3 Day Weekend!

Off to Lubbock over MLK weekend. Jennifer bought her first house and we got to be some of her first houseguests, but somehow we failed to get even one picture of her or the house. 

There are always babies to hold in Lubbock! This is Jake and Nancy's youngest, Viviane. 

Church! I got super teared up at the end. I am so grateful for all the wonderful people God put in our life through this Church and for the sound teaching from Dusty and the pastors. 

Yay for time with Spencer and Mason!

Lincoln and Nolan continue to be two peas in a pod. Nolan spent the following week back home begging for me to take him to doctor so he could get hearing aids too. 

We also got to get together with Sam, Laura, and their brood. Someone decided that Jon would look better with rainbow hair. 

It was such a great weekend. Time with Logan, dinner out with Dan and Eryn. Time with Sam and Laura and their kids. Getting to help Jennifer set up parts of her new house. We logged lots and lots of laughs and hit the road back home Monday afternoon with our buckets full. 

January

 Happy Belated New Year! Jon and I were talking about how it really doesn't feel like a new year. I don't ever think it feels like a new year in January because my years have always revolved around the school calendar, but he made a lot of good points. Same old covid hanging around, same old problems with race and politics, nothing super new or major with our kids or family, no big changes on the horizon with the new year.

We did start the New Year with duck donuts. My favorite was a lime one with coconut! Yummmm. 

Jon and Noey took care of a friends dog.

We've gone on some walks and hikes.

Over MLK weekend we went up to Lubbock to visit friends. Major fail 1: No pictures were taken. Major fail 2: We came home with Covid. 

We knew on the drive home that we had been exposed because our friends had texted that morning that she tested positive. The ironic thing is that we didn't see 2 or 3 other families that we would have because of health concerns with Covid. 

School had also been cancelled two additional days after MLK day because of the number of staff out in our district. (Again, Covid). On Tuesday morning, Nolan woke up with a terrible cough, so we decided to test everyone. Ollie was the one who tested positive however. (I had forgotten how terrible air quality is in Lubbock; it's so dry and so dusty. I'm guessing Nolan was just having some allergies after spending the weekend there.) 

Jon has had a sore throat all week, but tested negative twice. It's so hard to tell what is allergies and what is Covid! He did test again this morning though and it was positive. We will see if it continues to spread through the house or if it stops. 

It's looking like we will have a low key month. Time to get caught up on things around the house and this here ol blog!