The highlights...

Wow...it's been awhile!! We've been so busy there's been no time to blog, let alone feel like I can keep up with life. So, to catch us up, here are a few of the highlights that have kept us going during the past month.

*My wonderful sister and her husband gave Jon and I a weekend away. She just called up and said,"I want to take your kids for the weekend". Jon and I didn't hardlyknow what to do ourselves, but decided to go spend the weekend in Salt Lake City. We did a temple session in the Salt Lake Temple since neither of us had been there before--it is amazing!! We also got to go and eat at the Melting Pot, with my cousin and her husband (we owe you one!). The food was good, but the company was really great! We got to do lots of visiting to relatives, even Miranda and Ian all the way from Germany, and others that we don't always see. It was nice to drive without having to turn around in the car and see who was bugging who, who needed a drink, or who was crying this time. Thanks Melissa and Trevor.

*We had a family weekend in Island Park at the cabin. The weather was really wonderful, and we had great times with Stacey's family riding four-wheelers, fishing, playing Wii, playing the tootsie-roll game, and just relaxing. The cabin is such a refreshing place to be, and we really enjoyed ourselves. Jon has enjoyed helping to work up there, and I don't know anyone who wouldn't enjoy the scent of the forest.

*Jon spent Conference weekend up in Island Park helping with work, and Stacey had a weekend in Island Park with the Primary ladies that she serves with, while the other adult was the parent for the weekend. It makes for some relaxing, but not a whole lot gets done by the parent at home. (I guess we like Island Park alot ;)

*We also found out that we are going to be the proud parents of baby #5. I was walking outside with Jake one day and he pulled a leaf off a bush and made a wish, "I wish to have another baby at our house." I was taken aback, because little did he know... We are just about 18 weeks along, which puts us due the end of March. We just told the kids this weekend, and Josh was hard to convince...I think we might have been too. But we are looking forward to one more addition, and then we can positively, absolutely, for sure and certain be done (famous last words, right?).

*And if that's not all, we just stay busy on a day in and day out basis. Sometimes I wonder how we get it all in..., eat, drink and sleep too. That doesn't include homework, lessons, reading, playing and everything else we do! Life is busy, but it is grand, and I am so appreciative of the blessings that I have, because I surely have many. We have a very, very good life.