Major Catch-up! Please start with Part 1 and work your way up!

Hello everyone!!! I am soo glad to get this blog caught up and I am very sorry for keeping you all waiting!! We were pretty much sick with 2 different bugs for about 5 and 1/2 weeks!!! Noah and I had it the worst! Noah started with Bronchialitis and then after improving, a week later ended up with pneumonia. We just slowly plugged our way through it, holidays, and anything else that came our way...2 flat tires, freezer on our fridge stopped working, sprang a leak in our kitchen pipes on a night were the outside temps were around -30 below zero for example. Then once we were doing better (a few weeks ago...) and I knew I was really behind on here...I just froze (no pun intended). Do you ever do that? Get so overwhelmed with something that you just can't do it? That sometimes seems to be the story of my life :) OK...enough of the exposing of my weaknesses!! I hope you all enjoy these pages :Major Catch-up! Part 1-8. They are in chronological order, so please start there! We hope you all had wonderful Christmases! We would love to hear from you all! Keep in touch!