Almost TWO YEARS!

I just realized that it has been nearly 2 years since my last post.  I guess my blog isn't as high a priority as it used to be.  I'll try to post again a bit sooner next time. ;-)

What are we up to these days?

Me:  Gaining weight and not exercising nearly as much as I should.  I'll be increasing my running and biking miles over the summer.  I'm still working at BHMI.  Ben is starting to do short bike rides with me and we may do a short bike trip this summer with Keli and Brandon providing support as needed.  Brandon, Ben and I are also playing some "Star Wars Imperial Assault".  We have completed the first two mission.  I play the Imperials and they play the Rebel Scum.  The Rebel Scum is 2:0 so far.  Drat!

Keli has been super busy with homeschooling, working at our church, cleaning houses, wedding coordinator duties at our church, cooking, cleaning, laundry, picking up after three messy guys, and a million other things.  Somehow she has still found a few spare moments to pick up quilting.  If I haven't mentioned it before, Keli is my best friend, and I'd be a mess without her.  I thank God that she is in my life.

Ben continues to develop into quite the engineer.  He can build some amazing stuff with Legos.  He also keeps taking things apart to see how they work.  Now he just needs to learn how to put them back together again.  Ben has also started taking piano lessons and he has gotten pretty darn good in a short period of time.  I also had Ben go on a bike ride with me recently and he wore clip in shoes and rode my bike.  It's crazy that he is big enough now to ride my road bike.  He was a bit nervous about being locked to the pedals though.  He made it without falling.

Brandon writes more than anyone I know. I don't know WHAT he writes, but he is constantly writing stuff in journals of all sorts.  He has started learning to play the guitar and is doing really well.  He got some Star Wars music for Christmas and has been able to play a few of those songs.  It's fun to hear him playing.  Brandon has also become a real joy to be around.  He has his moment (as we all do) but he is quick to make me smile when I'm having a bad day.  He and I play computer games together every once in a while.  

I'd post a few pictures, but when I removed all the pictures from my ipad last night, it also deleted them from EVERY iDevice we own, including my phone which I usually use to take photos of family activities.  Lovely.

This will just have to do for now: