Where have we been?

The last few weeks have been eventful. Jeffrey has had two weekends in a row travelling, which makes life on the homefront very interesting. Thankfully we had the Winter Olympics to watch each evening. Sandwiched between travel, we tried to celebrate my 30th birthday, but with little success due to sickness (Jeffrey caught an awful cold) and family schedule. Therefore, I am still in my 20's! However, I think this weekend celebration is about to occur. Kelanie, my roomate from college, is visiting so Friday night will be girls' night out on the town. A family party will follow sometime later. This is of great interest to the kids because they want to know when we are finally going to eat cake.
Grace is now crawling, but not at high speed. She is content to crawl across the room to explore something of interest and then hang out for awhile before trying somewhere new. The other kids are thrilled and perplexed. Thrilled because she is such a big girl. Perplexed because she thinks she is such a big girl and it is time to play with all the toys she has seen lying around!

We had a snowy day a couple of weekends ago- and yes, Katherine is trying to make a snow angel in our powdery dusted yard. We have not had enough to really play in yet.

Jonathan is busy teaching Grace how to play the bongos. She really enjoys the attention from her big brother.

Having Kelanie here was so helpful at the park yesterday. It was the first day in many months since we have been at a park. Boy are the kids a lot bigger and braver. David has no fear of anything. I don't know if I can keep up with all of them by myself. Needless to say, Kelanie was a big hit and quite exhausted herself.