Yesterday was Lorena’s first day of class at Linn-Benton Community College. Last spring she took a ceramics class just so she could get into the system. This fall she is taking intermediate algebra. If she passes this class, she only has one more math class to complete for a bachelors degree. It is going to be tough, but she is very focused on getting through it. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, Lorena drops the kids off with me at work to go to here class between 4:00 and 5:50. I will come in a little early and get off a little early so I can take care of the kids while Lorena is in class.

Yesterday we found out that the kids who live across the empty lot in front of our house are buying the house that will be in the empty lot! That is great news. Halley is four years old and tells us that she is going to “home preschool.” Jacob is seven years old in the second grade and Hannah is eight years old in the third grade. Hannah and Christian were in the same class in the second grade last year at Fir Grove Elementary school. The family has been living with Hannah’s mother’s parents as they were in a bad neighborhood. Word has it that the house will be completed by some time in February.

I received an email from the Rizo family this morning letting us know that they can make it up to Oregon in late February for our annual skiing trip at Mt. Bachelor. That is VERY exciting. I sent a note to my brother Doug who will make the arrangements for a great timeshare in Redmond. Now we are only waiting on Lauro and Dayana. We surely hope they can make it.