Here is our most recent family picture. It was taken 16 Dec at Geoff and Emily's house.

Here we are in the Christmas spirit.

Cute Family Pictures

Here are some of our favorites of the family pictures we had taken yesterday. They were taken by our neighbor, Mike Lyman. Enjoy!

Jumping for Joshua

Boy, oh boy!

What a time we've had since yesterday.

Anna took Joshua in yesterday for a checkup and when she came out the car was having issues. It was shaking and sputtering- it was all she could do to get it to a mechanic. Well, $187 dollars later they had the problem fixed and Anna brought the car home.

This morning I was going to drive to work but the car wouldn't start, and when it did start it shook a bit. Anna went to take it in again today, but the guy who worked on it yesterday wasn't there and the guy on duty wasn't as good (so they said). So we're without a usable car for the weekend.

If that isn't enough, I have one more adventure to tell about. This morning at 4:30 (while I was at work. I seem to miss all the excitement) the fire alarms in our building went off. Anna hurried to get the kids, including an extremely tired and uncooperative Adam out of the apartment. There was no sign of a fire, but they got to wait outside for about half an hour while they waited for the fire department to come and for the police to try to get a hold of our manager.

Here's what happened.

Our upstairs neighbors are out of town right now and their heater kicked on but wouldn't turn off. Well, with the hot air blowing it got up to 155 degrees and burst open the fire sprinklers. Their apartment quickly became a pond and much of it leaked down into our apartment. We have a fan blowing on our carpet right now. We're alright, but we feel bad for our neighbors whose plants were all killed by the heat. They had some cool plants too.

Now it's 10:30 a.m. and we're wondering what we're even going to do today.

Oh, and Joshua's checkup was fine. He's doing great.