Sweat, Pain, and Agony

This week Jenn and I got this awesome idea to join a boot camp. We decided that we wanted to get in shape for our trip to Hawaii at the end of March so we created a list of things that we had to do each day, and if we are able to accomplish most of the list we get $50 bucks. Jenn is doing fine, Mark on the other has a sore back, leg, butt, arm etc. He simply hopes to survive. Well keep you updated.

In other news Ellie has continued to wow and amaze us. She has begun to try and feed her self...with some success (see photos). Her new favorite game is walking around the house with a bowl on her head. She can't see anything, but she trusts us enough to hold our hand and walk around blind. She laughs and laughs as she goes. She also has learned to say the word belly. When asked where her belly is she will usually point to her belly and then say the word to quite a good degree of accuracy.

Enjoy your week.

JEM

P.S. Check out the new video at the bottom.

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day,

We hope you all had a special day with your special one, and if you don't have a special one hopefully you'll find one soon enough. This year was especially awesome. My brother was here on Sunday so we celebrated it a little earlier. So, on Thursday I came home to a house full love. Jenn had decorated the house and table with everything valentines. Then for dinner we had one of my favorites, shepherd's pie, and she had made my piece in the shape of a heart. After the main course we then dived into homemade eclairs. It was my Grandma Beutler's prize winning eclair recipe, and boy does it take a lot of work. They were a hit. After dinner I gave Jenn her gift, which consisted of 108 photos of our family. I also gave her 3 poster boards, and 4 glue sticks. Together we put many of the photos on two poster boards and hung them on the wall. It looked quite nice.

It is nice to celebrate the day of love with one of the best women in the world. It was an awesome day with and awesome woman. We hope yours was good as well.

JEM

Lemon's All Around

This week we took a little walk to our brand new garden plot, and guess what we found? The best lemon tree ever. It had over 20 lemons on it and made the best lemon pie around. In the near future we will most definitely have lemon pie, lemon bars, lemon juice, basically lemon happiness. Even Ellie likes the lemons.

JEM

P.S. If anyone needs lemons just call.

Under New Management

Based upon the current state of our blog, and amount of times it has been updated in the past year we have had to make a hard yet important decision. We have let the old management go, and have decided to hire a new and improved staff. They have promised us a blog around once every other week, and look forward to seeing if they can measure up.

Thank You,

JEM