I don't have much to post, but a few pictures to share. Please excuse my horrible photography, these are off my phone.

Heather has completed driver's training. Now for the next 6 months we need to log 100 hours, 10 of which are at night. Against the advice of the instructors, what a better way to log hours than to take a trip to visit family. So 2 days after receiving her permit, we loaded up and headed to Columbus. 11 1/2 hours down, 88 1/2to go. Now that the weather is cooperating (which it wasn't so much on our trip, by the way) we may have to take a drive to Geneva!! And I believe Ann Arbor is in our very near future as well, to visit with Rachel and Jameson. While we're there, we may as well take in some shopping at Birch Run. She is doing quite well, given that she lacked the cabin driving that Matt and Mike experienced for at least 3 years prior to their legal driving. She continues to excel academically, as well. It is very important to her to do well, so she can pursue her dream of teaching kindergarten. Most of you know her school of choice is Texas Tech. Which has a great education program. And Uncle Luke has told her that Texas is a great place to teach.

The boys are doing very well in their programs at MMI. They do not care too much for Phoenix (it is too BIG and too HOT). But they are nearly 1/3 of the way done. I know Mike is very homesick and they really have no time (or money) to visit. They had just one week off at Christmas, and that is it until Christmas 2010. But we communicate several times a week via cell phone. As soon as his computer is fixed I think we are going to attempt video chat. When he has this capability, I will let you all know!

Here are some pictures of our trip to Patty's. We went mini bowling, and CeCe did a mini fashion show for me, of course when we weren't watching The Brady Bunch. I am still amazed at the amount of snow that fell. (And I'm from Michigan)