spring hath not sprung

'You will see in the bottom picture a lovely scene of what my front door looked like a few weeks ago. As part of my spring cleaning I washed my door and made a tulip bouquet and was so excited to make a Spring statement. I think it stayed on the door for a day or two despite the crazy wind. I finally had to take it down and put it on my dining table because of the lovely weather we have recently been experiencing. I can't believe it is snowing!!! Randall is supposed to fly home to this tonight after experiencing Summer in Australia. That just may be a shock to the system.

I also had to post some pictures of my cute kids of course. The pictures loaded in a weird order but we'll just go with it. This was after church and I thought our little miss looked so cute with just her onsesie tights and and shoes. She was pretty darn cute for church if I do say so myself. I had them all wearing red for the week before Valentine's day so it's been awhile. She was going to try to help me clean. I have had to hide all the cleaning products recently because she is very into "helping" and she thinks that clorox wipes are baby wipes- not good.
Don't they look thrilled. I want to have the kids picture taken for Easter but I fear the worst since I think once you have 3 children it is nearly impossible to have them all looking at the camera at the same time, let alone smiling. We will see how brave I get.
I think this pose has becomes Kate's signature look. We don't ask her to do this she just seems to often do it. I think it's pretty cute though like she is deep in thought. Come on isn't she the cutest thing ever.
Here was my pretty Spring door. I guess it will just have to wait. :( Randall will be home in say 10 hours. I guess with the weather it would be safe to say his return will be like Christmas in March.

out of the loop

Rand has been gone 15 days and my computer has been dead! Needless to say I feel so out of the loop. I occasionally would check email at my parent's house but that's about it. We are so anxious for Rand to be home and sure hope that he won't be traveling again for awhile. We have done fine and the kids have done pretty well. I have certainly had my moments though where I had to breath deep to not lose my cool. I made a goal to not lose my temper and be patient with the kids and generally I have done well and am proud of myself. I certainly have more respect for wives whose husbands travel all the time or are gone for extended periods of time. I am proud of Rand for his hard work and proud of me for hangin' in there. 3 more days. We can do this!

Nursery a Go Go!

She went, she cried, she stayed, she has a new friend.

Today I was dreading the whole nursery scene. Rand took her and stayed a for a minute but she was crying before he could say "bye". I went in to see what was going on and just said she's just going to have to cry, I am sorry. Rand left and said she was hysterical. I was sure that she would be back in our arms in no time. We were very pleasantly surprised. When ten minutes had passed I went to check on her and she was just sitting in one of the male nursery workers lap completely content. I still wasn't sure that would be the end of it but by the time the last hour started she was still there and no crying!!

When I went to get her the workers said she was happy and had made a new friend. I guess as long as this brother was holding her she was perfectly happy. Hurray! I am so glad that it wasn't traumatic for her or the poor nursery workers. I am still worried that it's all a fluke and that next week will be a nightmare but wow am I so happy. When Rand saw us Kate gave him the biggest smile as if to say -I am so proud of me! Way to go Kate and hurray for nursery!