January Jumble

Whew! It has been a while since my last blog entry. I'm thinking of changing the name of this blog to something more appropriate. After all, the metropolis in our lives has been gone for a while and it was short-lived. Any ideas?

Our big adventure so far this month was a trip to Monterey with Heidi. We visited her Aunt Beverly and Uncle Jim, whom I'd never met, and spent a day at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Heidi and her aunt and uncle. It rained for most of our visit but we were lucky to get a half-day of great weather.Lauryn enjoyed playing in the water.I thought the jelly fish were awesome!I ran a 10K race at Patrick's Point on the coast and was very glad for a break in the weather. There are pictures on my running blog.

Lauryn is learning to ride her bike with training wheels and to chew gum without swallowing it. Our problem now is getting her to spit her gum out and leave it in the trash. At least five times she has gotten gum out of the garbage and started chewing it again. Gross!

Taylor has been moved up with the first grade group at school. She's not officially a first-grader, but she's doing all first grade work and staying till the end of the school day. It has been fun to see her rapid improvement in reading and math as well as her increasing ability to stay focused.

Peter and I are enjoying our weekly volleyball nights and have just started playing with the community band. I feel like I just wrote a Christmas letter for January. Now you know what we're up to and where we've been. Hopefully I'll get more than one blog entry in for February.