Pinkie Paxton and The Hollands: February 2010

So, it's been awhile since my last blog entry-something like 5+ months! Everyone in my house is in bed so I decided to seize the opportunity. I'm sorry for all of you who have been patiently awaiting an update! I'm going to try to do better, but Im not making any promises! Since my last entry we've had Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, and Valentine's Day along with a few other "banker's holidays." We had a nice Halloween celebrating Reba's birthday with her family, a nice Thanksgiving, and a good Christmas. New Year's and Valentine's Day are just good excuses to drink sparkling grape juice, eat lots of chocolate, and buy your wife flowers :)

The kids are growing like weeks and are keeping us plenty busy. Kailee is enjoying 5th grade and loves tumbling. She seems to be doing quite well in tumbling and can't wait to meet every Monday. She constantly practices and has progress quite rapidly from not even being able to do a cartwheel to almost doing a back handspring without a spotter. As for Elli, well, she is a mess! She has so much energy and personality that I just don't know what to do with her sometimes-she's such a blast and is constant entertainment! She goes ninety to nothing and is meeting new milestones as I wrote. She still loves to eat, loves to slide, tries to do front rolls, likes to sing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and " I Love You...." (The Barney Song), and talks a millions miles a minute saying things like "Daddy go" and "It's cold outside." She is so full of spunk and a bit of mischeviousness-you can't take your eyes off of her! We all lover her so much-especially her big sis. Here are a few pics from the past few months.

P.S. Joel got a couple of really nice deer this fall: 1 8pt and 1 12pt! Also, I finally did that run that I blogged about 6 or 7 months ago.....14k. I'm looking forward to more long distance runs in the future!

Kailee as Dorothy for Halloween.