Long over due

Family and Friends,

For those of you who check this regularly, we send our apology. The kids are growing and growing and growing. Y-Y is an official walker and slowly the knees of her pants will stay cleaner. I cannot believe that next week she will be a one-year-old. Perhaps it has been the lack of sleep that makes the days run together (much like my sentences) or how much she has learned to do in the last year that makes it feel like time has flown by. Her favorite activities include being outside, taking a bath, playing with her brother and running around in her birthday suit. This first birthday is special and simple.

Elias is talking non-stop and some days it blows my mind how little time it took for him to open up and speak so we could understand him. Then there are days where I think I am going to pull my hair out if he doesn't take a breath and stop talking for just-one-second. There is little peace, quiet and tranquility around these here parts but I am already feeling the pains of knowing these days are short and will be over soon and very soon.

Jonathan and I are freeing ourselves from the clutter that we have moved around for way too long and refuse to do it again. Goodwill is learning to big a big container over to the car when we drive up and we have a dumpster outside our house for the things that will regrettably go to the landfill. We are anxious to get the house up for sale and when we come home from our vacation to Texas we will finish up some projects and see about getting this house on the market.

I have been taking pictures of the children so you will get to see their darling little faces soon, just not with this post.

We hope you are all doing well and keeping warm this winter.