Back to normal with a bump in the road

Today was an interesting day at school. The short story is that we had a lockdown. There was a local bank robbery and the armed robber had tried to escape on foot and headed towards the schools. So as a precaution, we locked down the school. There was scary moments when we didn't know why we were locked down or what was going on, but all in all it all worked out okay.

Ahren had choir practice at church after school, so I tried a new adventure - taking both kids downtown on our bikes. I was a bit of a nervous wreck, but they both did well. The three of us biked to church and then Sean and I biked to DQ and he got a milkshake, I got a drink and we picked up a Blizzard for Ahren. Then we biked back to church and chilled while we waited for Ahren to finish up and we all biked home.

Tuesday early evenings are a funny time at church. There are bunches of moms and kids and they have a little potluck-ish thing that they do, someone makes dinner and brings it for everyone and everyone has a little dinner while they are hanging out waiting for the kids and stuff. It's really pretty cool. I'm feeling like I'm going to need to start contributing to the meal stuff, since lately I've been waiting for Ahren while she is in choir.

Not much happening here

Well, I've not written anything in quite a while and although there have been things happening, not much that is really that exciting:

• Ahren turned 10 this month. She celebrated by ditching school for a day and going with Dad to NYC to see Tarzan on Broadway with 5th row seats!! The NYC trip was instead of a big birthday party. Her big birthday present will be a puppy (once school is out) - some kind of retriever or lab.
  
• Pete was denied life insurance - which really stinks and we are planning to talk with his cardiologist about exactly why, in the meantime, we will work on converting his term insurance to whole life - thankfully we got some initial life insurance about 7 years ago.
  
• Things are going well at school - classes filling up for next year and my wheels are spinning about what I want to change and update and rework.
  
• Me and the kids have been bike riding like crazy. It helps that they both got bigger bikes with gears and handbreaks. I've taken them both downtown individually and I'm hoping that by the time VBS starts we will all be able to ride each day back and forth (weather permitting). My goal this summer is to trick out my bike with some side baskets (for runs to the grocery store) and a light on the back and front for nighttime riding. I really want to get to the point where I don't jump in the car to make a quick trip to stop-n-shop, but ride there instead.