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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Celebrating A Birthday

The poster of Mikey pictures.
One of my favorite sayings now sits on Mike's desk.
Happy Birthday Sergeant Schultz!!!!


Well, we have survived another week. Mike celebrated his birthday on May 10th and enjoyed going to dinner and opening his presents; however he was not so fond of being embarassed at work. The jail was doing a pot luck dinner so I worked it out with another sergeant and the watch commander to go in and surprise Mike at work. (We all know that Mike likes to embarass and harass the rest of us so I figured it was payback time) I took a large cake, balloons, a poster with many pictures of Mike over the years, and a gift for his desk. I arrived and waited for the other officers to finish dutch oven cooking outside while Mike was inside getting things set up. To Mike's surprise, I came in when they brought the other food in. I don't think I have seen Mike that shade of red in a very long time. Everyone enjoyed it and thought it was great to see pics of Mike and to give him a bad time about his birthday.
Madison has officially lost her first two teeth. She had one of her permanent teeth coming in behind her baby teeth on the bottom. We went to the dentist and he went ahead and pulled the baby teeth so Madison is missing her two bottom teeth. She is so excited to get her big teeth and she was so very excited to have a visit from the toothfairy.
Mikes brother was married on May 10th; congratulations Tim and Beverly. They were married at sunrise on the beach in Florida. We were sorry that we couldn't be there but we will see them this summer when we are out there.
Damon and Madison are finishing up the last couple of weeks of school and getting ready for next year. They both will do the Alpine online school next year and we have ordered the curriculum for that. They each will do Math, Language arts, Spelling, Literature, Art, Science, History, and then Damon is taking German and Madison is taking French (because that language is fancy). Damon has one more field trip this year and they are going for a picnic in the children's garden at Thanksgiving point. Madison has a water day and a field day on her last week of school and she is really excited about that.
We are getting ready for Madison's spring dance recital next week. Damon will start football camp the beginning June and then will start his season in July. Madison will take a break for the summer and then will start dance again in august and will probably do soccer in the fall as well.
For everyone else, we are hanging in there and are working and trying to get all of our projects done before we are gone on vacation. Keep in touch.
Michelle

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