Finally updating! New computer for Mom and Dad only!

We were having such computer problems. It seemed like every week Barry had to fix it. So we now have a computer for the kids and one for us. Hopefully, this is going to keep us up and running!

We haven't been doing too much so really you all haven't missed anything. Our friends John, Katie and Julie Ann came over and hung out with us one afternoon. The teepee was a big hit as you can see. So was the dirt hole out back which was very muddy. We sent the kids home covered in dirt but I think they all had fun. It was a cold day so Barry lit the fire and we just did our "thing". I wanted to share some of the pictures from that day. Julie Ann and Wyatt are in the same pre-school class and Cooper actually went to preschool with Katie. So cute!

I will try and do a quick run down on a few things. I am going to try and get better at updating.

Cooper's Kindergarten class got a visit from a local t.v. station weather man. They filmed it and aired it this morning at 5:10 a.m. and 6:10. I managed to get up in time. I had to wake everyone up! And I really do not like doing that! I couldn't take the guilt if he missed it. Coop's face was on there two times so that was exciting for him to see. Barry watched it on one of the smaller t.v.s so he missed it. While we watched it on wide screen and Cooper made it in! The station had a bunch of typing at the bottom of the screen. So it blocked some kids. It reminds me of the scene in Monsters Inc. when Mike sees himself on t.v. but part of him was blocked and he says "I was on T.V.!"

Wyatt is doing so much better at preschool. He is coming home and telling stories of all that he is doing there. He likes to sing the songs from music. Starting to open up too with the other kids.

Today he said "that Julie Ann is so funny" and I asked him if he ever plays with Tyler(he lives down the street from us so thought maybe he could get to know him) he said "I try but he always moves away" but he wasn't upset by it.

Max has been having lots of fun playing with his friends in the neighborhood. He is working on a paper mache' mask and is so excited to be painting it. They have been really focusing on math

and he is trying to memorize his multiplications which they are being tested on with a stop watch. This has put some stress on him but he is working through it.

We have joined the racquet club......again. We weren't using it for awhile so we closed our membership. The boys are getting older and it is easier to get them in and out of there and now that there are no diapers and everyone can dress themselves it isn't so much work to go. I am starting to swim again and hope that this will help the arthritis/joint problem and give me some strength again to enjoy some other things.

I am counting the days until I can feel spring and I am starting to look forward to getting the garden going again. We dehydrated so many tomatoes last season and I didn't think that we would eat them all but we just finished off the last bag. So when I am sick of those things next summer I need to force myself to dry just a few more!