February Already?

Things are still going great here. There has been so much going on that I can't believe that February is here already. We are still waiting on getting the 17 year old boy I mentioned last time and now it is suppose to be on Friday that he will be coming to live with us. We have his bed all set up and ready to go. It will be nice that he will be here over the weekend before going back to school on Monday so we will all get a chance to know each other a little better. We did end up getting to have Keely's party since the weather didn't get too bad. Some of our family that came for the party also got a motel room to spend the weekend and it was a lot of fun getting to hang out with them. The kids swam and got in the hot tub at the motel and had a good time doing that. I'm so glad we decided to have the party for Keely because she really loved it and getting all the attention for once. It normally wouldn't have been a big deal but she has NEVER had a big birthday party since her birthday is so close to Christmas. On her first birthday nobody was able to come because it was the day after Christmas and this year the weather was so bad nobody could come again. She was going around during the party saying "I'm so excited!" Last weekend Haley and Tj went skating on Friday night and Tj also went on Saturday. Haley went to a hockey game Saturday night so needless to say both Friday and Saturday night were spent running kids here and there. They both had a great time and Scott and I had a great time spending one on one time with the little girls. Sunday Haley and the 3 little girls and I went to my aunts sons birthday party. He turned 4 and the girls love to go there and play with him and all the other kids. Haley started her job this week and seems to be liking it so far. She says it's not too bad but the cash registers are the hardest part to learn. She is training at the location close by our house and hopefully when the new location by her school opens she will start working there. I know she can't wait to get her first pay check so she can have some of her own money to spend. Everyone has had a little runny nose lately but doesn't seem to be turning into anything more than that. Scott and I got to go our for supper last week and then went to the foster care closet. That is a place where you can go if you have foster children that need clothes. When you go there you can pick out whatever you want and it doesn't cost anything. We had never used it before but since the baby came with nothing and we didn't have anything other than what our friends gave us we decided we would try it. It is a great place and they had so much to chose from. Now when she outgrows her stuff we can just take it back there and pick out more stuff. Since the kids missed so many snow days Lincoln Public Schools decided they would run an extended schedule for 2 weeks rather than go one extra day at the end. So now they are going 15 minutes early in the morning and 21 minutes later in the afternoon this week and next. It is really a pain and messed up every one's schedules. The kids are already tired and they have only been doing it this week so far. It is working out that Scott takes Tj to the bus since it's close to the time he has to go to work and then he also has been able to pick Haley up after school some too. Him helping out has been great for me and not having to load the kids all up as much as I was. I guess I really don't know much else and glad that everything is going good here. Hope you all are doing good too.