Still alive

We are still alive and kicking around here.  It has been a winter for the record books and we are all ready (READY) for spring.  Lots of illness covered most of the winter.  Susie and I had our first kid-free trip in 12 years (awesome cruise to Caribbean)!  I had the pleasure of having my appendix removed after acute onset of pain a few weeks back.  We also took a leap of faith and completed training and licensing to become foster parents.  We received our first placement call this evening, but had to turn it down (the case was more overwhelming than we agreed to take....prayers for all the children hurting in this system).  This is an exciting journey and we will see where it takes us.  All the kids are doing great and just finished up a fun basketball season.  We are now onto baseball and track for the boys...Maeve is going to just relax this season!  We also just celebrated Maeve's 5th Gotcha Day.  It is so amazing to look back and see how much she has grown and thrived since coming home!

There are many more things that occurred over the past year, but too late to catch up now.  I will try to be better about documenting our lives for our own memory!  Until next time here are some pictures from the holidays.