April 27th-I turn 50 on the 29th-hard to believe. My friend Debbie and I went out to eat the other night to celebrate both of our birthdays-we had a great time. Tomorrow- Emily, Carolyn and I are going out to dinner with the Grays( Bill, Lyland, Carolyn and Reid) to celebrate my birthday. It should be a good time. Chris was going to get me a new ipod for my birthday so I went ahead and got one for myself. It came in yesterday so I have been spending time ripping my cds to put them onto the ipod. It is a video ipod so I downloaded a movie and TV program to try them out-the picture quality is great, but the screen is only about 3 inches square.

School has been busy-we had state testing this week and have more of it the first of next week. Because the regular schedule is changed for testing the kids have been wild! It is hard to believe we only have a month of school left. The last day for students is May 30th. I am looking forward to spending time sitting out at the pool in the sun. The girls and I will be traveling to the Chicago area for my niece's wedding at the end of June. I am attending a conference in Florida for school in mid- July and we begin school in early August-summer will fly by!

It is weird with Chris not around, it is hard to believe he died almost 2 months ago. I have been busy doing all of the "paperwork" for insurance policies and changing accounts to just my name. Just when i think I have it all done, I think of another thing that needs to be change. Being the computer geek that I am, I'm trying to do as much as I can electronically-it is much faster than "snail mail."

Thank you to everyone for the cards -it has been overwhelming to see the all of the donations that have been made in memory of Chris-A fine tribute to a fine man. Thanks. Mary Jo