Usually you don't go north for vacation in the winter, but that's what we did last week. Our son invited us to come visit him and his family while they were visiting his wife's family so we headed north. We hadn't seen them in a year so we were excited for a visit. We left right after church on Sunday and drove without stopping to Boise. We had an Airbnb and it worked out nicely. We were able to visit the Larsen family and play lots of games. Some of us went skiing at Bogus Basin while the rest of us took a walk or played around the Larsens' and enjoyed the remarkably pleasant weather. The next day, we took a look at the Anne Frank/Human Rights Memorial in downtown Boise and walked on the Boise River Greenbelt Trail. Unfortunately it was pretty cold and windy so we didn't last long doing that. Despite that, we had a great time visiting with our son and his wife and baby and playing lots of games. We headed back Wednesday morning, making good time, so we could fi...

 Jan just turned 28! He has many good qualities we admire. Jan is a cheerful and easy-going guy who enjoys a good joke and is always kind. As a baby he loved to eat and grew quickly. He ate every 2 hours for what seemed like a lot of months and weighed 20 lbs. when he was 4 months. A woman at church told me, "I just love to come to church and see how much bigger your baby is every week!" He is more than 2 years, 8 months younger than his older brother David but soon caught up to him in size. Still my tallest child. He loved to be involved in the kitchen and would drag over chairs to help me wash dishes and cook, usually making a mess. He had a little blue scarf he enjoyed wearing around the house for a while. He liked to go grocery shopping with me and campaign for his favorite foods. He was a little shy around people and would stay pretty quiet in public. His teachers would tell me how quiet he was at school or church but this was not the Jan we knew at home. He could be ple...