Lots of Events and No Good Excuses

It's been soooo long again since I posted. And, unlike my sister-in-law, I don't really have any good excuses as I am not studying for an important exam or have friends visiting regularly from far away, nor am I sick or undertaking any sewing projects. I guess I could provide some excuses such as: a) kids: b) visiting Lethbridge for Easter; c) Facebook - this fascinating yet terribly time-sucking new thing that everybody seems to be signing up for so I joined too; d) I have no idea where the month of March went; e) laziness; f) I really have no excuse.

So now I am left to blog about an entire month without going on and on so much that people stop reading (please, not yet anyway...) Here goes an attempt to summarize major events over the past month:

1. Happy belated birthdays to my sister Veronica (March 15), Matt's Mom (April 4) and our sister-in-law Michaelia (yesterday)!

2. Congratulations to our friends LeAn and Simon who welcomed their new baby boy Gus into the world on March 15! We hope to meet him very soon.

3. GO FLAMES!!!! They are into the playoffs, though not the way I wanted to see them make the first round, still looking forward to seeing them kick Detroit's butt. Matt got a very funny shirt that is the Edmonton Oiler's logo but instead of Oilers it says Losers. Was going to post a photo but now I have to wait until people forget about Saturday's game.

4. Had a very nice visit to Lethbridge to celebrate Easter. Jaina as usual had tons of fun wearing out her grandparents. Had a yummy turkey dinner (thanks to Matt's mom!) complete with everyone's favourite, tapioca pudding. Matt's mom was not going to make it but then got too hard of a time from both Matt and his dad. It is fast becoming Jaina's favourite part of dinner too. We then came back Saturday night. The Easter bunny hid some eggs here for Jaina to find Sunday morning, and we've been subjected to playing "egg hunt" ever since.

5. During the week, we have been busy going to gymnastics and swimming lessons. Jaina liked gymnastics so much and has improved so much we have signed up to continue in the next session. We have visited with some friends and made it to the Zoo and the library a couple of times. We try to make it out to the park when the weather is nice enough.

6. The ever-interesting weather. We continue to have snow, interspersed with occasional days of + temperatures, even sometimes the double digits. Today we have our first real "April Shower". I liked the rain today because it feels very spring-like and I am looking forward to the May flowers. It is supposed to turn to snow though tonight. For the moment it is all melted which is nice.

7. Lewis is cutting his first two teeth, the tiny ones at the bottom in the front. It has changed his easygoing, cheerful disposition at times, but he still amazes us with his ability to be happy and charming most of the time. Especially when he is crying and fussing and drooling, then stops to look up at us with a smile and a squeal or a gurgle. He is also eating many kinds of baby food and LOVES to eat. He is an eating machine which I just can not feed fast enough usually.


7. My friend Heather visited from Edmonton (her parents live in Airdrie so when she visits them we manage to squeeze in a visit). We have known each other since we were in Rangers together at 15. She brought her new baby girl Abigail over so we could meet her. We put her three and my two kids together on the couch for a picture and marveled at how much has changed in our lives since then! It's amazing. And wonderful. (Here in the picture are Heather's kids Noah, Jenn, and Abigail, with Lewis and Jaina).

Oh, and I just noticed, below is a post which I typed up and then never posted because I hadn't downloaded the photo off our camera. Check it out because it is very funny.

Are you still reading? Thank you! Now I will end the long post with a long slideshow of some of the past month's pictures. Check out the link to our gallery if you want to see even more.