Been awhile...

Oh my goodness. It's been awhile since I've posted on here and a lot has happened for us since then.

Well, we were without a car for quite a while. It sucked. But with the help of my wonderful in-laws, we were able to have transportation when it was desperately needed - thank you to Bill & Jeannette! We were finally able to buy a new(er) car after almost a month without one. We bought a 96 Jeep Grand Cherokee and it's fantastic. It's white, like every other car we've ever owned. We took it to get looked at, had the major problems fixed and now we're on our way to loving our new car completely.

Nathan had a birthday this month. He turned 14! Can you believe it? I met him like this:


And now he's like this:

Time flies when you're a parent! We had a small family gathering for his party - basically us and grandparents. We had to cancel the party we had planned and rearrange it on such short notice. But it was fine, I guess.

The week after we got our new car, we decided to have a mini-vacation, which was nothing more than a night down in GR. We stayed at a suite with a pool. It was nice. We went to the Children's museum, walked around Frederick Meijer Gardens and then ended our foray at Chuck E. Cheese's.

My daughter has a crush on Chuck.

Updates on the kids: Nathan has the opportunity to go to Mackinac Island in May on a field trip with his school. Very exciting, except for one thing: his grades. I told him that I would pay for his field trip except he had to get his grades into the B's or higher. He's yet to do that. He says that I told him that the end of the trimester was the cut-off. The end of the trimester is next week. Good luck to Nathan!

Katherine's doing well in her IEP. She sounds so much better than she did last September. She's making lots of friends and we just had her friend Kita over the other day. She loves Kita like a sister. She's got a future husband already too. She's marrying Toby, the king of her world. He's a little boy who I saw just yesterday, telling her hi and hugging her. I was, at first, afraid that my daughter was just a little stalker. Now I see why she says they're getting married. Any boy who will avoid lunch to hang out with her is a keeper. =)

We are all sick in our house. Flu, cold, whatever is going around right now is the 5th member of our family. The only one not feeling like poop is Katherine. Only because she had it last week. She was so sick. I babied her for days but I didn't care. She had high temps and slept most of the day over the long weekend.

Well, I'm up early, so I'm taking advantage by going to watch old BBC shows. Love to you all! Oh, and here are the pictures from January and February.