UPDATE

February has been a crazy month!

Brandon is at school until 4:30pm and it's dark soon after so we do not have so many photo's of him but we'll try to get some soon.

School is a challenge for Brandon but he is trying to get his grades up this quarter by going to school an hour before it opens to get his work done or re-do work he missed or did not pass the first time.

Caitlin and Patrick just had their 100th day of school for the year and are already talking about summer break. Patrick is about to sit the State tests which begin Monday.

Nina has three weeks left of this term. So far all "A's" but PE is the biggest challenge (can you believe it!) She is taking Tai Chi (not so bad) but Kombatan (Phillipino Martial Arts) is quite the challenge. Lots of fighting with sticks. Tuesday she was all but knocked out when her stick bounced off her 300lb 6 foot opponents stick and hit her in the head!

Kevin just returned from a whirl wind trip to Halifax, St John, Montego Bay, Atlanta, Toronto, Halifax again and home. He was gone for two weeks and by the time he returned, we all got sick.

That's all for now. Wish you all well.

Natural Wonders

The kids were very excited this week. We had an incredible lunar eclipse then a glorious rainbow!

Kids Play

The sun fought off the horrid black rain clouds and won today! I got some well derserved vitamin D whilst the kids played at the park.

The kids thought it was summer in contrast to the cold we have had lately. (It was only 10 degrees celcius.)

We went to Fields Park and the kids played basketball but the big favourite was the tire swing. Pat likes to swing the girls so hard and fast that he falls over.

The Beilby Christmas

As some of you are aware, The Beilby family does not indulge in the over commercialized event that Christmas has become. Instead, we choose to reconnect by spending countless hours in a car followed by eating and sleeping together to the point where we cannot wait to get back to our own and reality!

This year, we headed north to Everett, Washington, the home of the Boeing "Future of Flight" centre, the largest building in the world (approx 75 football fields), manufacturing facility and home to the new 787 "Dreamliner". Our informative tour took us through the facility where we witnessed work on several planes in various stages of creation.

Ah! Christmas in the magical land of Leavenworth. What a treat. Leavenworth is a quaint Bavarian style town East of Seattle at the base of the Cascade mountains (around 6 hours from our house).