This week has already been very busy - but then when is it not? I hate that most of the time all I have to say is "we're really busy". I think everyone is, but sometimes I feel overwhelmed by it all...anyone with me?

The past few days have been running around trying to get an appointment for Raymond to get his Eagle Book reviewed - very frustrating! We have so many people 'helping' that at times it leads to a break down in communication. So after 3 weeks and literally 10 + attempts, Raymond finally got his 1st review done on his book. This Sat. he has his final book review - once that is passed off then he goes before the board. Problem is his board review is on June 19th and his Court of Honor is on June 22nd. Call me crazy but I HATE planning things unless I know something is for sure. There is very little room for error here. His Scout somebody (friend's Mom who has really worked with the boys in getting to Eagle - wonderful woman!) has been organizing the Court of Honor and events leading up to it. It's been good and she & her family have been wonderful taking Raymond here and there, getting his book in order but it's still frustrating. She has pushed that all the Eagles (there are 4) have a shared Court of Honor. I disagreed. I wanted Raymond to have his own, especially after all this aggravation and stress in trying to get everything shoved in to a few days before the Court of Honor. But Blair told me to leave it - she's worked hard to get them this far. So he thinks if we should respect it and it doesn't matter as long as Raymond gets his Eagle. Yeah .. I guess.

I finally told her we need to ALL plan it as I want a say in what happens. She was very accommodating and we are meeting quickly after Church to discuss. She basically has it in her head how she wants it but I may have different ideas. I'm sure this meeting will be interesting.

Oh yeah - so as I'm reading up on Eagle CoH and what you need to do, it says the parents are to request congratulatory letters from dignitaries and the such to present to the Eagle Scout during the ceremony. So I write the letters and send them off only to find out she's already done it! Pissed me off she didn't tell me she did it. I called her tonight about it and she said "Oh now, we do that" I said - 'actually the PARENTS are supposed to do that'. She quickly agreed and I played nice and thanked her for all her effort. His letters have already started coming in so he may have duplicates as most that I wrote to she already had. But I did write to his Principle, Superintendent and to Gov. Schwazenegger and she didn't. So hopefully those will come through and be added.

Work has been extremely hectic as we have hired a new marketing consultant. I didn't like him at first - usually I'm a good judge right off the bat but it seems I missed the boat on him. Totally didn't think he liked me or wanted to work with me - he's extremely cool/hip/trendy and completely networked up in action sports. LOL we are extreme opposites. But I have found him to be very real, down to earth, has great perspectives and fantastic connections. I'm really looking forward to working with him. :-)

Ugh - today was Corina's Achievement Day and I forgot to call someone to pick her up. I was so bummed but she said she was ok. Bad Auntie :-(

We had a little scare with Savanah on Monday. Sunday morning she had woken up and her pinky and ring finger were swollen. The area in between was red so I thought she had been bit. She complained a few times and nothing else. Monday when I dropped her off at school she had never said anything about her hand hurting. The nurse called later that day because her fingers were so swollen. Blair picked her up and called in sick to be with her. By the time I got home, she had just woken up from her nap and her entire hand was swollen and red streaks appeared. Off to ER it was for me and her. We got in pretty quick and while the Dr. was not happy it was so swollen he was ok that it wasn't super bad. So he drew his little line around the redness and sent us home with a prescription of anit-biotics and instructions that if the redness goes beyond the line to start her on the meds. Thankfully it didn't and as of today (Wed.) her had is better.

What bit her you ask? Well my daughter likes to chase bees on the playground and was stung last Thurs. the Dr. thinks it's a reaction to that as neither of us could find a new bug bite... weird huh?

Chad is running at a feverish pace to pull up his grades. He was doing so well for a while but after we got back from UT they all went down again. I think we caught it in time for him to get B's and C's but if he had kept up the good work before we would be looking at A's and B's. He was so close! So alas, I think his dream of getting Rock Band will have to remain a dream. Blair made the deal with him that if he can bring home at least 4 A's, he can have Rock Band. Awww.. the other kids are bummed out as well since they were really looking forward to getting it too. Lesson learned.

This Sat. Blair and Corina are going to our Stake's Daddy/Daughter dinner and Powder Puff Derby. Corina's excited and thankfully Blair got the day off. So they've been working on and off since Sat. on her car. They worked on the design together, had the car cut out and now are in the sanding phase. She really liked learning to sand was quite proud to show me :-) Tomorrow and Friday will be painting and final decorations. It sounds like a fun event.