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.