M.I.A....

I know, I know, I have been out of the blogging world for far too long. My sister has informed me that I have gone M.I.A., but I am still here and I do still check in on a lot of you, but haven't updated my blog forever. Not to disappoint you, but this is going to be a quick blog w/out pics. Mike has my camera connection to the computer, so I will try and post pics in the near future.

A quick update on the Stoebers:

~ Brooke is loving Kindergarten and doing very well. Just yesterday she passed off the list of things they'd like the kids to do before they finish with kindergarten! She was super proud of herself, as were her parents! She is loving learning to read, and she is picking up more and more words all the time. It is amazing to see her progress and the books she can read now. She also can not wait for warm weather! (Not that I blame her much, there, either.)

~ Emily is three now! She is such a fun kid to be around. She is so sincere at times, and then quick as can be, she will pull a funny face at you! She is learning so quickly, too. It must help to have an older sister in school! She is also becoming more and more independent. She loves to play outside! She will don her coat and boots and head outside without a word! It is great, except for when I don't know where she is, or where she's gone. But she is learning the boundaries of where she may and may not play (the road). The other morning I was in the shower and she informed me she was heading outside to play! At least she told me, right!?!

~ I guess our big secret (that is really not a big secret to most) that I failed to mention earlier is I am expecting. And I have only six weeks left! (See what happens when you fail to blog, you don't update people on very important things!) We are expecting another girl the beginning of May...Cinco de Mayo! And no, we haven't settled on a name, so if you have a girl's name that you'd be willing to share, I'd love you to share it with me!

~ Mike is busy with work, especially now that spring is just around the corner. He is also busy trying to get our basement finished. He says I have my heel in his back to get it done! It is hard for him to find the time to get down there when he has so many other things going on (like two little girls who demand dad's attention when he gets home). But the basement is coming along and it will be nice to have it finished (which won't be for awhile, since we are determined to pay as we go, but little by little...).

~ I have been busy with the girls. I go in to help with Brooke's class doing centers once a week. I swap watching kids with another mom that is a neighbor, so I watch her kids when she goes in and she watches Emily when I go in to help. Relief Society keeps me going, too (I'm the secretary). And did I mention I was pregnant? so that adds to everything else that is going on.

So that about sums us up in a nutshell. Sorry for procrastinating. Hopefully I can get some long overdue pics posted soon, too.

Now a quick side note. A while ago, I remember reading on someone's blog a cute definition for family. Does anyone have this still? I think it was on a header or maybe the side bar. Anyway, I really liked it, but never wrote it down and now I can't find it. Can anyone help me out here?