Sniffle City

It's been a fairly hectic, yet uneventful two weeks here as we battled the sniffles. Hayley brought home her first cold of the year a week ago and was kind enough to share with her brother. I've been VERY grateful that a respiratory virus was our biggest problem since I've lived in fear of the "YACK" bug that has been going around here. All of my friends have had it and it's highly contagious which means it spread through each of their households like wildfire. The general consensus about the "YACK" bug is that you MUST lock yourself in the bathroom for approximately 8 hours. No thank you.

So, as sick as it sounds, I welcomed the common cold with open arms this year, grateful it wasn't the alternative. Hayley never got really sick, but this was Todd's first encounter with a fever type virus and he absolutely didn't handle it well. But seeing as how his Daddy, who has now been hit with the respiratory virus, is passed out on the couch... well, Todd and Daddy MUST have had a MUCH worse virus then Hayley and Mommy did. And I'm not surprised that Hayley brought a bug home in the first place. Just a week ago I found all the vitamins I'd been giving her for a month, stuffed under my couch!!!! Apparently Hayley is NOT a fan of Juice Plus' new formula!

I've been experimenting with my new toy, a digital SLR camera. To put it mildly, I know NOTHING about photography, other than the fact that I knew I wanted a SLR so I could quit missing those awesome shots of my little darlings. Since Brian spent two years of his life on a plane (thanks GE), we had SkyMiles that we had to use or lose. Since a romantic trip to Europe seems to be out of the question in the foreseeable future, we decided to squander our miles on the camera. Anyhow, when I have some free time (ha, ha), I'm hoping to find a photography class or at least spend some time researching the art of photography and learning about this camera.


Here's some pics from our last two weeks:

T-Rod is too cool for school.

Some time at the park.

We spent an afternoon flying our new kite!

And then took some laps around the baseball field. Hayley LOVES to run and already has her sights set on running Disney's Princess Half Marathon with Mommy. It's for "princesses" you know.

A sign that spring is here! The cranes have a new set of twins and have been making their daily trek through our yard each morning and night. Hayley has named them Mommy, Daddy, Hayley and Todd. Unique, don't you think?