Glad it's March

It's been a normal busy week here in the Beck house.  Lots going on as usual.  Spent the weekend being kind of lazy, which was wonderful!  Jessie came home which made it all the more wonderful.  Bryan took pity on me and took a turn with the boys and their swimming commitments and spent the weekend in St. Louis for the Ozark Championships.  Landon qualified to swim the mile and Payton qualified in a couple of back strokes and a free style and he also swam 4 relays.  Doesn't sound like much but the swims are all spread out over a few days so it's A LOT of waiting around with a packed house.  Exhausting actually.  Landon ended up cutting his time again which was awesome.  Payton had an up and down weekend.  The bad news was that he and the three boys he was swimming his relays with were on the pool deck and because of all of the chaos they actually missed their swim!  (Bryan said that Coach Steve was so mad at them that he almost sent them all home. haha)  The great news was that he qualified for the finals swim in one swim and came out with an A time!  His first and he's been working on it for over a year...so it was wonderful for him.  We keep telling him if he was a little more consistent with practices he'll have a bunch of A times.  We'll see.  Part of his problem is his mother.  :)   It's hard to get him to practice 5 to 6 times a week when we are so busy and there is so much going on!  OH WELL...we'll just keep doing our best.  ;)

Parent teacher conferences were last week and after hitting all 4 schools and meeting with a ridiculous number of teachers, all seems to be well with the kids and their grades.  I did hear something fun about Hadley from her Alert teacher though.  She attends Alert once a week for half a day and at the beginning of the day they get a sheet of "thinkercises" and it's full of mysterys or puzzles (that kind of thing).  She told me that Hadley does so well on them that the class has made it almost a challenge to knock her out of the top three in the class because she's been there all year.  I thought that was pretty cool...especially since she has never told me that and the teacher said it's an honor.  :)   

Today should be a little hectic because we are having our last team meeting with Matt!  I'm excited and a little worried all at the same time.  I am so ready to move forward with Evan though!!  He's still doing great and talking to everyone he sees which is fun but is starting to concern me as well.  On Sunday we were walking down the hallway together and an older sister in the Ward walked by and said hello.  He looked at here and said, "You're so small" and just kept saying it!  ugh!  She is short but still.  She kept walking and didn't act like she heard him so who knows....but he's just very blunt and who knows what he's going to say in the future!  hmmm.  He could get a little embarrassing.  haha.

Okay...Evan just woke up so that's going to be it for now.  His new thing to call me is "little girl" so the first words for this morning are, "Hey little girl...good morning".  lol.