Well, another week is gone again! A recap of this week can be summed up with colors...Nattie's nose is still running bright green and Kyle's ankle is a lovely shade of purple after twisting it playing basketball. It's still really cold here, but we've had heat the whole week! Nattie has been having fun checking cows with Daddy every day since Grandma and Grandpa Tharp are visiting Cousin Madison in Nebraska, and Beckett's teeth are bothering him on and off. We had some fun play dates this week, and I had my first parent-teacher conference for Natalie! Wow, that does make me sound old. Anyway, iy was so fun to hear someone else talk about how she is when I'm not around because the only perspective I ever get is from being her stay-at-home mom. She's really good at counting and naming her shapes, and it surprised me when she said she has a hard time doing large group activities sometimes. She's great in small groups, though, which is just fine. I'm just so glad she has a great place to start her school journey.

Not much else is new here. I'm headed to a movie with Mandy tomorrow afternoon and we're looking forward to Grammie's visit Feb. 11 and our trip to North Carolina with Auntie Hannah in March to visit Nana and Papa Brooks. We are all happy and (relatively) healthy and hope you all are the same. Please keep in your thoughts and prayers little Tanner Griemsman, our friend's new one-month old baby who is hospitalized with a bad respiratory infection called RSV. What a horrible thing to see your new baby struggle to breathe. Hugs to all.

Here is the video of Beckett and his girlfriend Blake from our trip last weekend.

"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom." ~Dwight D. Eisenhower