Cora loves working at Gap. She has had a few compliments from customers and much praise from her employer. She is loving all the time that her roommates spend together and is a little sad as they are all leaving next week. We will go up and move her into another apartment. This one has more windows and she will have her own room. Although she will really miss Maycie. She is a little excited and a little nervous for this move, but she will be in the same ward and a lot of her friends are staying for the summer. We were sad that she was not coming home for the summer, but she felt like Edmonton was were she needed to be. She has also started working on her mission papers.
Leah had a recheck of the cyst in her thigh yesterday. Nothing has changed, furthering their believe that she has had it her whole life. The Dr. did tell her it would be best for her not to play extreme football. Leah was OK with that. :) He did warn her about skiing tho. She had her first date last weekend. They went ax throwing and she had a blast. This weekend she gets to attend her first priest/laurel conference, and is really looking forward to it. Gas prices are so ridiculously high that we have not been running her around as much. Leah has had to choice which rugby games to see. But she has been good and understanding about it. The other day she came home with a science test. She had studied hard for it and was very disappointed when her mark came back at 54%. A month into this semester her teacher told the class that she actually was not supposed to teach science, years ago the parents had gotten together and complained about her teaching and now wasn't supposed to. How that slipped by I'm not sure. Anyways the principal started sitting in on the classes that he could to help the students. She brought her test home and Dave sat down with her for over two hours to figure it all out. They only got half way through the test, it was bedtime, and Dave had found 3 mistakes the teacher made. Leah had also found one at school. Long story short, the next day after Leah talked to the principal, the math teacher (it is a physics unit) and the science teacher she had brought her mark up to a 70. Crazy!! But good for her.
Blake is in the middle of archery and badminton. Really enjoying both. He will soon start soccer, if the snow ever melts. He has been wearing his night braces for his feet and we are seeing a lot of improvement. The braces strap his feet in and keep them flat during sleep, so the back muscle can't stiffen up. He hardly has pain anymore in his feet. Just his tendon hurts and they don't know what to do about that. He has really taken what his teachers told him on his last report card and improved his grades. Blake is now pulling high 80s and 90s. He is pretty sure he want to be an engineer when he grows up. Leah had a really special moment with him a few weeks ago. Dave and I were gone. Leah texted me this, 'We were watching Prince of Egypt and Moses parts the Red Sea and Blake was like holy he has the power of God. And he started crying and was like" I have the power of God!" It was the sweetest thing. My heart'. I thought that was pretty cool. They seem to finally be finding a rhythm of thing they can get along about. We have more good days than bad. It has been nice. It is fun to see him maturing and growing. He loves so many things it is fun. But he is still my little boy, he hugs us all often and always makes sure that everyone knows that he loves them.
I am just same oh same oh. Doing laundry, cleaning house, making bread,lunches, meals, running kids around. Enjoying the warm days that we get and being with my family.
So glad Dave is enjoying his new job. I hope he continues to have success there. Great updates on the whole family. Love you guys. We need to get together soon.
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