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We haven't written for three weeks since it has been so busy, but now we have a normal Sunday, so here it all goes. Three weeks ago we spent most of our time getting ready for Dan's wedding. We packed and got a dog sitter and stopped the mail and everything. Our plan to get there was to ride on a series of trains. It should have taken three days each direction, however, the trains on the way there were all delayed. The first was 6+hours late and caused us to miss our connection. We had to have a 24 hour layover in Chicago because of the delay so we went to the Chicago zoo most of the day. It was pretty fun even though the kids whined a lot. We got on the next train and it was also running late, but not so late that we missed the third train. It ended up taking 4 days to get there due to the super long layover. Grandpa Mike picked us up at the train station, so we got to bed before midnight on Thursday. Having missed a day meant that we tried to get two days worth of touring don...

To start this blog post out, Gideon told me that I could dictate and he would type up what I say. See if you can interpret this: booehapedanoonecnecam The answer is: "Booey has picked a new nickname". This happened a few weeks ago, but we didn't report it when it happened since it seemed like a passing fancy, but she has stuck with it, so she is now known as "Butterfly Princess". When asked what that name means she says that she is a butterfly that is also a princess, so it isn't just a human princess that has a butterfly theme. This week aunt Sheila finished Rea's dress for uncle Dan's wedding. It is blue, with gold lace over the skirt, and Rea thinks that it is very pretty. Sheila showed it to us over marco polo. the kids are calling clothes for the wedding wedding clothes by the way, so that makes this Rea's wedding dress You might recall that for Christmas Alison got a whole house humidifier. We have been using it since then, but Rea noticed ...

The funniest thing this week was probably when Alison decided that too many kids had colds and they couldn't go to CC. Timmy spends every Sunday evening/Monday morning whining about how much he doesn't want to go to CC. This week, when he heard Alison talk about it, he started in with "But I don't want to go to CC."  Alison replied, "Guess what, you don't have to!" There was this moment of blankness before he started to whine, "But I want to go! Why can't I go?" Alison has now declared that she is not listening to his whining any more, since obviously he is just whining to whine and not for any real reason. Alison and the girls went at lunchtime to show Grandma Sheila the kids' artwork from this quarter and then to do Essentials. The kids' artwork looked very impressive:   Wednesday we had a huge snow storm. It was beautiful! We went out and played in the snow (it was deeper than the dog's legs, and he loved wallowing in it)...