New

Not much is new that I would consider blog worthy, but it's been a long time since I posted. Here's some things that are new. I got a new camera for my birthday, but really don't have any reason to take any pictures right at the moment. But I anticipate using it quite a bit , so look out.
I have been working on the Church blog a little more, adding pictures that one of our members is taking for me. You can check that out here.
We had a great time having a horde of boys over for Nate's 13th birthday. We were able to have some missionary kids, Ethan and Fletcher Frost, come and spend the night with him and then enjoy the party with us the next day. The Frosts are in translation work with Bibles International. Nate says that just having those two over was a gift in itself.
I have an appointment with the dentist to have a bad tooth removed. UGH! The infection has kept me laying low for the past week or so, so I'll be glad to have that over with. The dentist will put in a new spacer thingy so I can chew on that side again, once it heals.
Mikayla is working hard to catch up on some schoolwork that she got behind in. I am pushing Alana a little bit with her math in anticipation of upcoming testing. She does not test well, so I am keeping my fingers crossed and just keep trying to prepare her in the best way I know how. I made the right decision having her do third grade again, and she has really improved a lot in weak areas of her learning. Nate plugs away every day, sometimes doing extra out of boredom. He has completely finished two of his classes for this year. Lanie calls him the "lucky ducky" of the family. :)

We added another music lesson to the budget just for Mikayla. She hopes to major in music or music education in college. Her piano/voice teacher is very happy to begin preparing her to excel in that major. She has two years of schooling left before High School graduation, and then, because she is younger, has the option of another year to prepare. We are thinking that she could work and take a few classes by correspondence. ( Terry has been researching College grants and scholarships. UGH!) We were having all three kids share one half hour lesson a week. So they alternated, and we felt that it wasn't enough for her to only have a lesson once every three weeks. Now she studies (and I MEAN STUDIES) piano one week, and voice the next. She also is playing flute in the MA band. Alana and Nate now share the other half hour lesson for piano, so that they each have a lesson every other week.
We had the Musical Ministries Team from BJU in at Bible Baptist again this year, and once again, they were great! This year some of our members made the dinner for them before the concert. In past years, that was up to Terry and I. It was nice to have someone else be in charge of that. We were able to sit and get to know the team a little better.

Spring has indeed sprung here in Maine, and I have pansies in bloom. I guess that would be considered "old" because I planted those last May and they have come up again. In February! What a hearty little flower the pansy is! This is the earliest and warmest Spring on record. We are loving it!
That is about it for "new" things going on around here.