Battle Ground Poultons

I have invited many of you to author on this blog.  As I get more email addresses I will send out more invitations.  So for those of you who venture on here, let me know of any missing people/addresses and I will add them as an author.

I have enjoyed chatting with some on facebook but I thought a "family only" blog might be nice to fill everyone in on what is happening in our lives.  So....I guess I will start.  I am a little new to this so bear with me.

The start of the new year has been fairly smooth for the Battle Ground Poultons.  As many of you may already know, we added a new member to our family at Christmas. 

Her name is Addison Maybell, "Addiebell"  for short.  She has quickly turned from a sweet, demure little Australian Terrier into a chewing, biting, peeing, pooping, cat-chasing Australian TERROR!  We love her but the Dog Whisperer I am not!  I am frantically reading up on how to nip the poor behaviors in the bud.  HA - right!! 

On the bright side, our addition of  Addie seems to have mellowed out our psychotic cat, Kaia.  She used to attack us when we would try to pet her, but now she is so starved for attention that she wants all she can get.  The poor thing has been relegated to the highest perch on her cat post, as it is the only place the dog can't get to her.  So now we have four girls in the house, which may very possibly be two too many!

As for the human side of our family...Breanne is still in Tae Kwon Do..  She is currently at blue belt.  She also continues to take voice lessons.  She sings quite often with the high school choir (her teacher is the choir director).  She has a "gig" coming up soon for the Battle Ground High School Auction.  I know it sounds cheesy but it is kind of a big deal in our little town.  A formal dinner/entertainment is held for all the guests which will include the mayor and city officials as well as us peons. :) 

I am still at the primary school.  I LOVE my job! Not only do I get to work with some pretty great people but I also have all the kids to keep things interesting!  I have started a file of "kids say the darndest things."  Maybe between Anna, Andrew, Lanette, and the rest of us working in the schools we can compile a great book to publish!  The only thing that could make my job any better is if they paid me to go visit my family!  I guess until that happens I am in pretty good shape.  I have also received a new calling.  I was Breanne's sunday school teacher and now I am the second counselor in the YW and her Beehive advisor.  Poor girl just can't escape me!  If she can put up with me I think it will be a very fun calling.  Then again, I'll let you know if I feel differently after going to girls camp!

We are looking forward to a visit to St. George soon, so we may hopefully get to see some of you along the way.  We love you and miss you all.  The family is getting so large and spread out that it is hard to keep up with everyone.  Please drop a line here as often as possible so that we can remember what matters most - our AWESOME family.  We are so very blessed!  Love to you all!!!!