Happy Valentine's Day!

What have we been up to since January 26th . . . hmm. Brian was in Menlo Park for a few days, and that actually went fairly well for the most part. I had to take the boys with me to Lynsey's swimming lesson once but it actually went pretty well. Turns out Adam actually likes sitting there watching Lynsey's lesson! How handy is that. We got Nathan registered in the City Church preschool for next year so that's settled. Lynsey passed her last swimming lesson and started swim team this past week! She is doing so great! We are in the middle of a mid-winter break, and this past Thursday night we went to Facebook for their family Valentine's party. It was pretty low key but the food was good and the kids had fun:). On Friday we drove up to Blaine, Washington for our Nexus pass interviews. For anyone that doesn't know what a Nexus pass is, it's a basically a pass to the front of the line when you are crossing the US/Canada border. You get pre-screened and so you are deemed "low risk" and you can go in the fast lane! Manys a time I have looked with envy on those people racing through the Nexus line, and next time, that will be us! Unfortunately we couldn't use our passes when we crossed the border right after our interviews, but the wait wasn't TOO long thankfully. We drove up to our favorite hotel in Surrey, had some dinner and went swimming with our friends Lindsay and Chris and their kids. It was a lot of fun! The next morning we went swimming again and then went for lunch with my old friend Henry (from La Crete) and his girlfriend. So great to catch up!

There really hasn't been much else going on to report. I had a ridiculously sore throat this past week which was really crappy, nothing too exciting. Getting ready for Nathan to turn 4 - how crazy that I will soon have 8, 6, and 4 year old kids. It's like we are moving out of the young family category into just a regular family! Wow is it ever so much nicer to travel now, and even our night in the hotel this past weekend was just so peaceful compared to how it used to be. They didn't fall asleep super early, but it was a quiet bedtime and Adam actually lay down and stayed there before 9:30 I think! This is a record for him in a hotel! We are hoping to do a big California road trip next summer, by then things will be smooth sailing:).