It's been another busy couple of weeks. The girls had their final dance recital of the year. They both did great. It's fun to have them do it, but I sure do love when we get to take some time off! Derek's in the middle of his baseball season and his team has only lost once. Derek does great on first base.



Here are some pics of the cousins over at Grandma Roden's house. Yes, the boys really are as goofy as they look--Derek and Dawson especially.




Janie started soccer and has had two games so far. She's really good at running around, and she's getting better at paying attention to where the ball is. Grandpa T is paying her for every time she kicks the ball. That seemed to motivate her in game 2.


Mark had his 38th birthday this week. I'm not sure how he got so old! We had a nice night with his parents and my parents coming over to celebrate with us.

On top of all that, Mark and I celebrated our 16th anniversary this weekend. Again, not quite sure where the time went. My sister-in-law, Bonnie just put wedding pics on their blog on their anniversary last week. She and Dan look the very same 11 years later. I will not be putting pics of our wedding here because it's sad how different we look! It has been a great 16 years, though, and I feel lucky to have such a good life. Janie topped off our month by being student of the month for her class. We are proud of the good friend that she is to everyone in her class.
We are looking forward to what I consider the best part of the year, late spring and summer. We have some fun things planned and feel very blessed to be able to do them.