After that quick and busy weekend, I came home to my family, spent a few hours with Mike and then he headed off to Oklahoma for the week. I started teaching a beginning course in Digital Scrpbooking using Photoshop Elements. I will be teaching the course once a week for 6 weeks. I have had two classes so far and I think it is going really well. I just hope the people in my class get what they need out of it. Depending on how this class goes and the feedback I get from it, I am considering offering another session of the beginning class and maybe a second class that would dig in even deeper with the fun things you can do for scrapbooking in Elements. I will also start advertising more generally if I do it again and try to get a bigger class. I guess we will see how it goes. I guess the best part is that I am enjoying the process of preparing for my classes and then walking through everything with my "students". Maybe that is in my blood a bit, afterall, my dad has been teaching dentistry for around 30 years I think, and my brother teaches a couple of classes for the State College of Southern Nevada on filmography and editing (I think that's what he teaches, I should really ask him sometime to be sure).
Kaylee had a second surgery on her little finger on the 17th. I am so glad we decided to go ahead with the surgery. We were having her screws removed, and a clean up of scar tissue with the goal of improving her range of motion, which had been very limited since her first surgery in September last year. (despite weeks and weeks of physical therapy). What the surgeon found when he opened her up was that her tendon was completely tied down by the scar tissue that had formed and there was no way she ever would have gotten that motion back without the surgery. So he removed the screws (which were bigger than I ever would have expected) and released her tendon. So we are very glad we did it. Today in therapy she actually got to a 90 degree bend, and that is just 8 days after surgery, and a huge improvement. She is getting ready for track season to start on March 8th. We are hoping she is ready.
Last Thursday, Tiffany had her last regular season Basketball game. Her team won the game by just one point. It was an intense game, bu they pulled it off in the end. That leaves them undefeated for the season with a record of 8-0. The team they beat ended up 6-2. They will have the conference championships next weekend. If all goes well, they will be the city champs for 6th grade basketball. MOst of the girls on the team were also on their champion voleyball team too. So that is really cool. Then the week after the basketball championships Track season starts. Tiffany plans to run and do the long jump. We will see how that goes too.
Ryan had a birthday this week. He turned 10. I can hardly believe it. He is having his birthday party today with a few of his friends. They are playing dart tag and Wii, having pizza, and cake and ice cream. It should be fun.
Jake is enjoying school. It makes me so happy to go to parent teacher conferences and hear how well he is doing. Apparently he listens to his teacher much better than he does to me. But I guess that is good in mnay ways.
Kyle is learning to rollerblade with his brothers and is doing great. All of the boys have been spending time in the basement every day roller blading or riding their ripsticks for the last month. They are working on a "Schools on the Move"challenge where they are supposed to log all there physical activities for the month of February. IF they do a certain amount they get a free t-shirt. It is so fun to watch them get so into this challenge. It makes me happy because it gets them active in the winter when they tend to be less active normally.
Mike has had a long week away this week. He left on Sunday and will just get home tonight (Friday). We are happy to have him home for the weekend.
Well, that's it for now.
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