January Family Newsletter

This month we have been getting back to normal. Back to school, back to 8:00 bedtimes for the kids and back to busy season (Mike's work). We went back to school on the 7th of January and the first week back was parent/teacher conferences. It was hard work. It takes a lot of time to prepare for conferences, so the first week back was pretty long. I recieved good reports from Amberley's and Brenton's teachers. Both of them are working hard and learning a lot. On top of doing parent/teacher conferences, the Saturday before I went back to work, my babysitter called me and told me that she got a new job and wouldn't be able to watch Jackson anymore. So I scrabbled trying to find a new sitter and I lucked out when I found a neighbor in the ward that was looking for kids to watch. She lives on the same street as us and has five kids. One is in kindergarten so they get to play together. It worked out perfectly.
During the third week of January, Mike's parents came down to visit for a few days. It worked out perfectly because Mike and I had a trip planned to Reno for the weekend. So instead of the kids staying with a family friend, they got to stay home with Grandma and Grandpa Justice.
Brenton basketball season is continuing. He is doing great and trying hard. Next month Brenton and Jackson are starting baseball. It looks like we will be spending a lot of time at the baseball parks.
Amberley and Jackson are contiuning with swimming. Both of them are learning a lot, but Amberley is making great strides. The first week of her new class, the teacher came up to me and said Amberley is too advanced and needed to move up other class. She is really enjoying swimming.
Mike is busy with busy season. He is in-charging McGladrey's biggest client. On top of that, the client decided to move up their filing date by about four weeks so Mike has had to put in a lot of hours. It has been a lot of pressure on him but he is doing well. The one good thing about this is that after Febraury 15th Mike will be pretty much done with his busy season.
Along with all the things Mike is doing he somehow found the time to open the Justice Family blog. We invite all of you to visit our new website at http://justicelivin.blogspot.com/
One last bit of good news. After being married for nearly ten years, our family is attending nine o'clock church for the first time. I love it. Being in a huge ward for the past two years, it's caused us to have one o'clock church but someone figured out that if we put primary first and switch the other wards in our building we would be able to attend the earlier time. So our ward is still huge but finally we get the earlier time.
Finally, we were saddness by the lose of President Hinckley this past month. Ever since I can remember President Hinckley has been a member of the first presidence. He will be greatly missed.

Love, The Justices