Happy Birthday to Me

Guess what I got for my birthday:  After 17 (almost 18) years of marriage, I have learned that leaving little things like what I want for my birthday up to chance is not the Best thing for any of us.  SO:  I dropped many a "Hint"— If you can call writing down all the specs a hint— and got this for my birthday.  Been waiting for this for many a year and was so glad when my wireless carrier decided to sell them. '

HAIL THE MIGHTY IPHONE!!!!!!

FEBRUARY: Gone too quickly

WHAT WE DID IN FEBRUARY!!!

Saw Some Beautiful Sunsets— This pic was taken while driving.  Thanks.  I like it too.

Watched Matt play a little Basketball.

Rode our ponies in our backwards fireman's hat.

Went to the spinny park

Did a little swingin'

Cute!

Dreamed about pools

Relived our childhoods

Tried to Relax a little.

My brother in law built a home in the Parade of Homes we loved it.

• Met with pool contractor
• Put off pool contractor way too many times because the bid was more than we wanted to spend, but have since been getting used to that number and want to get started before the summer's over :)
• Ben graduated from speech because he's too young to work on the stuff he needs help with and has technically met his goals with IHC speech— using 50 words or signs, and putting 3 or 4 words together.
• Celebrated Rob's 44th Birthday.— Which he spent ENTRENCHED in a case he's been working on for 6 years.  Basically, the first half of February consisted of Rob burning the midnight oil and Gail Single mommy-ing it for 3 full weeks.  Needless to say, we are glad to be done with that.  Due to a need to hook up to the court media system Robert had to upgrade to the iPad 2 and our iPad became mine alone.  and the kids.  etc.  Rob, however is over the moon and has spent the rest of the month learning his new "Tool" and maximizing his utilization of it.  
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Retro December Update

Because no one really reads this except me and it's more like a journal, I feel the need to update you with some minutiae anticipating the publishing I will inevitably do.

Playin' around with daddy's goggles

Hangin' out on temple square for the Sperry Weddings

Ben and Dad at the Reception

Grandma and MJ (Matthew Jr) Sperry

Taking Liberties.  I can assure you smacks were traded

Waiting, Waiting, Waiting, for mom and dad to be ready for presents

Impromptu mirror portrait

Ben is not super good with the Christmas line sign thing.

In the hats and scarves Virginia made us

Maggie takes over the Christmas sign responsibilities.

CHRISTMAS 2011: We drove to Salt Lake twice during Christmas vacation for our niece's weddings.  One before Christmas, one after.  We had a lot of fun hanging out with our cousins and exploring Historic Temple Square.