Herring Family News

Well, school's out and summer is here :-) I finished winter and spring term with A's in both my Math classes. YEAH! :-) Micaela did wonderfully in 1st grade and graduated on to 2nd. She's very excited. She's finally lost both top teeth and was very anxious to show as many people as possible. Brian's working for a company called RUAN Transportation and seems to enjoy it enough. Not his dream but he's grateful for the work. I'm looking for a job and praying for something to come along soon. We're still working on the house and starting to consider getting it ready to sell. We hope it doesn't come to that, especially with the market so low right now. But we'll see how it goes over the summer. I'm not taking any classes over the summer and that should relieve some time in our schedules. Right now we're all getting over our summer colds and hoping that it passes soon since we're all pretty uncomfortable. We're also anxiously awaiting Amy's new baby to come. Any minute now. Also, Christina and Terrance's new little girl on the way in July. Our family's getting bigger and bigger. We're very proud of several accomplishments lately: Grandpa Terry Leder's writing his autobiography, Rebecca's 1st marathon, Evelena's soon graduation from Police Academy, Julia's new house and of course the new babies. We have a much anticipated trip to DisneyLand coming up in October. We're hoping that still goes through without a hitch. Finding a job or attending school full time may be a challenge but Micaela's pretty sure we're going :-) We'll be sure to take lots of pictures and post them when we get a chance. We've already had two fun trips to Champoeg State Park, an AMAZING trip to Tacoma, WA to see Terrance & Christina & Family, a "womens" weekend with Nana and all the sisters (it turned out to be a BIG family reunion which was sooo... GREAT :-) and a couple trips and over-nighters to Eugene. We have a lot planned for the summer and hope to be able to accomplish all our goals. We're just ready to start making lots and lots of fun family memories instead of just letting time fly by. Micaela entered the Canby Library summer reading program and got her first library card today. She's was completely thrilled. She was a bit bummed that she didn't get to put it in her own wallet but at least she'll have it for future use. We also want to have plenty of learning and active, activities this summer. We're getting more health concious and have a big desire to go hiking, rock climbing, traveling, camping and biking. There's also several sports we're learning like frisbee golf, raquet ball, volleyball, running/jogging, etc. We have a couple camping dates on the calendar and other fun activities through the city. We're really looking forward to a long and wonderful summer. We'll try to keep you updated as things go along.