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Elsa volunteered to help me write this blog post. This is what she said: "We were going to the beach house, and Victoria was there, and we went on the beach and we found so many pretty shells. That's all I remember." Just to be clear, we did not go to the beach house last week. :P I'm not sure if she's making up a story, telling me what she remembers from the last year, or what. She did get to play with Victoria this week, though; Grandma Julie and Grandpa Craig were in town this weekend and invited all the cousins for a sleepover. Alison and Mike and Becky and Chauncey had Arby's for dinner and played Here to Slay at Becky's house while the kids were all at Grandma's. It was very fun! And when we went to pick up the kids, we sat and created characters for a The One Ring roleplaying game that Chauncey's going to GM for us. Earlier this week, Rea got to go to Grandma's house an extra time for an adventure. She was signed up to take her official ...

Early in the week we went to the DI and got bikes for Timmy, Gideon, and Elsa. Timmy's bike had one missing tire tube and Gideon's bike had damaged pedals, however, they were all pretty good other than those issues. Elsa has never ridden a pedal bike before so she is very excited to start learning this and has been having Mike come out and help her balance and practice a lot. We fixed up all of the broken parts of the bikes and the kids ride around fairly often now. The kids have also noticed the first flowers of spring in grandma Sheila's yard. They are very excited to be done with winter and getting into spring. On Thursday The architects finally gave us the final versions of all of the architectural drawings for our house so we submitted a final version of them then. We are really really hoping that this time they accept the drawings without any comments. Mike took the day off on Friday because he still has more vacation and the company will let him carry, so, Grandpa Mi...

Salt Con was the first weekend of March. Despite everyone being sick we had a lot of fun. We played a few new games and some old games. We bought a few games and a lot of toys. We painted miniatures, played in the Star Trek simulator, played a magical kittens RPG, and ate the continental breakfast at the hotel.  Although we usually go to the pool almost every day during SaltCon this time the pool was under construction.  After salt con the kids all had to go to the doctors and many of them got shots. Most of them recovered fairly quickly, however, Sara seems to have been impacted the most by the shots. Her arms hurt severely for more than a week, and she still seems to be a little bit lethargic, so that tetanus shot is pretty tough. The kids got invited over to a party at the Wilson's. Timmy says that it was just a parade pretty much. Elsa says that it was great, and it had a lot of food and snacks and that she loved it.  Mike and Alison saw Les Misérables at a theater do...