March already?

It's been busy, busy, busy at our house. Nothing too exciting really, but time seems to fly by with the busyness of family life. On one hand I keep saying, "March already??" and on the other hand I'm thinking, "Is winter EVER going to end this year???" Our family has about had it with the winter and being cooped up. Hopefully another month or so and we'll be out of the woods! We've had some pretty bad snow storms over the past few weeks, and it seems that every time we have one I'm having to work and commute in the middle of the worst of it! I've had three pretty scary drives home over the past few weeks. Last night was the worst by far. Not fun driving on an unplowed freeway with several inches of snow on top of ice, white-out conditions and a bunch of psycho drivers going too fast and barreling up on you (including semis and buses!!!). My 30 minute commute turned into almost an hour and a half. YUCK! Driving back in to work about 17 hours later I was thinking to myself, "funny that the very same freeway can be completely dry not 24 hours later!"

Anyway, enough griping about the weather from me! :) As far as "fun" news, N continues to keep us on our toes! She has two older sibs to keep up with, and she's doing a good job at trying just that! She RUNS and SPRINTS to get into things! She loves to talk and is saying more and more words. She initiates kisses and "loves" and games of peek-a-boo and stuff. She is infatuated with her "shoes" which are a pair of the leather Robeez booties. They are AMAZING for the hardwood floors (otherwise in socks she face plants!) and she says, "Shhhhssss" whenever she sees them. She will carry them around and bring them to someone to put on her if they aren't already on her. :) They're just the cutest things ever! I need to get a picture of her wearing them.

P had the recent honor of being "crowned" class representative for homecoming. Each teacher picked a student from their class and she was chosen for first grade! :) She got a neat certificate, crown, and a bag of goodies from her teacher. We took some pictures of her in the "royal throne". I'll have to get some posted as well. We are very proud of her and how well she's doing in school. She is a great student and is a loving help at home.

K is continuing to do great in preschool. He enjoys it very much and continues to flourish. He still loves his tractors. Tractors are pretty much his passion in life. He eats, sleeps, and talks tractors 24/7. :) He is a character and lots of fun!

D and his brother just spent this past weekend working on our laundry room. They plumbed in a new washtub and made the water drain pipe from the washer connect directly into the plumbing, and not into the tub any more! Yay! They also began to lay down new flooring over the old nasty asbestos tiles (yikes!) that were in there. It looks soooo much better, and we can't wait for the rest of the remodeling. It's fun to see the process!

I'm at work blogging again, so hope to get some photos uploaded soon! :) More soon....