It's already March!

Another week has gone by and it is now March. The weather is getting better and the plants are starting their spring budding and growth. We are hoping for a nice spring with good weather.

Sunday, February 24th we drove up to Kohen's birthday party in Olympia. Family helped him celebrate with Kentucky Fried Chicken, cupcakes and cake. He got a pirate ship and neat stuff.

The work week went normally but seemed long since last week we had only four work days. No days off now until Spring Break at the beginning of April. It was Sam's 32nd birthday on Thursday. Doesn't seem like it was that long ago he was born. Goni spent some time on Friday night babysitting Nellie at Jill's house.

On Saturday March 1st Grover did a brake job and tuneup on his pickup truck while Goni got her hair cut. Our German exchange student, Caroline, got the spring cleaning bug and washed windows and did general house cleaning. That evening we had Shelly & Tim and Laurel & Patrick over for a steak dinner. Some played board games afterward but we were all in bed by 9:30.

On Sunday March 2nd Grover took Deana MacPherson (a school teacher friend from our church) to Prineville, OR in the airplane so she could watch her granddaughter play in a volleyball tournament. The flight was good and the moutains were all out. Here is a nice picture of Mt. Hood taken on the trip.

Caroline's friend Nathalie (she is a Rotary exchange student from Finland) came over for the day. The two of them made cookies and watched movies all day. Nathalie has invited Caroline to go to Sunriver for a few days of skiing at the end of the month.

Noah, Charity & Chris stopped by for a visit on Sunday evening. Noah did some art work with colored pens. Goni cooked up some Pierogi's that we got from Agnieszka when we were in Chicago in November. We sat around and ate and visited and then ate some more!