Is it spring, yet??

No, really, is it? Because it's been about 55 degrees for about 3 months now, it continues to rain, and today I'm wearing a long sleeve shirt and jeans. I'm ready to wear short sleeves and be on the computer with the WINDOW OPEN!!! Ugh, this is taking forever. By the time spring kicks in it will be the end of summer and monsoon season will hit again. And it won't be much better in Portland, it's about the same, weather-wise. Maybe a bit warmer during the summer.

Anyway, enough of the complaining. We don't have anything to complain about around here because...drum roll, please...

CHUCK PASSED HIS TEST!!!!!

His is officially a board certified radiologist!  We can't tell you enough thanks for all the prayers and support over the last number of months.  Thank you.

I forgot to include this pic in the last blog post, aren't they cute together??  She is just absolutely enamored with him and he loves her just as much.

And she's finally learned to sit up!!  Geeze, I think she gets everything done FOR her that she just doesn't see the need to progress.

Mimi came to visit a few weeks ago.  This is when she really started sitting up so well.  She still has her tumbles but she's doing good!

Aaron got a new puzzle.  He can put together all of his Melissa and Doug puzzles (wooden ones) so he needs more challenging puzzles.  He did really well with some guidance from Mimi.

One of the meals I cooked while Mimi was here was ham and bean soup.  I decided I'm not a fan, but I think Copper and Skeet will beg for me to make it again because they reap the benefits :)

She sneezed.  Yuck.

Aaron has absolutely been going crazy lately.  I don't know if it's cabin fever or he's possessed, but this is what we've been getting lately:


Some of our closest friends are also moving away soon, to Arizona.  They decided they've been missing the sun for the last 40 years, so they're going to find it.  They had a grand garage sale and I picked up a remote control Jeep for Aaron for $5!!  He's been using Chuck's old remote control car for the last few months but it's so old that the battery lasts only a few minutes.  This is super spiffy, pretty quick, WELL worth the $5!

And Delaney joined us in enjoying the sun.

When it gets nice here and there, we've been taking advantage and having picnics as much as we can!!

And this was taken while Chuck was gone to Kentucky:

The kid was bored?  This is night time and I put him to bed at 8pm.  I went to check on him at 11pm and this is what I found!  His light was on, his clothes were on the floor and he was in bed asleep.  Crazy.

Yesterday Chuck was off for the 4 day holiday weekend (YAY) so we did some errands, got Van's burgers and took the dogs to the base to let them run around and had a picnic on the tailgate.  It was nice.  A bit windy, but so relaxing!  Here's Delaney enjoying the field :)

We went to Lowe's today to purchase a new fan for our room since we want to take the one that is in there now.  I saw all these little kids walking around with airplanes and Lowe's aprons on.  So I went to explore.  This is what I found!  All these little kids putting together wooden airplanes with their parents, FOR FREE!!!  Aaron got a plane, an apron, and even goggles.  AND a patch to put on the apron.  It's a bi-monthly thing they do for the kids, you should totally check it out if you have a Lowe's near you!

Even Delaney took part :)

And here's the finished product!

YAY!!  It's been a goooooood week!