Whew!

I TOLD you it was the crazy season! Here's pretty much the rundown on what's up:

- Jeff has changed projects. He is no longer working on the Bison project on the American Prairie Reserve. The main reason is that to obtain useful data on bison grazing, he needs about a decade to collect data - which we don't have. Instead, he is working on a small mammal (and possibly coyotes and raptor) study down on the Matador ranch owned by the Nature Conservancy. Good news is this ranch is a little bit closer and is down the highway instead of a gravel road. Bad news is this is pretty much like starting over. Jeff has been working a ton to get a new proposal written and studying for comps, which he will take in April.

- Speaking of comps, Jeff will be headed to Missoula in late April to take them, so I get to go home! David and I will be headed to STL on April 24th and be there for two weeks until May 8th. I think this will be good as it will eliminate the major distractions for Jeff as he prepares for these comps and does other important, school related stuff.

- Jeff's mom visited last week. It was an unbelieveablly productive visit - and not much of a vacation for her! We repainted the living room, dining room, and staircase; rearranged the wall decor in the living room; tore down a lilac bush in front, trimmed bushes, tore down other small weird trees, trimmed trees, planned the garden and window box, and got a new celing fan. I'm sure there was other stuff we did too, but I can't remember. We all also got to go to Billings for a night to take her to the airport.

- Speaking of Billings - while we were there, we got a new car! Well, new to us. It's an '06 Nissan Altima and it's really cute and runs great. Most importantly, we got a good deal on it and a lot for our trade too. We'd been praying about getting a bigger car and didn't want to have a big car payment at all. We were planning on selling the Scion XA to get as much as we could towards another car. The dealership gave us almost what we wanted to sell it for towards the Nissan, so it was just perfect.

- Lastly, I finally opened my etsy site. It's a site where I sell things that I make - little kids accessories (just hair clips right now, but hopefully more to come). You can check it out at www.lilbitdesigns.etsy.com

David is getting to be so much fun now. He'll be 5 months in a few days! He's sitting up without a ton of help from us now and is using his voice all the time now!

We are very excited to see friends and family at home!