February 14, 2010

February 14, 2010

Dear Family and Friends,

This has been a long, snow filled week.

I spent most of the days cleaning up snow over this week. It helped that the government has been closed most of the week. It was amazing how much snow has been sitting around. B-man has been spending so much of the time outside….

R went to the church on Tuesday morning to have a morning-mutual activity. She brought B-man along with her so that he could run around in an enclosed facility. Later that evening we went to a birthday party where they have a lot of blow-up jumping things. Even the parents were allowed to participate. It was a great way to get out some energy before the next storm hit.

Wednesday was a white-out, blizzard. It was not worth going outside. We could hardly see across to the townhomes behind our home. I spent most of the day talking with Southwest airlines, trying to get R on to the next available flight (after getting bumped because of the weather) and we found the earliest flight available (Saturday afternoon). After a few hours of shoveling in the afternoon we went over to our friends for dinner…driving slowly and carefully.

Thursday I relaxed inside while R went outside to sled with B-man.

I went back to work for a few hours on Friday. I had worked extra hours the week before (trying to make up time, so that while R was in Utah I could spend time with B-man) so I was only in the office for a few hours. B-man went to another birthday party this afternoon and after coming home we had our standard Friday-Pizza party.

J gets some great “bed-head.”

On Saturday R was finally able to get out to Utah. After dropping her off at the airport, B-man and I dropped off a dresser that we were selling on Craigslist. We got back and went sledding with some friends (until she hurt her lip/tooth) and then we started some projects around the house.

After church on Sunday we went over to our friends’ house for a Valentines dinner. It was nice to be able to spend time with other people, even though R had only been gone for one day. I’m sure that B-man was even more excited to be able to spend time with other people than just me.

B-man has been saying, over and over, that it is “so quiet around here.” It’s kind of surprising that he would notice that it so quiet…when he usually is the one making all of the noise.

B-man and I played a lot of games of Stratego while R was gone. B-man liked to make up his own rules about how his people could move across the board, but we enjoyed ourselves.

While the boys were at home I had fun with J at our Clark Sisters’ weekend. Sadly I missed A’s harp recital, but was able to meet up with everyone afterwards. We had a great weekend of visiting, playing Rook and laughing. The time went much too quickly.

We love you all!

R, M, B-man, and J