2 months!

Friends, it's been 2 months since my last post! I can't believe I've had nothing to say. That's not really the case. It's just been a busy couple months and a lot of sickness has kept me down.
In the last 2 months, I've had my tonsils removed, had another sore throat, had the flu and am currently recovering from a nasty cold. If that is me, you can imagine that the rest of my family has been sick too. I'll spare you the details.

Now to explain the busy part - we have been doing all sorts of things.
Brent and Ethan went to Monster Jam back in January. that was a high light for them. They got there early and saw all the trucks up close. They watched the 2 competitions, and another small car competition as well I think. They had a great day out at Ford Field.
Brent is back to studying again. We are hoping this attempt at Exam 7 is successful. His exam is in May. When he passes this exam, he will have the first stage of his certification complete. He will also have only 1 more exam to take. He is working so hard to finish. I will definately rejoice on the day he doesn't have to spend his evenings and weekends studying.
Ethan keeps himself busy with school of course. I've been tutoring him with his reading since December, and he seems to be making great improvements. He's still behind grade level, but is making progress! It's so great to see him reading though. He's really growing up! He also has been playing basketball on Saturdays. He also really loves this. His friend has been on his team, and they have a blast together. This last weekend, he made 7 baskets! The previous games he had made one or two each time, so he was really excited about that.

We've had birthday parties, MOPS events, preschool, ballet, gymnastics and all sorts of other events to get to. It seems the weeks fly by, and I don't even know what happens.

Cora is growing taller. She is going to be 5 in one month! It's hard to believe that she is that old already. She is a sweetheart. She loves to do art projects, and is very good at coloring. She also has been enjoying working on an ABC book we've been putting together at home. I print her out pages from a website and she practices writing her letters.
She has begun to take Ballet this winter with her friend Kayden. She just loves it. I wasn't sure if she would, but she loves going and learning. The recital is in June.
She's out playing in the snow right now, as we've had a few inches drop today. Our neighbor is out their with her daughter as well.

Then, I must get to Brayden. He is almost 17 months old, and is now 21 pounds. He's pretty small, but healthy. He's pretty happy most of the time! Especially after a nice long nap. He started pushing trucks with Ethan recently, which totally blesses my heart to see, as I can remember Ethan doing this when he was around Bray's age.
He has lots of nick names - Bray-Bray, Bro, and Buh. Most of these came from Ethan.
Brayden doesn't have any activities yet. Thank goodness, as I'm busy getting the other two to all of theirs. He does go to MOPS and Bible Study though, where he goes to the childcare room. Also he goes to KIDS Quarter at our rec center sometimes too. I've been trying to make it to water aerobics from time to time.

As for me, I'm anything but a bored housewife. I've been doing almost too much this winter. We have lots of church activities, shuttling the kids here and there. Last night, I attended a MOPS event at Dream dinners. They gave us a free meal to take home! This is a place where you can do meal preparation. You choose the meals, they do the shopping and prepwork, you just assemble and freeze them at home, to pull out at a later date. That was fun. My friend and I are going to split a first month membership and try it out for a few meals. I'll let you know how that works out.

I really want to be spending more time memorizing bible verses, to be encouraged by.
I am going to try to have a verse of the week on my blog from now on. This will keep me excited about doing studying the bible and maybe encourage you along the way to open up your Bible and hear what God has to say to you!

With much love,
Andie