January

Pathetic, I know. But here it is none the less.

Faith (Cody's sister) came to visit at the very end of December and stayed with us for 10 days. Baylee was quite the pickle trying to show off for Aunt Faith. Definitely tested my patience, but we were so glad to have Faith here with us! Unfortunately, she got another dose of our bitter, nasty cold and I don't think she was warm at any point during the whole stay. We didn't do much besides hang out and shop while she was here. We went bowling one night with our friends Robbie and Fabiano, it was a lot of fun, Baylee loved it especially. We did visit the Arch in St. Louis and took a ride to the top when we took Faith back to the airport. As many trips as we have made to St Louis, you'd think we would have done this before now.

And honorable mention is deserved in that Faith watched Baylee one night so that we could go see Avatar. It is a rare, rare occasion we get to go out childless and it was very fabulous. Thanks again Faith!!!!

We had a decent snow storm right as she was leaving. It piled our drifts up to about 4-5 ft at the highest point. We finally went out and took advantage of the drifts a few days later.

We visited the Chanute Air Museum in Rantoul, IL. It was a pretty poor excuse for an Air Force Museum and is in dire need of funding. It is on the old Air force base that was shut down in the 90's. About 80% of the aircraft were in horrendous shape, which was less than impressive. We are glad we went and can say we've been there, made our contribution and doubt we will ever return. The historical society of Rantoul had quite an extensive display and that was probably my favorite part second to the prisoner of war items.

The rest of January was spent hanging out in the somewhat warmth of the house.