Over the last three months I feel like I've either been freezing or sitting at my computer typing my fingers to the bone. Spring has been cold and my doctors who I type for have been busy. In between all that we've had some significant birthday celebrations at our house! I love birthdays! Jared joined the ranks of teenagerhood and celebrated with bowling and hanging out with his best buddies.
Jared continues to be a joy and a privilege to have in our home. My one complaint is that I have to keep buying him clothes to keep up with his rapid growth rate. I suppose that's a good problem to have!
Grandma turned the big 6-0 this year! We celebrated by surprising her with a birthday treasure hunt. Grandma is famous for the treasure hunts she creates for the grandkids, spending hours figuring out how to do the clues and how to make them rhyme. The kids love it! Her treasure hunt included a long walk, a stop at My Fro Yo, a boat ride (complete with getting dive bombed by swarms of bees which was not planned but made for lots of screaming and laughter), the movie Hop and dinner at Famous Dave's.
We feel blessed every day to have both sets of grandparents close and involved in our daily activities and are supportive and loving to our family.
Then, all of a sudden, I blinked and had a 16-year-old! I still can't believe it! She had quite a festive celebration with somewhere around 25 or so kids running in and out of the house, singing karaoke and eating and socializing! We wouldn't have it any other way (well Nate might, but he was a good sport and even made an appearance a time or two).
Amanda always amazes and surprises us! There is never a dull moment yet when its crunch time we see her strength, talents and commitment to do what is right. She has been one busy 16 year old but more on that to come!
Just kidding. That was from February when we went to visit the Fuhrs for the weekend...it has been cold, though!
We watched a lot of this. We love this team! They are really good--I'm not being biased at all! We sometimes stop at this happening town on our way home:
All because of this place--best Mexican food!!! 
Here we are again with the freezing....
It was well worth it to see this guy play baseball! Watching 4-6 year-olds play coach pitch is the cutest thing ever! We also watched Megan play some exciting soccer, Jared earn the most hits of anyone on the 8th grade B team he played for (he was nervous about playing up with older boys but it turned out to be a great experience), and Amanda do great in track, overcome being injured and compete at districts in two events this year!
Also really enjoyed a springtime hike up Badger Mountain that Megan and I went on for activity days for the 8-9 year old girls at church. I don't think I've ever hiked it when the wildflowers are all in bloom like this--it was quite pretty!
