Sad...I haven't updated here since FEBRUARY. What?? No pictures of Spring Break in TX, our summer, nothing. I should officially quit blogging.

But I'm not going to. :)

I am, however, moving our blog to blogger, because Xanga charges for extra picture space. And all my friends are on blogger anyway. So check it out:
http://boysandjoys.blogspot.com/

Now that most everyone I know is on Facebook, I may not have many pictures on the blog, but I hope to update more regularly, both with our family happenings and just thoughts about life. As many times as I've updated my status today, you'd think I needed to get on twitter. But I'm not doing it!! No!

Love you all, and see you on Blogger!

Here are just some random good times in February...

On Valentine's Day, I wanted Tobin to be wearing red (I know, not like it matters, but I like it :D). His red shirt was dirty (I wasn't thinking about it and had him wear it a couple of days before V-day), so I put him in a white shirt with a red fleece vest that was Luke's. It was one of Matt's favorite things of Luke's, but I hadn't ever remembered to put it on Tobin. I thought he looked so cute, and he was in an unusually cooperative mood (lately, as soon as I get the camera out, he says "NO!" and runs away.) He let me get quite a few good pictures too...






How cute is he??

A couple of days ago, while I was cooking dinner, Tobin really wanted someone to read to him (he almost always wants someone to read to him - he'll follow me around with a book saying, "Choo Choo! Read it!") Since i was busy, I told him to ask his brother. Then I called Matt & made him take pictures :)



I know what you're probably thinking. Luke's legs are HUMONGOUS. He already comes up to my chin. I love the way Tobin is looking at him :)

Over the summer, we took a little experimental plunge into expanded cable (we've always just had 13 channels, and no DVR). We ended up deciding that we don't watch enough TV to justify the (rather considerable) extra expense. The only trouble is that we kind of got hooked on a couple of shows (and I LOVED having the DVR...going back to a VCR was a beating.) We've joyfully discovered how many of those shows (Psych!) are available online, so we've been watching a ton of TV on our laptops. Matt was talking to our friend Jared and found out that they also watch TV from the internet, but they do it by hooking their laptop up to the TV. Matt was super excited about that possibility, so today he's had the TV pulled out from the wall trying to get it hooked up. He was using his head lamp, which Tobin was very excited about. So T got one too:




Next up...Luke's birthday!

Before I forget to mention it... I've put more pictures up than I'm including here. If you're seeing this on the web (as opposed to getting it in email), there's a photostrip to the right of the blog, all the pictures are on there...

A couple of random pics first... Betsy's birthday is in January, and while we were out at Bill & Sara's celebrating her (and we praise God for her!!), we tried to get a picture of Matt with the two littlest ones (Ellery and Tobin). It didn't go so well, but I think it's a funny picture :D

Am I sadistic? This picture cracks me up!

Here's a cuter one... I got Tigger & Pooh beanie babies on clearance at Target. He loves them.

I'm looking at this picture & realizing that I may not be very good at getting the car seat harness on T very snugly on the side opposite the door. I can't see it from where I stand plugging him in, guess I'll have to be a little more careful!!

On to other January fun... At the end of the month, I met my friend Holly & her little girl Kate, who is 3 months younger than Tobin, at the Lincoln Children's Museum. This was the first time T has been to the Museum that he could really appreciate it...and he had a wonderful time.

My Aggie friends are probably not going to appreciate this one...

If they had Aggie gear, I promise I would have used it!

His favorite part of the museum was the water play area.





 He also really liked all the cars/trucks/boats/tractors that he got to climb up into...

We had a great time (Luke was kind of offended that we did fun things while he was at school...Tobin hasn't really been old enough to make it worth doing much during the school days, so he's not really used to missing out on things!)

Next up...Valentine's and Luke's Birthday!!