Yes I'm alive/summary

Ok..so I haven't blogged in months...It's not that life was boring or too busy. I'm just lazy I guess. We had a great Christmas. My mom came out and visited. We saw my sister and her family over break as well as my auntie and her little family too. She was brave enough to have me and minions (as their daddy calls them) over for a sleep over too!!! We all had a blast. We went to the snow, fell on the ice, fed the ducks and psycho seagulls that attacked. Trav has gone to a convention and is headed to another shortly. Sophie has begun to babble and has wrapped her daddy aroound her pinkie with her "da da da da da da" She scoots...backwards, rolls everywhere and oh yeah...growls. Joshua is now a cub scout and gets baptized in less than 2 weeks. Audrey participated in a Christmas program or two and spelling bee. Krystia and Ian marched in a parade, spend hours at school for drama, and got rockin' grades. Trav hurt his back pretty good recently and is on the mend just in time to throw it out of whack once again at a convention. I have juggled school and church meetings, failed at blogging, housekeeping, christmas card writing and the such. I have also entered the world of facebook...but my sister burst my bubble by informing me that I need to post pictures. I knda like the grey blue question mark. It's curvy, like me.

The end of an era...

for our family that is. When Krystia went off to speech in 99 we had no idea how many years we would spend in speech therapy. She'd go to a special pre-school twice a week and participate in speech therapy there. Then in homeschooling we'd travel down to the church building the charter school used to have more speech therapy 2 times a week. Off to public school and she was still in speech. Even in middle school she was still in speech... Well just last year she was exited out. I teared up a bit and was very happy to know she had reached that point.
In the midst of Krystia's speech career Mr. Josh came along and decided he didn't need to talk because everyone spoke for him! When he did begin speaking we could not understand what he was trying to say and he'd get soooo mad!!! I tired to get him into speech at the age of 3, no luck (darn therapist..I KNOW he qualified) anyhow before Kindergarten he "qualified" and had been in speech since. Just last week I had his annual IEP and he had his triennial review/test that we were going to go over. Well, he no longer qualifies! I have to admit he's improved dramatically...if only we could get him to slow down it'd be great!

Sooo after 8.5 years of speech, 13 IEP meetings, countless speech homework forms and a mountain of parental rights notification forms, we are done! I'm proud of my kiddos and how hard they work. I'm grateful for the wonderful speech therapists we've had throughout the years. Let's see what little miss Sophie does....speech or no speech. That question will be answered in about 2.5 to 3 years....