So here are some updates on our lives.

My wonderful husband put up a coat rack for us near the back door! Now the kids know exactly where to hang up their coats. And they can reach them!

Bikes have become more popular at our house since Christmas. The red helmet is encouraging the blue helmet to ride more. The blue helmet is a competitor (but only with his brothers)/social rider (with friends). So hopefully this will help him want to learn to ride.

The garden has looked better. I believe the roots to the banana tree are still good, which is what I have been told to worry about. We haven't had any deep freezes here, yet. And most of what you see will be cut off in another two months to allow the new to grow.

The unusual thing is, that through it all, this lone strawberry has held on! I finally picked it to see if it would ripen (it has been green and large for almost a month now!).

And here are three of our almost four boys. They looked this nice for the extent of this picture and about 3 minutes before it. Then afterward, they took off either vest or tie to go to Church!
Thus are our boys, but we love them for it.