Trips

Ryan and I got to go to Kansas City in the middle of March for the DFA annual meeting. What a fun, and tiring, experience. Very long days. It is great to get to meet such nice people, not only in the YC program but in the coop as a whole. We are greatly looking forward to National Milk in October in Nashville.

I was home from the annual meeting for one day then the kids and I headed to Wyoming, the equality state, for one of our twice yearly long visits with family. We dyed Easter eggs, which was a first for the kids. They seemed to enjoy it. I thought it would be interesting to see how the kids have changed from one year to the next, so the 2007 Easter picture is on the left and 2008 is on the right. The picture of egg-dying with cousins, minus 3, is below. I don't know where two of them were and the other is only a couple months old.

During our visit Kaleb finally decided to be potty trained, after 6 long months. I have tried to think back on what we changed in our handling of the situation that could have made him finally get it, but I don't think there was anything. Something finally just clicked for him. We are VERY thankful for that to be over. I think it was a little like being a teenager. He wanted to be a big boy, but then again he didn't.

Funny story, we are getting my sister's old futon for a couch because our current couch has had mice in it, love living in the country, and I just can't stand that to be in the house. Anyway, my parents brought the frame to my grandparents' house in December with the intention that I would go up there to pick it up. It never worked out for me to do so, and because we weren't going home from Wyoming through there (we took a southern route) we picked up what we could fit on our way back to Wyoming. The poor thing made a useless trip, which my Grandpa and Dad were quick to point out. :)