Woo-hoo! We talked to Daniel last night, and he got to tell us all about his first solo flight! We're so jealous happy for him! :-)

Last weekend went great, except that Grandpa was sick, so we didn't end up staying with them at all, and only saw Grandma for breakfast. We really missed seeing them, but we'll make another trip soon and see them then! This weekend we don't have many plans, except watching the Superbowl over at our friends' house. Mostly we'll just be relaxing and enjoying being at home, doing weekend chores, and whatnot. And, of course, posting some of Kate's January pictures for you. Have a great weekend!

January has passed more quickly than we can believe! Kate has mastered sitting up and playing with any toys that happen to be around-for quite impressive periods of time. That's distracted her from her attempts at mobility for a few weeks, but she's starting to realize that she should be able to get to other toys that are out of her reach. For now however, her attempts to move to them consists mostly of lunges when you're holding her, and a bit of spinning and small scoots when she's on the ground. She's just getting cuter every day, as you'll see when we post January's pictures in a week or so (including great pictures we've taken with Michael's amazing new camera), and her babbling and squealing with delight and laughter just brightenes up our lives.

Michael's all healthy and back at work again after battling a sinus infection for almost a week, and Kyla's been doing some training at work this week, so though it's been an out-of-the-ordinary week or two, life feels like it's starting to stabilize out again after the holidays. Of course, that only means it's the calm before the storm, no doubt, but it's great while it lasts. We're going to be heading down to my grandparent's and Kyla's mom's houses for a visit this weekend for the first time since Kate was born, so that will be fun, if quite interesting. We get to learn how to travel with kids! :-)

Well, this post marks our first using Michael's new publishing tool that he wrote - hopefully what that means is updates closer to weekly, rather than monthly. So thanks for visiting, and remember to keep checking back for updates! We love you all!

Well, Christmas and the New Year have come and gone. Happy 2008, everyone! We're back at work, and like most people, it's taken a bit of time for us to settle into the swing of things. Honey has been in and out of the hospital this Christmas season, but she's now doing much better and is at a rehab center for a few weeks before she can go home again. Thanks for all your prayers, and we continue to covet them on her behalf.

As promised, we finally caught up on posting pictures (as well as updating the theme of our website for January; what do you think?) - Kate's November and December pictures are posted, as well as the studio portraits we had made for our Christmas cards this year. December's pictures include pictures of Uncle Daniel meeting Kate for the first time - it was awesome; he was so great with her, like a Pro! Also this Christmas, we welcomed a new member of our extended family into the world - Cooper was born on the 22nd of December - welcome to the world, Cooper! Can't wait to meet you!

Well, we hope that your New Year has started wonderfully, and we'll keep you abreast of any developments, especially with Kate! She's rolling quite well now, and we really think she'll start making valient attempts at crawling in a few weeks. She just gets cuter every day, too! Don't believe us? Well just visit her page of pictures; the proof is right in front of you! :-)

Happy new year, everyone! Let us know how you're doing, too!

Almost Christmas! We've got snow on the ground, the most amazingly beautiful daughter to celebrate with, and her uncle in town to meet her for the first time! We're set! But if you're in the need of getting in the mood, then you need to check out our snowball fight movie!

Well, we promise pictures WILL be forthcoming - hopefully a bit of time in the break here will give us time to catch up on...everything! Obviously, we've got a lot of pictures you haven't seen yet, as well as a November movie of Kate to make! They'll be coming, but in the meantime, we just wish you and your family Merry Christmas!

Well, Kate's more than four months old - amazing! Just over a year ago, we were getting our first ultrasound. She's done a LOT of growing in a year (you know, from just a few cells)! :-) She's now 24 1/2" long and more than 15 lbs! Last week we were gone each evening, mainly at dress rehearsals for the Christmas production at church. It really messed all of us up - Copper has taken to scattering the contents of our bedroom trash cans around when we're gone for the evening, and for a while Kate had stopped taking a bottle from anyone from Kyla - she had serious mommy sickness! So we spent last night after the final performance doting on Kate and petting Copper, and we're on our way back to our lives that we love. Except for Kyla today - she fell sick after the stress and busy-ness of last week. She should be doing better soon - it's 'just' a head-cold as far as she can tell, but that's certainly no fun!

Well, in other news, the turnout was great for the Christmas production - 4th service only had 28 empty seats, and that realizing that it wasn't a holiday weekend, and this weekend marked our first real storm of winter! That's right, it's officially

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weather! In fact, we're due for up to 20 inches by tomorrow night - and we've probably got around 6-8 already since this weekend! It's really a winter wonderland - it's wonderful.

And if you don't know, Kate continues to get the hang of more and more skills - first she started rolling over about 2 week ago (back to front and front to back), and she's even giggling fairly often and gets excited over us popping into view a lot. Last night, Kyla brought her down from a nap and she fixated on her jumper and wouldn't stop looking at it until Kyla put her in it, at which point she got super excited and started going nuts jumping - she's so cute. She did great with her 4-month shots, and generally she just continues to spoil her parents in every way possible.

Other friends-related news - one of my best friend growing up and his wife just gave birth to their first - a daughter. They sent us a text and a pix - she looks so cute! We wish them all the best, and we'll be talking to you guys soon! Welcome to the world Abigail!!! Also, please keep praying for our friends whose daughter is having all the health issues - they're back in town now, but she's still having lots of problems - complications from her first surgery at the very least. They'd really appreciate your prayers still.

And on the track of health prayers, please be praying for my grandma - she's been having lots of blood-pressure and balance problems recently and could really use your prayers. All her kids will be in town for Christmas, so that'll be fun for her and should really help, but she just hates that she's not being everything she's used to doing - we'd all appreciate your prayers for her.

Well, I think that's about it - I've been working on the website a bit, though it's not obvious yet. Soon all the pictures should be available to you if you're using FireFox, Opera (Wii) or Safari as well. Hope everyone is doing great! Sign our guestbook, and we'll see you next time!