10-27-08

Whew are we glad last week is over! Monday was John's birthday and Reagan was soooooo excited! She got up early and we put up the decorations. She also decorated his birthday cake all by herself! with sprinkles and toy dinosaurs and palm trees, that were on blue water and white sand :-) We opened presents that night with Cake and Steve and he had a great time and got some fun boy toys. Thanks for calls and gifts! Tuesday both kids had well visits. they did OK although my tough Reagan freaked out at shot time, but luckily the nurse was so quick she didn't even know that it had been done! Wednesday was soccer practice, Thursday we took Cake to the airport, Friday we had a wedding reception for one of our favorite YSA. Saturday Gwen took the kids to Reagan's soccer game while Jim prepped the yard for winter grass. He spent a good portion of the day planting the grass and then went to his brother's for the evening while Gwen prepped for Sunday. Kids were not very good on Sunday and that evening we had Petersens over for family dinner and a mini family party for the kids' birthdays. They were so grouchy at bedtime so they didn't even get their baths, we just wanted them in bed!!! The week seemed long and Gwen had a very busy work week with phones and for the second time the pool broke and emptied out about a foot of water from the pool. And the bank messed up on one of Jim's business accounts and we had to take the hit, which was not nice, so we are changing banks on Monday. Hope this week is better, it sure is busy. Have a fun Halloween everyone! Love, Jim Gwen Reagan and John
p.s. just a little sidenote. Jace is now working for Volkswagen instead of GM and one of his perks is he gets to drive a new model car for several weeks and write a report on it. He just got his first car, a sporty two door 2009 Audi ($55K). He took us for a ride and it's great all of the gadgets. But the coolest is that you can set the distance you want between you and the car in front of you. So if you put on cruise control, the car will automatically speed up to that speed, but if you come up on a car, it will automatically slow down when you get to the preset distance, and it will do it quickly too. it has the backup monitor and a gauge to show you when to stop to be a safe distance. Anyway, just some fun things, and he might even get to drive Porsches! and Bentleys!