorted them back to CO a couple of weeks ago. I have talked to Emma and she is doing well, They are getting lined out with the counseling they need and hopefully they will get the proper help. They have many issues that we do not have the skills to address. We are really looking forward to a lot of camping this year. I would go for the summer, but I don't think that is possible. We are looking at another surgery for Gary, as if he hasn't been through enough of them in the past couple of years. We go to the spine surgeon tomorrow to hopefully get things scheduled so that he can have some relief from his tremendous pain. He has had a clean bill of health so far from the heart doctor and from the cancer doctor. He has to go back to them both for checks about every 6 months to make sure nothing has returned. On a lighter note, (not really, because she is huge), we have had a new puppy at our house since December. She is Gracie and she is a Purebred Golden Retriever who is huge but thinks she is a little lap dog because thats what our other dogs are. If you sit on the couch she jumps right up and tries to take her place just like a lap dog would do only she takes up the whole couch. We love her death. She loves to eat pillows, garden hoses, firewood, and anything else she can get in her mouth. We also bought a new toy for camping. We bought a Honda Big Red side by side. Gary has wanted one for a few years and I kept discouraging it, but finally I gave in. I love it!!! It is so much fun to load all the grandkids and dogs into the back and head out for a little ride. We kept the 4 wheelers because we like to go on trails that the big red is too big for. We are literally going to have a train to go camping. We will have the truck, camptrailer, and flatbed trailer all hooked together, cause we can't leave the toys home. Well, that is essentially it in a nutshell except for the fact that I HATE THE WIND!!! I wish it would quit blowing already!!!. One more thing, Angela and I attended the temple in LV last Saturday and it was the most interesting session I have ever done. We got there and in our seat to hit the 7 a.m. session and noticed that there were a lot of hispanics among us and you guessed it we were in the spanish speaking session. We stayed with it and had to wear headsets so that we could understand what was being said. It was great. Now we know that 7 a.m. every Sat. morning in LV at the temple is spanish speaking. It was a great experience.