I know, I know. Here's 2009.

Since Joanne has posted twice since my last post I felt the need to get my act together so here is the last eight months in brief:

January the kids enjoyed their new sleds from Christmas and the snow that stayed and stayed and stayed.

In February, before we cut Paul's hair, we spent an hour straightening it to see what it would look like. Different look for him.

In March Paul took Enoch and Lauryn to the Edmonton zoo.

They were fortuante enough to be there when Lucy, the Edmonton elephant was out for her daily walk.

In April we celebrated Easter and had fun coloring eggs and body parts. Reina spilt the blue coloring and then stepped in it.

Enoch discovered that using his hands to take the eggs out of the dye gave him "Hulk hands." He was quite pleased with the results.

May found us outside more as the weather turned nicer. The kids enjoyed the picnics and the dirt. Love the pose.

Enoch loved the dirt a little too much.

May was also Reina's 2nd birthday. She has pretty good aim for a two year old.

June is another birthday month for us as we celebrated Paul's and Enoch's birthdays.

Transformers are the new big thing at our house.

July we went to the Lund reunion with Grandpa and Grandma. Jo at least you took a picture. I don't have any.

Before we left Calgary we went to the Calgary zoo and saw the koalas.

July also brought a visit from Rosa and Aaron and the cousins. We had a blast with 10 kids in the house.

In August we visited Rosa and Aaron, and got a chance to try the new Raymond pool. We were too busy having fun to take any pictures, but here is a cute one of Reina enjoying ice cream.

September arrived with everyone going back to school. Enoch started preschool and loves every minute of it. He wishes he could go everyday to play "pirates" with his friend Marco.

After having everyone home for two months, then just Reina and me at home, we find it quiet and she misses her siblings, especially Enoch but she knows how to liven things up when everyone is home again.

We also have harvested the apples from our two trees in our backyard. We have more apples that we know what to do with. Apple crisp, apple pie, applesauce, apple juice.... We haven't even picked the crab apples yet!