words, words, words!

Eli can say "ball" and "uh-oh"!!! Yeah Eli!!

Hello!

Well, we've all been awfully quiet, haven't we? I hope everyone is doing well. I thought I'd jump on and catch up, but since there's nothing to catch up on, I'll catch all of you up!

Life is good here. Crazy, as always, but good. I'm down about 13 pounds - it's been hard to get past that 10 lb mark, but I'm going to have to really buckle down these next few weeks because we booked our anniversary trip! We're cruising in Hawaii. We fly to Honolulu and board our boat and we island hop for 7 days. Then we come home to boring life again! But I'm sure excited about our trip. We leave on May 12th, so I have a little time to play catch up with the weight loss. Next week we're going down to Vegas for a wedding (a Temple wedding :) ) then the next week we're off to PA for Noah's baptism and then on to OK to look at a lot right next door to Brian's parents' house. We're thinking about buying it and building our "dream home" on it and then his family will be able to help with the business when we're out of town. But, gulp, that means living so close to in-laws! Even if it were my own family I'd be nervous! So, we'll see. Then at the end of April we're in Portland for a convention and then we do Hawaii in May and then, and I can't remember the actual order of these, but then we're in Boston, Dallas, Vegas, Reno, St. Louis, Daytona, Fort Collins...I hope that's all! It's all for magic conventions. Hopefully we'll make lots of money 'cause traveling isn't cheap!

Good news for our company - McDonald's just decided to outfit all the Ronald's they have in the US doing magic with a bunch of our stuff. That's a HEFTY purchase order! It'll help us bring in a few new prodcuts that we weren't sure how we were going to manage. And we might be breaking into the toy industry soon, too, so lots of exciting things going on for our company! :)

OK. I'm done rambling. But I hope you are all doing well and that you all made Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Brownies!!