Playing Catch-Up (AKA Photo Overload)

I suck so badly at this whole blogging thing. I just have a hard time sitting down and writing here when I have so much other stuff I like doing. I like doing this, too, though. Sigh.

Anywho.

What's been happening here at 314:

We celebrated the Winter Solstice (also known as Yule) on December 22. I made the boys gifts, made a delicious meal, and we got dressed up and spent the shortest day of the year outside.

For Christmas, the boys got some pretty rad stuff from their grandparents, aunties, and uncle.

My littlest sister came and stayed with us for a week (including New Year's Eve). We had fun hanging out and going to the beach and the mall.

We got our family photos done. They were taken on cell phones, but hey, they're cute.

Bear started preschool!

Husband left for deployment in January. He will be gone for 12+ months.*

Less than a week after Husband deployed, my sisters and I (and the boys) drove to Utah for almost a week to be with our dad, who was in the ICU.*

That's what has been happening with us so far. Hopefully I will be able to sit down and start writing here at least once a week (that's the goal).

*Future posts coming soon.