Casey and Andrea update

Hi everyone! We have had a pretty good February! We celebrated Allison's 5th birthday and my 36th birthday. On Allison's birthday, we pulled out a bounce house, I made a "Max and Ruby" cake and we had 8 of her cousins and friends over. (We were watching Drew and Joel for the weekend so they were both there anyway!) The only sad part was that Allison came home from school with a fever. We doped her up with Tylenol and went ahead with the party. We just kept her away from everyone as much as we could. We felt bad for her because I think she really wanted to just go to bed. For my birthday, Casey took me to our favorite restaurant, "Hole in the Wall BBQ." (They'll be the ones doing some catering for us at the reunion-Casey did some trade). Anyway, the other notable event this month was the refinance of our house! We lowered our payment by $500 a month and pulled out some money. We got an amazing interest rate (4.875%) so we're pretty happy! We are going to save the extra cash in the hopes that we'll be able to do some home improvements before the reunion. (We're watching the economy closely to try and decide whether to use the cash or just save it for a rainy day.) We have had a blast planning the reunion...I know it seems early but we had to put all of our deposits down by February 1st in order to get the parks and the roller skating rink. We were also very lucky to get the temple on the day we wanted...they fill up very fast! All of this planning has made us realize how much we miss you all! August can't come soon enough! (I include a few pictures that you may have already seen on facebook...a few of Allison's birthday, one of the Allison and Lydia dancing in a downpour and one of the girls one morning before church.)