Fantastic February is here!

Hello all,

Finally someone from our family has gotten on again to update our post. And, surprise surprise, its not the parents! You can pretty much count on the kids to be the most excited about the blog, since we don't have one of our own. :)

Here we are in the beginning of February with our lives still as crazy as ever. Nathan and I have had homework coming out of our ears, but surprisingly, we are doing very well getting it all done, although sometimes we are not the most efficient in doing so.

Mom is continuing to be not only a mother but also a house cleaner, teacher (at home), PT, wife, bus driver, chauffeur, and the list goes on. She is currently planning to go to Colorado to visit her family, leaving Nathan and I home with dad. I don't know how many of you know what that means in our house, but I can assure you it is going to be a week of grilled dinners, cinnamon rolls for breakfast, and a lame attempt to get the kids to eat anything healthy. Ok, maybe I am exaggerating a little, but you get the point.

Nathan is continuing to be a very studious and doing very well in school, though you would never be able to tell from the way he acts at home. He is currently very into hard rock Christian bands such as Skillet and Red and plays this music every day, much to the ear-splitting dismay of the rest of the families:P He just went to the Red concert and thoroughly enjoyed jumping up and screaming the lyrics with the rest of the hard rock fanatics who were there. He is also currently on a basketball team for the Upward League and is improving his boxing out and rebounds every game. His height has also made him quite the star, as he is taller than most of his teammates. Dad is the assistant coach. Despite all of the 10 year old boy obsessions, he is very cuddly and loving towards his mom and dad and loves the night-time family reading that occurs most every night.

Well, I guess that leaves me now... Currently I am playing club volleyball with the Albuquerque Rebels Volleyball club and absolutely loving it. I have inherited my dad's height, making me one of the taller ones in the league. I can proudly say that I am at the net most of the time, enjoying the thrill of spiking the ball back over the net. Another one of my interests is what every 13 year old girl likes to do: Sleepovers! I have learned this year that the most popular and most amusing game to play at a sleepover is truth or dare, especially when you have friends that are very NOT into pop-culture fashion and girlyness. However, I still am not able to wrap my mind around where the name sleepover came from because, as I am sure a lot of you know, sleepovers include just about anything but sleep.

Hope to read your comments soon!

Well, we have entered the 21st century and decided to start a blog, mostly because I would love to share pictures and they don't always go through on e-mail. So, have fun perusing our site. It probably won't change often!

Just an update on our lives...

Kevin and I are entering our 20th year of marriage. OMGosh!!! Can you believe how fast time goes? We are going to spend a weekend away at a Colorado cabin at the beginning of the summer so we can do some hiking, sailing, and R&R. Kevin is still working for Pfizer with a new boss and his old territory. MB is still doing part-time PT work, currently preparing to teach an orthotics guest lecture at the PT school, and will be taking one grad-school class at UNM this spring. It is actually in her field, so she is excited! It will be a research class on Evidence-Based Practice through the PT school. She'll enjoy it while she can because it will be back to education classes in the fall.

Brianna is turning out to be a lovely teenager who has thankfully avoided much of the mid-school drama. She is very smart, works hard in school, loves being with her friends, and beats up on her father whenever she is with him. Deciding to give up harp and stepdance, she has found her passions: volleyball (she is playing club), piano, and singing We are starting to look into high schools... yikes... because she is one year away.

Nathan is one enthusiastic, fun, annoying, musical little brother. He is in the same class as Brianna at the Family School, and is thriving under the iron fist of Gael, his teacher and principal. He can be found listening to Christian hard rock most of the time and/or drumming. He wants to be a drumming priest when he grows up and dreams about having a church in Durango or Aspen, Colorado. When not playing percussion, he is either doing homework, playing sports, or asking for a play date.

We just got back from my grandpa's funeral in Aspen where we had a memorial for both of my grandparents. It is hard to believe these "immortal" people are gone. They were our idols in so many ways: faith, family, fun. Around 30 of us skied together last week in their honor, in fact we did all 4 mountains in Aspen in a day! We so enjoy