January
Where does the time go? Sorry about the delay. February has
been a busy month (plus we kept forgetting to write it…) but now we are finally
able to sit down and catch you up on the lives of the Reimers in January.
The month began with us heading home. Heading out from Great
Falls, MT, we began our long flight to Chicago. We arrived at 3 in the morning
only to find out that the hotel shuttle service didn’t start until 4, so we
opted for the taxi instead, crashing in our room only to wake up 6 hours later
to make sure we didn’t miss the continental breakfast. Getting our belongings
together, we signed out and began heading home. Tannin slept the whole way,
making it a great time for Olivia and I to talk and enjoy music.
The next day, Tannin got to go to a birthday party for our
friends’ baby! We enjoyed some great snacks and I decided to spill some hot
chocolate all over myself…and the wall…and the carpet floor, lol. Whoops. Luckily,
everything cleaned up fine.
A huge milestone for Tannin, he jumped with both his feet
off the ground on the 6th! This isn’t supposed to happen until he’s
2 ½ to 3 years old! Wow, our boy is pretty awesome!
Right before this, I began driving bus again on the 5th,
followed by NTBI starting up again on the 9th, though I was working
in the kitchen well before then. Olivia got the break up until the 9th
though, lucky her!
One important thing we need to share with you guys that we
have been holding back for over 2 months now (I suppose it’s over 3 months as
of this writing)…my wife’s pregnant!!!...again, lol. So, on the 13th,
she went to her first midwife appointment and got to hear the baby’s heartbeat.
Definitely assuring for her since she hadn’t been able to see a midwife for
over a month since knowing.
The month closed out with a big surprise for my honey. I had
been communicating with her family in Alabama and on the 24th, right
before her birthday, I picked up her sister Shelby from the airport. She had
decided to surprise my wife and so I told Olivia I would do all the errands
that day and she could relax at home until I got back. I originally was going
to take Tannin as well, but he decided to get sleepy – those kids, lol. Well,
that gave me the perfect excuse to go pick Shelby up, so I left early to get as
many errands done as I could (because they did actually need to get done J) and then picked her
up, stopping to pick some flowers up on the way back home.
Once we arrived at the school, I had her hide out of sight
until I could go home and keep Olivia from accidently seeing her. We almost
messed up, but Olivia thought I was just hiding a surprise present (which I
was, lol) behind my back. So, she closed her eyes and then I gave her the
flowers and we went to our house. A few minutes later, as we were talking in
Tannin’s room, the doorbell rang. I told Olivia we should see who it is, and
when she opened the door, boy was she surprised to see her sister standing
there! It was a great time!
The next 10 days were great having her around. She was a
real help, especially babysitting for us. She watched Tannin all day on the 25th
so that I could treat my wife for her birthday! We went to a tactical laser tag
facility called iCombat and got to shoot each other with guns that made
shooting sounds and had recoil to match it. Not to mention, the guns looked
like real M16’s! It was a great time…even if she beat me. Then we had to race
back for me to play a NTBI league volleyball game. Following that, I brought
her out to Texas Roadhouse, one of our favorites!
The rest of the month was spent hanging out with Shelby and
letting the two sisters catch up. That meant I got a lot of reading done…a lot,
lol. It was good though. I had been wanting to get caught up on some of my
reading projects and it worked out perfectly. I got a charter that last
Saturday which meant that they got a full day together going to the mall, etc.
From what they told me, they had a great day!
Well, that’s all folks. Hopefully we can get February’s done
a little quicker. J
God bless.
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