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So the kids and I are visiting MD this summer – weather or not Jason is coming  is still up in the air.

While I would like him to join us it is not an absolute necessity.

The truth is he and I have very different views on visiting MD.  I cannot wait to go back, there are so many people I want to see and so many things I want to do.  I am planing to be back for three weeks and hoping I can squeeze everything into that time.

The hardest thing is Jason has asked – and argued – and logically pointed out – that this will have to be our last trip to MD for a while.  In fact until 2012.

I have to admit it hurts me just to say that.  Two and a half years is such a long time to be away from so many people I love.

In fact trips back to MD have become one of the few things Jason and I fight about.  I wish I could go “Back East” every year, and several of my good friends out here who are from the East Coast do – it seems so unfair that I am the only one who doesn’t get to go back.

But the truth is our financial system just doesn’t allow it. So as hard as it is for me to face the truth I have to – our trip this summer will be the last until the summer of 2012.

Until then all of you – my friends and family have an open standing invitation to come and visit us in Seattle – We don’t have a ton of room but we will make it work if you come!!!

I miss you all and love you… and I cannot wait to see and hang out with you this summer – 20 full days in MD….  I am so looking forward to the sun and the warmth and all the familiar faces.

Start looking for e-mails over the next few days/weeks setting up times and dates to hang out with us.

Love you all.

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In honor of her birthday here is my list of ten or so of Jason and I’s favorite things about Willoweve…

This is of course not an exhaustive list.  There are so very many things to love about Willoweve also this list is in no particular order.

1) Her imagination – Willoweve puts my imagination to shame and that takes some work. 

2) The child is beyond lovely.  I love her curls and her bright blue eyes. I know every parent thinks there child is beautiful but she really is.  Take a look:

3) She loves pink – I swear before Willoweve was born I could count the pink things in our house on one hand – now – uhm – well… yeah I don’t think I could count them.

4) Willoweve is resilient and determined.  She doesn’t quit and she doesn’t let setbacks stop her.

5) She loves Horses – no elaboration needed.

6) She isn’t a morning person – like her daddy – she would rather stay up late at night then get up early in the morning.  Most days I have to wake her up – which I get to do by going into her room and snuggling her awake.

7) She says the most amazing things.  For example the other day we are in the car and she brought like five stuffed cats with her.  When I laughingly ask her about them she says, in a matter of fact voice and with a casual shrug. “I just feel comfortable around kitty’s.”  Uhm…. ok… I was laughing to hard to really reply to this.

She loves her friends and she wants to make them happy.  She would go out of her way to make her friends happy.

8.5) She is a princess.  She wants to act like a princess and dress like a princess… she does a pretty good job of it most of the time too.  Like when I hear her ordering her brothers about when they are “helping” her clean her room.  To solve that problem we had to ban her brothers from helping her… they weren’t to devastated.

9) She’s just a little shy of people she doesn’t know.  She gets over it pretty quick though – especially if she has something to talk to them about. And she really does love to talk – amazing for a little girl who did two and a half years of speech therapy.

9.5) She gives great hugs.

10) Willoweve is caring, companionate and smart.   She loves to play with others and also craves her own personal space and distance from others.  She is a great deal like Jason and at the same time so very much like me.  In many ways of our three children I would say she is the one who blends the two of us the most.  Willoweve is going to grow up to be an amazing, strong, and loving woman who will touch the world and change it for the better.

To summarize Willoweve is a wonderful person.

Happy Birthday Willoweve – Daddy and I love you so much and we are honored to be your parents.

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It’s march and it is going to be a crazy month. 

Thursday is Willoweve’s birthday – Friday is Jason’s.  Then the 11th I will be having surgery on my foot.

Then I will have as my doctor puts it – Two weeks of being completely useless. Then two weeks of being ALMOST completely useless.

March is also Rachel, Amy, and Deb’s birthday as well.  Apparently I get along well with people who were born in March

Happy Birthday everyone.

To all my friends – If you live in the area please stop by and visit me this month while I am laying around being useless. I am sure I will need all the company I can get.

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