General Update

Sometimes I click on my blog and think, "So lame. Why doesn't she update this boring blog?" Then I realize it's mine, and I have one more thing to add to my to-do list. Here's what's been going on with us in a nutshell. Jackson has been sick since Wednesday. His fever is gone today but he's still snotty and coughing. The whole "no cold medicine for little kids-thing" has been a pain. So we've just kept the humidifiers going and have been doing Vick's Vapor Rub and cough drops and usually one dose of medicine at night so he can get to sleep.

We cleaned out the garage (AGAIN!) this weekend. Are we the only people who have to clean out our garage like 5 times a year!?! It seems like a constant battle. Anyway, we are parking both cars in there again, so I consider it a successful project. We also went to see "There Will Be Blood" this weekend. It was a pretty amazing movie and Daniel Day Lewis deserves an Oscar for sure. But it wasn't exactly the feel-good-movie-of-the-year or anything as you could probably gather from the title.

Luke isn't allowed to have chocolate again until he moves out of our house when he's 18. He was wide awake and up until about 12:30 the other night, and then woke up again for a little while around 3:30. He's done this several times, and I think I've pinpointed chocolate as the culprit. So he'll be driving before he gets any chocolate from me again. Other than that he's totally cute and sweet. (The mullet is still coming along fine. The other night when our church group was at our house he happened to be wearing a muscle shirt which went nicely with the mullet. Ben Murrie was inspired to start singing "Pour Some Sugar on Me!!" to him. For everyone over the age of 50 that probably doesn't make any sense, but for those of us who remember Def Leppard, it was oddly appropriate.)



We're fairly busy at work with several interesting projects. Our friends at the LAF will be sending us on lots of trips coming up. I'm sure I'll write more about this later, but between now and May we will be traveling to New Orleans, New York, LA, Boston, DC, Mexico City, Paris, Rome, Moscow, and New Dehli. This is what we've spent the day planning and working on today. Mat and I won't be on all those trips personally, but we are planning to split up the international trips where he'll go on half and I'll take the other half. If it works out we'll meet in the middle somewhere (hopefully Italy) for a few days off.

I don't have any good pictures or videos of the boys to share. So I decided to post this really cool commercial instead. Enjoy...