Busy

Well, I am officially a HORRIBLE blogger. But I offer up two excuses:
1--I am insanely busy right now and what little time I do have, I end up catching up with everyone via facebook
2--I do not have adorable and cute children to post fun stories/pictures of

So, those are my excuses =). Here is a little update of what has been happening in the Halvorsen household.

1) The dogs have apparently resolved to be good dogs this year (at least so far...after what-7/8 weeks of the year down)? They have only had one bad day, and all they did was take a Disney movie out of its case and then lay it on the floor....so they apparently still dislike Disney movies, but they didn't actually chew anything up, so maybe they were just letting us know that they can still do these fun things for us. Other than that, they have been little angels....I keep waiting to come home to some destruction, but so far, so good. Yay doggies!

2) Justin is getting busy at work with all sort of acronyms that I won't even try to explain. LBB, LAR, etc, etc....I try to understand it myself, but I can't really explain it except that he is in charge of delegating to other people the task of figuring out how each bill (and there are LOTS of bills) proposed by legislators would impact their agency. Then, after the other people do the work, he has to fix it and make it right, since apparently some people can't do their jobs (and maybe because he's a perfectionist and if his name is on it, it MUST be perfect--or as close to perfect as possible). This week he even got a call straight from the governor's office, so apparently he is pretty important these days...though he's always been important to me!

3) I am, as afore mentioned, insanely busy right now. My life consists of working out, going to work, leaving work, eating dinner, doing more work, and sleeping. Then, on my "workends" (I refuse to call them weekends right now) I do more work, mostly on my master's degree projects, but inevitably there is also TSD work to do. It is never ending and I REFUSE to EVER teach FIVE subjects again. It is beyond insane and I WILL learn how to explain to these people that it's craziness. I hope.

4) A few fun things we have done...
We got to spend Super Bowl Sunday with McKayla at our house. She had a great time (we think), and spent almost the whole day playing with my "fragile bears" (and yes, that is what SHE called them). For those of you confused about what "fragile bears" are, they are my Boyd's Bears. She made up stories about them, gave them all names, and in general just had a great time holding them. Apparently entertaining a 3 year old is easier than I imagined. I thought our house might be boring, little did I know how exciting 'fragile bears' can be! Add in about 20 readings of her favorite book at our house, "Mouse Paint," a few minutes "riding" her bike that we got her, and a quick trip to the park and we had completed a fun-filled day. Then, we took her home and spent that evening watching the Super Bowl with everyone. I, of course, held the babies as much as possible while watching the games. They are still only about 12-13 pounds (and 8 months old now from their birth date!), but they are rolling around like champs and Hailey is going to be crawling soon (if she hasn't already!). Unfortunately, we have not seen them since then, and I have no idea when we will get to see them again. It's pretty sad to live only 20 minutes from them and NEVER see them! Some day soon, hopefully.
We also celebrated our five year "together" anniversary and it was actually on a Saturday, so it was exactly 5 years. We went to an IMAX 3-D movie, the LBJ Museum to see the space exploration exhibit, and then tried out a new chinese buffet that had GREAT sushi. It was a lot of fun, and I was glad to have a few hours off from working/studying.
We also had a nice Valentine's Day, though I did have to spend a good portion of it doing work. We went to one of our favorite down-town restaurants where we had planned to sit outside, but after a week of weather in the 70-80's, Val's day was only about 50. So, we had to sit inside, but we made the best of it and enjoyed the time together.
We also recently got to watch a good movie that we recommend to all of our friends, "Fireproof". It's a Christian movie about marriage and I actually really enjoyed it and it had lots more action that I thought it would. Plus, when I found out everyone in the movie, except Kirk Cameron, was just a church volunteer I was even more amazed, they were actually pretty good! So, if you haven't seen it yet-go to Red Box and rent it--it's only $1 and totally worth it!

That's about it from our household for now. I will try very hard to be a slightly better blogger, but I make no promises! And one last thing, wish me and my kiddos good luck as we will be traveling to Wisconsin School for the Deaf this coming Thursday for our Regional tournament. The top three teams then go onto Nationals in Washington, D.C., so we'll see what happens! I love those kids, so I hope for the best for the team this year!!!

Take care everyone! I'll try to post pictures from our day with McKayla sometime soon too!