Auntie and Ellie are coming, and the Flu is Here!!!!!!!

     Ugh!  I have been so excited that Meagan and Ellie are arriving tomorrow.... BUT Scott and Ethan have the flu!  Fever for two days now, staying in bed, sore throats...I have been tending to them around the clock, and feel I am fighting it too.  Fiona is the trooper.  So far so good for her.  All that fresh air working on her civilization!  We all got our flu shots this year too.  The boys are on Tamiflu, which is supposed to cut the length of sickness in half.  I hope it works fast!!!  Poor Meagan and Ellie!  I must say, I gave them full disclosure.
     On another note, Ethan started baseball this past week.  (Perhaps where the boys picked up this nasty virus!)  He and Scott seem to think they have a winning team this year!  Speaking of winning teams!!!  How about those Patriots!?!  We watched the game with the Dutys, and at first some of them were rooting for the Falcons, but by the end of that game everyone was a Patriots fan!!!!!
     On Tuesday night the kids had their first official sleepover in Texas!  Ethan and Fiona were so excited all week to sleep over CJ's house.  There they have Tiger (12), Tess(10), Nathan (9) and Luke (5) to keep them busy!  Also CJ's daughter Daraugh and her husband Weston are living there, so it is a happy, full house!  With the kids away, Scott and I got to PLAY!  We enjoyed a nice evening of sushi and bowling.  Two nights later we took the kids to the symphony to see E.T. accompanied with LIVE ORCHESTRA!!!!!  It was soooo amazing!  I cried when Elliot and E.T. had to say goodbye, like I do every time.  The music was mind blowing.
     I am now looking forward to a home full of healthy family, and fun warm days ahead.

Superbowl party!

Tomatoes are going strong.

Fiona weaved this outside!

Getting their tin can kiln ready.

My bowling buddy.

Love these shoes!

This was up on the score board for all to see.  Yeah, there were some seriously jealous ladies...

My Valentine's....

Seth, Samuel and Andrew stopped by before their first game of the season.  Go Mustang's!

Charlotte from a few houses down just loves my pig!

Here are the girls bounding over from their yard.  If they spy Fiona or Ethan out front they usually pay us a visit.  So cute!

All dressed for the symphony!

We ate at Torchy's Tacos before the show.  The food was just as the sign says.

At riding lesson last week "Donkey" escaped again...

"You can't see me.  I'm camouflage with this pile of wood."

The boys before the first practice.

We are bird sitting again this week.  Kids had a blast making perches out of "Kinects".

Valentine bears!

Fiona got an extra bear from her brother.

From my dear husband.