Nothing New

There's not a whole lot that's new going on here.  Megan is growing, she's now 4 months old.  She'll go see the doctor tomorrow for her 4 month check up while Logan's in school.  Wednesday mornings we're still at the zoo for the Biopark Beginnings class which Logan seems to really enjoy. 

Dan and I went to see Wicked last weekend for Valentine's Day.  It was a great show and we had a great time.  The traveling company was here for 3 weeks, with a show every night and 2 on Saturday's and Sunday's, and I think they were sold out at every show.  I know they were sold out at our show. 

Here's a few pictures from the past week or so. 

It's officially baseball season-the pitches are warming up!

Have a good rest of February. Now that it's finally starting to warm up here, we'll probably start spending more time outside.  We would love to fix up our backyard and make it a fun place to play for the kids, so we're slowly working toward that.  Until then though, we'll be at the park. 

Birthday Parties, The Flu, and More

We've had a pretty rough week here.  I think though we're finally done with it.  Before our challenging week started Logan and Megan were invited to their friend Addie's birthday party.  Addie turned 3 and she had a dinosaur birthday party.  Logan was so excited for the party.  We knew there would be a clown there to do face painting and balloon animals so he was looking forward to that all week.  Mary O'Net the Clown was very nice, funny and did magic tricks too.  Logan got to help her do some of the magic tricks and was very impressed with it all.  Then she did face painting, Logan didn't want his face painted so he got his hand painted instead.  He wanted a 'wild animal' so Mary O'Net did a tiger, she also made him a tiger balloon animal later.  Addie had a huge birthday cake and Logan and Megan had a great time. 

Then our week began...Monday night and into Tuesday a huge storm hit New Mexico, we knew the storm was coming along with wind and freezing temps so we were prepared for that.  What we weren't prepared for was Logan coming down with the flu on Tuesday.  He was sick all day, didn't eat anything, finally kept some pedialite down and had a couple crackers at the end of the day.  Wednesday he was better and back to his normal self.  But by now it was too cold to play outside in the snow.  New Mexico was hit with record low temperatures and Thursday was worse.  We woke up to -7 degrees with the wind chill it was more like -24, just horrible.  All Albuquerque schools were cancelled Tuesday-Friday. Kids will finally go back on Monday.  Because of the cold temperatures there were gas shortages all over NM so the governor asked everyone to turn their thermostats down by 10 degrees to conserve gas.  Friday government offices were closed to conserve gas.  Back to the flu, Dan felt sick a couple of days that week and then it hit Ruth Thursday night.  She was sick all night Thursday and Friday.  Finally on Saturday things finally improved.  Everyone is back to normal, hopefully we're all done being sick for the year.  I think between colds and the flu we've been sick for about 3 weeks.  Fortunately Megan has caught any of it.  Things should be back to normal this week.  Everyone is healthy and while the weather isn't back to normal at least we're not in negative temps anymore.  

Here's a few pictures from the birthday party. 

 Logan getting his hand painted.

 The tiger on his hand.  He was so pleased with it. 

 Then it was balloon animal time.

 Cake of course, poor Bethany (Mom of 5) forgot to get ice cream.  But no one minded :) 

 Everyone was sent home with a gift bag with a plastic dinosaur, bubbles and more.  They even made Megan a special gift bag with a stuffed dinosaur and a pacifier. 

Here's some other pictures we've taken in the past few weeks. 



 Ready for church this morning.

 These were taken about a week ago.  I made the headband for her so I was taking some pictures of her in it. 

We're hoping for a less exciting and warmer week here than last week. Hope your week goes well too.