Seasons

This week has been fairly routine.  Denny and Audra came over with the new baby, Ebben.  He is really adorable!  I wish you could have been home to see him.  We are hoping that they will be able to come and visit sometime over Christmas, as long as the weather isn't too bad for traveling.

I'm getting used to having only two kids left in the house, but both of them are so busy sometimes it's almost as if nobody lives here anymore.  I don't know if you know this or not, but, Brittany has pretty much taken over your room.  I think she likes the bigger bed, and having her own bathroom!  Did you know she started playing the piano again?  We bought her a Justin Bieber songbook, and she's been practicing much more now than she was before.

Tyler's been his usual self, I don't know who he takes after.  This morning we were without power because of the big wind storm, and when I told him to get out of bed, he said, "I can't get out of bed until I can take a shower.  I need to be fresh."  He is driving me crazy, yet he likes to tell me, "you're driving me to drink!" 

I think this weekend we'll finish cleaning out the basement.  We started this project last week and I felt kind of sad doing it.  I know you wanted to have the basement cleaned out for you and your friends.  Remember when you drew up plans and had furniture, TV, and rugs all drawn into your outline of the basement?  Well, we probably won't do anything like that even now.  We're just getting rid of all the things we should have gotten rid of years ago.  We've been able to play ping-pong down there now, so, we have a pretty good start on it.

See, life is pretty much routine this way.  Just getting ready for the snow to fly and for another long winter.  I do like living here where we have the change of seasons.  The change from fall to winter, then from winter to spring, really help me appreciate the days in between.  In a way, families also have seasons.  We had the season of being newlyweds with just the two of us, then we had "baby season," that changed to the long season of "kids", and now we're in "teen season."  I just hope it's a long way off before "granparent season!"  Ha-Ha!  Have a great week, Kayla!  I love you!