Good "Will"

I love Sunday because it really is the only day of rest we have anymore. Even though we have our Church responsibilities I look forward to the quietness of Sunday all week. I have Beef Stroganoff in the crock pot and rolls rising, and Nicholas outside screaming and playing in the backyard. Nothing like a child to bring you back to reality :).

Yesterday we went to Blair in the morning and had donuts with Henry and Joni. I got to hold little Henry Max who is too cute. We had a nice time and came home and did some shopping and hung out. We went to the GoodWill store to wander around.... which reminds me of a cute story I would like to share with you.

In January Nick said the cutest thing ever. We were cleaning out the storage room, and had been working on it for a while. We had a running pile of things to go to good will. During our work Nick approached Richard with an old tool and said "Dad, do you think we should give this one to good Will's dad?" Of course, Richard was puzzled and looked at Nick until he realized what he was implying. Richard than asked "Nicholas, what is good will?" Nick responded that it was a really nice kid who probably lived somewhere close who needed a bunch of our stuff. We about died laughing, so yesterday it was fun to take him into the actual Goodwill store so he could see what we were talking about. I thought it was so innnocent and darling. How funny to think of putting all your old things in a pile for the kid down the street... "Good Will." Happy days ahead for all of you.
Until next time.

Blessed

I can't believe that Richard and I have been together for almost 12 years. It just boggles my mind that we have done so much and been to many places together, and it just feels like it has flown by. I feel so completely blessed to be in the place that we are in our life. I am glad that I know that no matter where we are in our life that we are in it together. Our children are darling, we love eachother, and we are blessed with the gospel, a wonderful job, and a lovely home. I just felt overwhelmed this evening by all my blessings. Sometimes it is good to think only of what is great in our lives, rather than what is wrong. Just my two-cents for the day:)!

I am excited to be doing this, and I hope that my good friends will keep in contact with us and leave comments. Today we are so excited, we are going to hit 60 degrees! The kids wore shorts to school today, even though the start temp was still below freezing!! Last weekend we saw lots of family in Wakonda. Cory was in town, and so we saw him, Henry, Joni and their group and of course all the Wakonda crew... Mom, Dad, Joel,Kira and boys. It was a lot of fun. Shelley had this weird rash while we were there. Come to find out she had fifth disease... sounds scary, but it is a common childhood virus that when it is all done you get this weird rash on your cheeks and on your body. Thankfully when the rash appears they are no longer contagious.... phew, we were around all that family, I was glad to find out that she could no longer share the love :).

DeJay and Melissa and their cute kids are coming this weekend! We are so excited to see them again! I will write more soon!

First Post

I am starting to join the high tech world of blogging. Hopefully I am smart enough to figure out how to make it look cute and actually get pictures on here, and to be able to navigate my way back to this when Joni isn't helping me :)

This week we are still freezing our tooshies off here in the arctic tundra, aka, Nebraska. We are hoping that Spring is coming sooner than later. Here is a quick update on our family. I am the proud new owner of a beautiful black baby grand piano. It was such a thrill to invest in myself.....er my business, and now I have the pleasure of teaching piano on an amazing instrument. Richard is working on many projects at work and staying busy on his Body for Life program. 21 pounds and counting! Go Richard!!!

Matthew performed in a honors choir 2 weeks ago with about 200 other fifth and sixth graders. He was in a group called "Singing around Nebraska." He had a lot of fun, but at the actual performance we worried he was going to fall over from heat stroke. What a thrill to see him sing and sound so amazing with the other children. We will post the audio when we get the C.D. in the mail. He is doing well in piano and is looking forward to baseball this spring.

Shelley is enjoying taking clogging. She is quite the clogger, I hear little tappity taps from the storage room in the Basement constantly. She also is quite the piano player, I can't keep her off the new piano.

Nick, oh Nick, oh to talk about Nick. He is the entertainment daily for our family, he is the most precocious 5 year old, you will hear many things about him in posts to come. Summer is coming, which means he will probably be peeing in the neighbors sandbox, or just on random neighbors trees. You think I am joking......

Holly is talking up a storm and yesterday took a baby doll and grabbed a wipe and diaper. I watched her out of the corner of my eye as she said "EWWWE, Gross, poopy butt." She wiped and wiped her baby's bottom with her wipe with much disgust. Too cute!

I hope that I continue to keep you posted on the events and adventures we have in our life. Right now we are in good old Wakonda, Sd with my parents and lots of family. I feel so blessed to have them so close.
Until next time!