Hi!

I thought I'd stick my head in here for a sec while I have a chance. We've got a busy weekend. Joshua's got a Little League orientation today. He played ball in Texas but this is the first time he'll play since we moved here. He's really excited. Some of his buddies have signed up too so I'm hoping they'll end up on the same team. We'll see. Tomorrow is his Cub Scout Banquet. He and Mike are supposed to be baking something for the Father & Son bake-off. I'll be sure to take a pic of whatever they come up with. Right after the banquet Mike's catching a flight to Florida. He'll be working there for 12 days. I think he's starting out in West Pal Beach and working his way up to Orlando. I had planned on going for a few days, but I'm not. I was going to take the kids out of school for 2 days and drive them and the dogs over to my mom & dad's. They had the Friday off from school so I was going to take them out on Thursday & Friday and drive them over Tuesday after school. It snowed though so they had to give back their Friday which would have meant I would have had to take them out for 3 days. That was semi-ok too even though I wasn't thrilled about it. Then Cassie got the flu and missed a few days of school so I nixed that idea all together. There will be other trips. I'm really not heartbroken about it. I've been to Florida several times already. I don't want to do anything Disney without them. I had so much fun with them when we went last time.

My good buddy, Rachel had a birthday yesterday! And to celebrate, I took the kids to the Cold Stone Creamery LOL! I couldn't take Rachel....she lives in Utah, you see...lol. I did send her a box of cake mix, icing, and candles though. I was to send to her for our birthday exchange in our yahoo group. I didn't take a pic of all the goodies I sent her, but I did take one of the piece I stitched for her. I stitched a design from The Prairie Schooler. It's K is for Kitty. Rachel loves cats and designs from PS, but she hates stitching them so I stitched him for her. I made it in to a pillow and love how it turned out! Isn't he great?! Now she'll just have to keep her ribbon eating cat Odette away from it LOL! Speaking of Rachel, I'm so excited...Laura and I are meeting Rachel in Williamsburg on March 8th. We've got a hotel book for the night and we'll be going on a walking tour of Williamsburg that night. We're spending most of Monday together too and have lots of fun things planned. I'm really looking forward to our little trip! And I'm really looking forward to March! Lots of fun things planned for March!