Three in a Row!

I feel so proud to have made my goal 3 for 3 months :)  Happy Spring!  What a snowy Spring it has been.  Luckily none of it has stuck since the official change of seasons, but still - seeing that white stuff falling from the sky is a little depressing.  I included a picture of Eben and Aliza looking out the door at our big pile of snow in Feb.  I think our grand total was 25 inches in 24hrs!!  It was so insane!  The one with Zane (and his crazy hair/face) and Aliza was taken today.  Just shy of 10 months!  He officially started to do the traditional crawl a couple days ago.  He had been getting around by various means, but he finally figured it out. He doesn't do it much, but he sure looks cute when he does!

Tomorrow night is a big one!  First off, Carol arrives with her family for a week visit!!!  We haven't seen them since Christmas, so it will be wonderful to have them here!  And secondly, we have our opening night of our church Easter Cantata.  This is the first year I've decided to be in one of the Cantatas.  I am a storyteller and I think I've got close to the most lines in the play.  Its been years since I've been in any kind of production, so I won't lie and say I'm not nervous.  Our dress rehearsal made it seem very real and being on stage definitely made it more difficult to remember lines.  However, I am doing MUCH better than my partner storyteller, who was still holding the book at dress rehearsal!!  Oh my goodness.  I sure hope she has kicked it in gear and knows her lines by tomorrow!!!  We have 3 performances and from what I've seen in the past, they are all pretty much a full house. 

In other news, the kids are doing well.  We had conferences for all of them and besides for Nora's shyness, they were all raving about the kids.  Such proud parents we are!  Aliza's teacher said, "if anyone should have a lot of kids, its you guys."  Wow!  And she doesn't know we're having another!!!  I am 10 1/2 weeks along and have finally realized that I can't eat as much at a sitting as I used to.  After every lunch and dinner I feel so sick, so I FINALLY decided not to eat as much today for dinner and I certainly felt better.  Not great, but better.  I'll take it!  We have been tossing names around for awhile now and it just gets harder the more kids you have, especially since I want the names to fit with the other kids' names, yet not sound like them too much, and mean something good. (E - rock of help,  A - joy,  N - honor, Z - God is gracious)  I think we're pretty close on a boy name, but the girls are killin' us :)  Then there's the idea of not finding out the gender this time.  Jared says he'd be fine with that, and a part of me thinks it would be fun - BUT, knowing me, we'll have a gender announcement to make May 29th :)  We may keep the name a secret though.....

Well, here are a few photos to tide you over until next month...