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Miss Abby had a wonderful birthday.  She really enjoys opening presents now... it may not matter what they are, but she really likes opening them.  We had a little party for her with another family and Grandma and Grandpa D. who were here for about 10 days helping out and having fun.  The party was good.  Sara made party hats for all the kids, with Abby's help.  The kids made a big fort in Sara's room and even played outside some (the couple minutes of relative calm was nice).

Keeping up with zany weather around here.  It was frigid all of January, then it warmed up last week, so much so that all of our snow melted (the sandbox below had been buried at the beginning of the previous week).  On Saturday the girls played outside for a while.  Sunday we did all sort of stuff for Abby's birthday, and then Sunday evening the snow and rain started...

Saturday fun!

Two days after the ice and snow storm... still icy.