Happy Mothers Day!

To all the Russell and Rands ladies!

Just an Update

Hi All,

I've been reading your posts but have been super busy so I haven't commented on them. It sounds like things are well for most everyone. We are good here and Clyde and Coco are doing well at being house broken (although I think it's me whose housebroken, I have to remember to take them out or they gently remind me with a smelly gift).

The kids are super well, Lauren just got here report card back and this is her third quarter to recieve all A's (three A's and four A+'s). Yes, they have A+'s but I don't know how that works in the GPA as they don't start computing that until 9th grade. Harrison recieved all M's and E's - yes I know your asking what's that, it's Meets and Excedes Expectations. It's suppose to be a more "sensitive" way to grade the kids (whatever, in life if you fail no ones going to give you an "N" for needs improvement).

BTW, Our travel is changing this summer, we were planning on coming out there towards the end of the summer but it looks like that may not happen. We are putting in a patio and it's blowing our budget so vacation dollars get hacked into. We are bummed not to be there but we may send Lauren...we are however very happy that we will be able to BBQ somewhere else besides the garage as everytime we do we set off the fire alarm. :)

We are hoping to see Dave and Julie in June and would welcome anyother visitors that would like to come - free room and board if you can make it here!

Hope all is well with you and I love hearing from you all!

Cade's Baptism

Hey everyone -

Cade is getting baptized on May 8th at 1:45. (you will get an invitation in the mail) He wants all of his cousins to sing "Baptism" at his baptism. If you get a minute will you ask them and maybe review the song once or twice before that day....thanks so much.

A little of what is going on in our lives.....Taylor went to prom on Saturday, he had a great time and his date was darling. He is running for Junior class officer and will find out on Tuesday if he makes it. He is studying quite a bit for his AP tests and throws golf in between the snow and studying. Madi is playing a ton of soccer 4 to 5 days a week and loves it. Cade is getting baptized and is playing baseball, between him and Madi , there is a lot of games to watch.

Dave is still traveling quite a bit, last week he was in Boise and Denver, and this week he is in Montana and Portland. Next week - back to North Carolina. The kids and I are going back in June and are excited to see what is like back there and to spend some time with Angie and her family. Hope is welll with all of you. Have a great week!!!

Facebook

Anyone in the family use it?

Snow in April

Wow!!! What did you all think of that snow on Tuesday morning? We had just under 10" in our yard and with it snowing all day we just stayed inside. Fortunately we had just picked up all the materials for our tile floor in the laundry room, so we spent the day working on it and on spring cleaning. James took Jeremy and Ireland outside and they built a snowman. Pretty cool to build a snowman in April. Megan is spending this week in California with her choir group from school and she rubbed it in by texting us a picture of her at the ocean.

What did you all do?

Happy Easter

Hope you all have a good Easter! Love ya!

Julie's BDay!!!

Happy Birthday Julie! The best day of the year to have a b-day.