Hello Friends

Hello everyone. We miss you. Please quit your jobs and move to Kennewick. I wrote everyone Christmas cards, but never sent them. We have been pretty busy. Anyway, I thought I would update everyone on the saga of the Fianders.

OJ has been very busy at work. Columbia Fitness is doing well, you know with the new health craze. The clubs are busy... we just opened club number six in Pendleton. We're working on two expansions and will be opening two more clubs between now and summer. Also, OJ also just expanded Mango Tango. So he is pretty busy and he loves what he is doing. I'm not really sure how much I love it though. OJ works 60+ house / week, he is on the phone or the computer most of the time and worst of all he has never let me have one red cent from Club 24. He is always careful to make time for us. He takes us with him on many of his business trips, and we visit him at work a few times/ week (I'm sure we drive him crazy). He has actually been working from home a few hours/ week.

I've been busy taking care of kids and trying to get our house finished. We have been working on it for 5 years now. It's almost finished. Just have the yard left. OJ is going to build us a house as soon as he gets some time.... so never. We are trying to get the kids involved in their native heritage so we have been driving over to Toppenish every Tuesday so that the kids can learn to Powow dance, drum, and sing. OJ and Aspen are really getting pretty good at dancing. Wyatt sits in with the drum group, and Avery and Aponi do thier thing. It's pretty cool.

Aspen is already 10. She is in the 4th grade. She is playing piano and basketball. She's pretty cool. She is already starting to babysit for us when OJ and I go out for a few minutes. She has been such a help with Aponi.

Wyatt is 7. He is going to be 8 on May 3rd, so he'll be getting baptized. He can't wait becuase he gets his first knife when he turns 8 and he gets to go to cub camp. We have our first powow two days after his baptism so that will be pretty special for him. He is playing Basketball and Baseball. He puts up with school, but he doesn't love it. He is totally into Harry Potter. We have been reading the series every night. He is already on book 3. He is just like his dad.

Avery is 5. She is something else. She is in preschool a couple of days a week. She could have started kindergarten this year but OJ wasn't ready to let her go. She is so wild. The other day she told me that it was OK if she didn't eat healthy because fat people are still beautiful. She said I was fat and I'm still beautiful. Nice huh! She likes adventure and taking care of her brother and sisters.

Aponi, our baby. She is already 15 months old. She is awesome. I think she is the sassiest little girl ever born. OJ and I really like her. We are really taking the time to enjoy her. I'm pretty sure she is going to be a spoiled little princess. She likes to give everyone lickers.

We miss everyone, and hope to see you soon. We are talking about going to Chicago in October for a club show. Also, my sister is living in New york and we are talking about taking a road trip for a few weeks during the summer. So we may be over that way. We are actually going to go to California march 1st -the 7th if anyone is going to be over this way. OJ has a club show so we are taking the kids to Disney, seworld, zoo, etc. Love you guys. The Fianders.