quick update

We haven't surfaced for awhile on here, so here's a quick update of our goings-on:

I'm extra busy at work these days, trying to impress the partners so that they'll vote me in as a shareholder next April. At our firm everyone is on a 5-year track out of law school; once you're 5 years out you are up for shareholder. Must work hard and do extra good work this next year. Kinda stressful, especially in "these troubled economic times" (spoken with the announcer's voice of doom), when work has dried up.

But I do have some fun things to look forward to. Robin and I are taking a scuba class so that we can scuba in September when we take the kids on a 5-day cruise down the Baja peninsula to Cabo San Lucas. Also, Robin and I have secured permits to go on a 2-day camping/hiking trip to Mount Whitney at the end of this month, going with a big group of family -- my Dad, my older brother, Michael, Robin's brother Wade and his wife, Sheri, and more extended family. Mt. Whitney is the tallest peak in the lower 48 states, so it will be quite the adventure.

Katie is in 3rd grade and loves to rock climb. We have her in a once-a-week class at a really great local rock climbing gym; she's a natural, and she participated in her first official climbing competition a couple of weekends ago. Will try to post pics later.

Rachel is in 1st grade and is quite the social butterfly. She is the unofficial cruise director of our kids. She is taking ballet and loves her little dog, Tuti, who she is attempting to re-name as "Oreo." We inherited the dog from the neighbors after their kid, a really good friend to our kids, developed an allergy to him.

Ethan and Parker (the twins) are in Kindergarten and have really taken to reading; their reading has just sky-rocketed this year; We read to them everynight, usually from one of my old Calvin and Hobbes books. They love it. Their favorite thing in the world is the Lego Star Wars game we got them for our Wii; they have completed every level of the game in just about 5 months.

Emily is 3 and is quite the little dictator. It's close competition, but she has beat out all of our other kids for the title of most stubborn at that age. She loves her older siblings and feels that she is quite capable of doing anything and everything they are doing; she loves to be with them and to be in the middle of things. She'll start pre-school this coming Fall.

So that's the current state of this Tenney family. Just a quick update.