Another tooth gone for Josh

Last week Josh lost a tooth at school. He got to go to the office and get a special little container to put his tooth in. He was afraid the container might come open and the tooth might fall out, so he put it in his pocket so if the tooth fell out, it would just fall into his pocket. Sadly, by the time he made it home from school, the container was open in his pocket, and there was no tooth to be found in his pocket. So, he wrote a great letter to the tooth fairy explaining what had happened. And she still came! (It was his bottom right tooth--left in the picture)

This morning I got to go with Sara to register for Kindergarten. She did great. She knew everything they asked her. They gave her a book of "homework" that she can work on over the summer to get ready for Kindergarten. She's been working on it since we got home an hour ago. I'm pretty sure she'll have it all completed before the day is over. She's such a smart little thing and is soooo ready to start school.

This last week was a pretty lazy one. We spent a lot of time playing in the yard, doing yard work, doing house work, and just doing nothing in particular. Here's a picture of Aaron and Sara having otter pops yesterday. Aaron is really going to miss Sara when she starts school next year. And one of Nate--he's getting to the point where he plays pretty well with Aaron and Sara during the day (he thinks he's such a big kid).


Tonight I have to teach a class on gardening at our monthly relief society meeting. Hopefully it goes well. And in the morning Scott leaves for Alaska. He'll be gone 5 days (gets back Sunday night). This is the first time he's had to go at this time of the year. He usually goes for a week in July and then the 4 weeks in October, but now they've added on a week in April, too. We'll survive, but will be very happy to have him back home when it's done.

And in very happy news, Scott got a promotion of sorts at work. 5 1/2 years ago, he was brought on as an assistant to one of the two partners in the company. This partner knew he was preparing for retirement and wanted to train someone to be able to take over all of his accounts when he retired. Well, that day came about a month ago, and Ron Kennedy (who I adore) retired and Scott became the sole sales person on all of those accounts. I was really sad for him to retire--I have loved that Scott has been able to work so closely with him. He has always looked out for Scott, and for our family. He has trained Scott and prepared him to be on his own. I've kind of seen him as a second father to Scott these last 5 years. Those two eat together, travel together, are in meetings together, and I'm sure Scott is going to miss spending so much time with him. Anyway, I digress.... So, with Scott taking over the lead on these accounts (instead of being the assistant), his commission scale needed revised. We knew it was coming, and were trying to be patient till he could talk with the remaining partner, to find out exactly what the new commission would be. Yesterday he had the talk. It's a significant raise and Scott gets to move from his cubicle into an office. I'm still trying to let it really sink in. It's going to be such a relief financially for our family. It is truly an incredible blessing and I am so thankful for all of Scott's hard work to get him to where he is now.