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Hi Everyone! I'm trying to post something on the blog, but I made a mistake and created a new blog! Both Joe & I thought it was posted, but then we realized our mistake, so here I go again with a fresh attempt! We really want to send pictures of our house here, some of the antiques in the house, and also our yard,etc., but we can't figure out how to do that. We'll send them at some point though, we just need some direction, I guess. We've been having a good year here. Besides having a very nice home, the weather has been wonderful. It's pretty much warm and sunny every day! It gets windy fairly often, but it's not too bad. Happily, we've seen quite a lot of Luke and Maddie, for which we're very grateful. Unfortunately, we haven't seen as much of Clint, but he's got a lot going on. He's very excited about his new job in Farmington because it's more of a regular job with regular hours, the salary is significantly higher, and it's secure. With his current position there's a continuing threat that it's going to close down and Clint didn't feel secure at all there. We went with Luke and Maddie to an historical site one day last week (they were on Easter break) of a mission from the 1600's. There were ruins of the church and surrounding buildings, etc which supported the people of that time in that community. A Fransiscan priest had started it and, later another Fransiscan priest joined him there to live among and convert the Indians. It was really interesting. The day following the mission trip we all took a train called the Rail Runner to Albequerque. The Rail Runner makes several runs per day between here and Albequerque, stopping at various small towns on the way. After arriving in Albequerque, we rode a free bus called Rapid Ride to the Aquarium and other attractions in that area. It was a lot of fun. We ate dinner at a restaurant in the Aquarium which was bordered on two sides with part of the Aquarium, so,while we ate, we could view many varieties of fish swimming around, including sharks, and some rather unusual looking turtles! We enjoyed it. Yesterday Joe and I got some wonderful news about Luke. Clint and Molly went to a conference about Luke and they learned he's getting B's in all his subjects except math where he is getting a C plus. This is mainstream classroom work, not special ed. and he's doing ninth grade work. We were overjoyed to hear that! It's a real answer to prayer! Luke and Maddie are coming to Minnesota this summer from July 15th to August 5th. Their parents are driving them to Dallas for their flight because it's so much cheaper and it's easy to get a nonstop flight. We had a very enjoyable lunch with Clint this past Tuesday and we're meeting him again tomorrow for lunch. We have to get our time in with him because he'll be leaving for Farmington and the new job which begins April 21st. Molly and Luke and Maddie will be here in Belen until Luke's school year is finished at the end of May. Well, I'd better close. We'll try to send photos soon!