Updating Blog finally!

The past couple of months have been interesting to say the least. However, I have new pics up and we've got a couple of birthdays + Valentine's under the belt. Gavin has played soccer for the YMCA and finished his last game this weekend. He and Taten are now in gymnastics. I think they enjoy it but we'll see. The boys have said they'd like to learn to do flips someday. We'll see. Brad turned 35 on 2/18 and mine is 3/1. I made Brad a low-carb peanut butter pie which he thoroughly enjoyed. He's not a big chocolate eater but when you mix up sugar-free triple-fudge ice-cream with a cup full of peanut butter, he's good to go. We missed a huge snow opportunity last week. It hit my home area of Western Illinois of 7-9 inches and everything we got in Champaign was all rain. What nasty weather. We all have spring fever bad and I know the boys are just itching to get outside and stay there. However, with spring will be the lawn-mowing season so I'm apprehensive about that. Our family enjoys having Brad around more and he has accomplished a lot this winter with getting organized for the new season. We're also looking forward to some boating opportunities, too. Oh spring/summer, come soon! I have been reading Julia Child's memoir "My Life in France." It's great and I'm trying to brush up a little on my French from high school and college. There's different areas of the book where she used French and I can't remember some of the words. Oh well. Loved the movie Julie and Julia and highly recommend to everyone. Yes, even the men. On another note, Taten has been challenging our authority to extremes lately and we've been having to take away things. Unfortunately spanking the child doesn't work so we're having to find other ways to get our message across. Right now, I'm blaming his tantrums on the full moon coming up (ha ha). Just ready for him to calm down a bit. Taking away video games, though, seems to hit him hard enough that he straightens up. We have to stay strong. I'm off to bed . . .