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Nicholas won a very special award at school, he is a Dynamic Dolphin – more details soon, and more pics of this prestigious occasion. Long Live Saint Nicholas!

Nick and I own a model Helicopter that doesn’t work so great; but I’m working on stealing Jennys camera and fly it up high to take wonderous video – video coming soon.

Not much to report – its been stressful at work, and have been kinda down at home – but my family is picking me up. This weekend we plan major changes to the house hold. We have a problem. And that is – the problem stems from too many toys – and since we are now allowed to give less fortunate kids – our kids toys (theyd rather see them rot in boxes) we are reorganizing. A different tactic. Basically we are working on moving the toys into their respective owners bedrooms. This is an attempt to clean up the downstairs which looks more like Chuck-e-cheeses everyday. Once that is resolved – things will be easier to manage downstairs and the kids will finally have some sense of having their own ‘bedroom’. Lauren and Emily still prefer to be in their own room, and of course Nick gets his. So major changes – an overhaul of the great toy problem which plagues the Russell household.

Nicholas writing is freakin’ amazing!!! ‘My favorite movie is Wall-e’

Lauren is addicted to dresses. Be it in the grocery store; in bed; in a park; anyway – Lauren has to wear a dress. & not just any dress. A ‘Gaa-Ga’ – is a dress usually with flowers on it, and costume like. This presents a problem, because she gets very hot at night. But if we attempt to take it off, the screaming commences ‘GAA – GA GAA – GA’ – if she gets it wet, we have to take it off, and she is miserable – so she has reserve Gaa – ga’s just in case. A serious; serious addiction.

We have purchased a phone set which is wireless and the base system will plug into the MagicJack. Our new phone system will now be put through even more tests and we will go live soon. We have been very pleased with the quality of the network – it is unbelievable really how high the quality is. We do have some issues – I think the worst Ive had is a call to a cell phone – but that is pretty rare that we do that. We’ll see how it goes.

We had a great time in Charlotte, NC and are happy to be back home. The kids were very happy to have us back. We purchased them some puppets which made them made them even happier. Heres a pic of one of the puppets.

Jenny and I are having a great time in Charlotte – we didn’t know at the time of booking, but there is a big basketball game ‘bobcats something’ so the atmosphere is great. We hit Lonestar for dinner, then went to a local mall cos we like the barnes and noble there. Finally went to target to get some bedtime snacks and watch a movie in bed. Which I’m sure will cost a million dollars. I’m not sure where the kids are but I am sure they are doing just fine.