This One Is For Jane
Our close friend Jane recently left Columbus again- this time to live in DC. She is a remarkable person and one we are glad to call our friend. In fact she is more like family to us after nearly 30 years of friendship. After many years of hard work at Pepperdine & Pepperdine Law School she successfully passed both the California and Ohio Bar. This doesn't surprise us though. She is extremely gifted and intelligent. Last week Jane started a job at the White House. This is an awesome opportunity and one we know she will do great at. We only wish she lived closer to us and the boys...but we are VERY hopefully that after she does it all in DC, she will move back again to Columbus and reside here for years. Congratulations Jane on your White House position! We are proud of your achievements and look forward to visiting you sometime in the future.
The boys dressed up in their favorite shirts and wanted to congratulate you as well.


"Wow!" Connor - really excited for Jane


"Way Cool- Jane works for the President!"
Peyton (Left no socks) Connor (Right)



"Go Jane"- (Connor-Left, Peyton- attacking the camera)



"Ok, enough pictures Mom- Let's just call Jane" (Peyton -Left, Connor - Right)

Oscars

In years past, friends of ours typically host an Oscar Night party where everyone in attendance fills out a ballot to predict the winners. It is a lot of fun and more of an excuse to eat "party" food and visit while watching. Tad and I actually won once with the most accurate ballot. However, since our boys were born and we are about 2 years behind on movies, we wouldn't stand a chance. Actually I love watching those award shows, mainly to see who wears what and who comes together. I just checked the nominees and I can honestly say I'll be watching again for the fashion element b/c I don't know much about any of them. We did see Pursuit of Happiness and Will Smith is nominated for best actor. It was a good movie but heavy. The only other movie nominated we know about was The Departed. I guess this is expected to win at least something b/c of the 5 nominees, but I did NOT like this movie. It lured us in b/c of all the big names but I don't know when I've seen a movie that disturbed me as much as that one did. The language, sex, and over all story line just wasn't what I anticipated or desired seeing. In fact, we were glad it was a renter to us instead of walking out of a theatre. Sorry to those who liked it. We don't mean to offend anyone, but I am embarrassed to say I even saw it. So anyone else into award shows? Any predictions on winners? I think the best part of this year's is that Ellen is hosting. I think she is hilarious.

Mail Call: For yesterday's readers, we did get our mail today- much to my surprise. Tad said I should put flowers sticking out of the mailbox to raise a white flag to the mail man. I didn't. Anyway HOPEFULLY it is to be 50 this weekend so some of this snow should melt. Hopefully too we are done with USPS trouble.

Attention all moms wanting to make character cakes: Let me assure all of you that the Mickey Mouse cake was easy. For those that complimented our work- Thank You. You should know though it isn't nearly as challenging as you may be thinking. Actually I think the trick to success is getting the cake out of the pan without losing the detail printed on it. If you can achieve that, then you can decorate between the lines. I remember my mom always made our birthday cakes when we were little so I wanted to try and start the tradition for my boys. Tad did help with the icing although he didn't want any pictures of evidence posted on the site. (I can say that b/c he usually doesn't read this)

This weekend we are hopeful that we're able to paint our foyer. For those of you who have been to our home, yes we are still living in most of the same colors of the previous owners. That's what happens when you get the kids on the way before you get the house. With the pregnancy and then their arrival we have not taken on too many projects around here. We hope to get the inside painted before we want to be outside this spring. We have the foyer, kitchen, and great room left. We also have that Monkey wallpaper to tackle in the guest bath, but we just leave that door shut. That is last.

The boys are down for their nap so I should get some things in order. I am working on some more recent pictures. We hope all of you have a great weekend.

We sure do miss warm weather. The boys keep looking out the screen porch and see their swings moving in the wind empty. I"m sure they wonder when they will get back outside. They enjoy watching the deer pass through our yard morning and night. There are usually at least 3 together but sometimes as many as 12. Today while the boys napped I worked on digging out our mailbox so the mailman can actually deliver the mail. I'm tired of watching for him and chasing him down across the court. Well, my efforts did get our mail delivered but it didn't help the mailman out b/c he got somewhat stuck in front of our house. He also had difficulties on the next 3 houses and didn't seem all that happy when he went back up the street. I'm sure he skips us all together tomorrow. I decided I should have left well enough alone and done something else while the boys slept. After all, it was a junk mail day only anyway.

Since we haven't emailed any pictures of the boys lately to many of you, I"m putting some pictures below of their birthday cake. We haven't uploaded recently pictures lately so that might be tomorrow's project. But for now here are some from December. Tad and I were quite proud that the homemade Mickey Mouse cake was a success. As for eating it...Peyton LOVES cake. Connor didn't have one bite. He's still not too fond of sweets- obviously not taking after his mother. More Later. Enjoy the pictures even though they are 2 mo. old.

After several months of ignoring this blog, a good friend discovered our blog and renewed our interest. I have spent nearly the entire morning, while my boys were playing and napping, trying to figure this out. I think I"m on to something. Leslie- I will try to help you get started too. Hopefully this week we will do more than stay inside and look out. We had over a foot of snow dumped on us last week and everything shut down. Tad even had 2 snow days from work- and the gov't. never shuts down. So, unless we now experience flooding, hopefully we can make it out to do something. The boys are walking everywhere these days. We will soon be out to buy a gate for the stairs because they recently discovered how to climb them but not get back down. It makes keeping up with them more of a challenge. At 14 mo. they are trying to go to 1 nap a day. YIKES! That is not exactly what I need but at least they play really well together and are good at entertaining each other when they are awake. Off to give the boys some attention and fix them lunch. That's all for now.