We had a nice weekend, even though the kids were still sick.

Saturday morning Jason and my Dad went to the old house and finished cleaning out the garage, taking the cardboard and junk from the side yard, dumping it, and bringing over the final load of stuff to the new garage. We owe a big thank you to my Dad for all his help. He's giving us a TON of his time over the past couple of weeks and we're very grateful to him for his wanting to help us so much. He's not a fan of checking websites, so that was mostly just for you all to know and for my Mom to pass on to him though of course we've told him in person as well.

Saturday afternoon we did some odd jobs around the house. Jason ran a lot of errands and I stayed home with the kids, making sure they took nice, long naps. Saturday night we went to my parent's house for some yummy homemade soup Dad made. Ethan loved it and to my surprise, ate a whole bowl of it; veggies and all!

Today has been a nice day... the weather is warming up, but not too fast. It was warm, but very breezy out here. The kids are doing SO much better already, but Jason still stayed home with them and I got to go to church, since I had piano duty and a VBS meeting after church.

This afternoon our friends Peter and Julie Handel came over with Indian food for lunch! We had such a nice time with them. Julie and I were good friends growing up and it was great fun spending time with the two of them. We had fun talking tech talk, looking at Peter's iPhone (yes, I know, we're very lucky) and just catching up on life. Thanks for the yummy lunch, guys! Next time we'll head over your way.

Update (Jason): Julie posted some pix from the visit here.

Thanks to those of you who have been praying for our kids! I think we're on the mend and much quicker than the Doctor had thought. Apparently, this can last up to 3 weeks.

I'm hoping to get back to normal life this week. Our CBS Bible study is having its last meeting this Wednesday and then we break for the summer, so we're really hoping to make it to say good bye (for now) to our friends.