Jr. here.  I hope you all are doing well.  We have had a lot of sickness come through over the Winter, but I’m glad to report that at present all are healthy.  The best news is that we have a new bundle of joy coming in August.  We’re very excited about that.  We hope to even out the numbers with a girl, but another boy would suit us fine, too.

It’s been a long time since we’ve blogged.  We have to catch up on quite a bit.  We left off with the end of last Summer.  Since then we have built a new fence in our backyard (well, our Uncle and cousins did all the hard work), celebrated our first Christmas in our new house, tilled a garden plot in the backyard and we have all turned another year older.

Since we left off with the end of Summer in the last post, we’ll pick up with Cruz’s birthday. He turned 2 last September. He was the first in the family to celebrate a birthday in the new house.

Here are a few pics of us playing in the backyard, which is about 20 times the size of our old backyard. We like to play a sort of train game, where we line up and hold on to a rope or string (or a gold ribbon, in this case).  I was the engine in the picture below.  Then you’ll see Squeaker on the swing and Little Boy in a walker – he didn’t get far in the grass.

And now for some leaf-pile fun!

That was a blast, being thrown into a soft leaf pile!  Now how about some Christmas photos!?

It is taking Mom a while to gather all the pictures from different devices for Jan. thru Mar.  She says she will try to get that done and post again soon, hopefully with a couple videos.  At least this post will catch you all up to the end of 2013.  Hope you all are enjoying a nice Spring so far.  We are certainly glad it is here!  See you soon!