Hi everyone! Again, I have to apologize for not keeping up with this blog. Sorry! I have been busy with other things and lazy at the same time.
About 2-3 months ago Chris and I restarted our T-shirt business. For those of you who don't know, we used to make T-shirts from our apartment in Brooklyn before the kids came along. We had a heat press, designed and made shirts of the things we were passionate about back then. It was a lot of fun. So, now we're at it again. We couldn't take the heat press with us. It was too heavy, big and expensive for us to ship. So, we are going through Cafepress.com. The downside is that their base prices for shirts are too high. To make the shirts a bit more affordable for people to buy, we only mark them up $2-$4, which means less profit for us. The plus side is that they handle the production and shipping. If you want to check out our shirts, here is the link www.cafepress.com/koadesigns.
We celebrated Jacob's 1st birthday on February 27th. Chris's parents flew in from New Jersey to celebrate and to visit us. We enjoyed their stay, especially Kaleigh and Jacob. For Jaker's birthday we went to Discovery Gate. It's really awesome childrens museum at the Gateway Mall in Salt Lake City. The kids had a lot of fun. My sister, Rebecca, also came up from BYU-Provo to celebrate with us. Although, I think she really tagged along for the buffet (:P j/k) We went to Chuck-A-Rama buffet for dinner. As always, the food was good. I gotta say, they have the best rolls I've ever tasted!!! After dinner we went home and had cake with a live web chat with my parents and brother in Brooklyn.
Kaleigh will be turning 4 in June. She misses her Brooklyn church and playgroup friends a lot. She still talks about Hazel, Pierson, Kaitlyn, Apane, Bruce and all her other friends. She has made some friends here at our ward and around our apartment complex. But it's been hard to get out and do stuff with all the snow. Hopefully, with the weather warming up we'll be able to get out more. We also registered Kaleigh for preschool for this fall. It looks like I got some work to do with Kaleigh. The 3 year olds at this preschool are already reading 3-5 letter words! Kaleigh is still a girly girl. She loves playing with dolls, dress up and pretend mommy.
Now for Jacob. This boy never runs out of energy. He is constantly climbing on the sofa and side table. He recently started climbing on the dining room chairs and then onto the dining table. So, in the morning I have to put all the dining chairs in my bedroom. If you take him down, he'll just climb back up over and over again. He doesn't give up. He also has no fear of falling. I've been trying to get him to sit first before he goes down the slide, but he still insists that it's more fun to try to walk down the slide. Of course he falls face first and I have to catch him. This has got to be a boy thing!
Last week Chris and I bought bikes for ourselves. I finally got my own bike! Growing up I've always wanted a bike and never really got one. We didn't have any room in that dinky apartment of ours. We have bike racks in the apartment complex but we prefer to keep our bikes on our terrace, so we can cover them up when it rains or snows (hopefully it won't snow anymore, but you never know.) We don't know how people can just leave their bikes out in the open all winter long and let them get ruined by the snow and rain. We also bought a trailer/wagon for the kids to sit in that can attach to one of the bikes on long rides. So far we went on one ride. It was fun. Hopefully, Chris and I will be able get more exercise with the bikes.
I finally got my learners permit about 2 months ago. It's been taking me too long to get my driver's license. It's been hard to get to my lessons and practice because Chris usually doesn't get home till 7:00 pm and sometimes he has to work on Saturdays. But I'll get around to it. There's really no rush though because the last time I checked cars are not cheap. Also about 2 months ago, I was called to be a Valiant teacher for the 9 year olds. There are 5 kids in my class. They are a rowdy bunch, but they're sweet.
Chris is still working hard at WaMu-Chase. He is also teaching Youth Sunday School. He was having a hard time with the 12 year olds at first. They were very rowdy, couldn't pay attention and chatted in class a lot. So, I suggested he use some incentives. Now he brings them candy bars to use as a reward for good behavior and participation. This seems to be working so far.
