Where are we???

Tammy is being stubborn and not willing to blog until I do, so I thought I better write something. I'll write what we've been up to and then maybe we'll go back and fill in more and pictures later. We had a nice Christmas - I think we actually made it through the whole holiday break without any illness which may be a first for our family. I spent a lot of the time off working on our little bathroom project that's drug on for three months now. It started out a simple paint job and has turned into a full remodel. It's coming along nicely though and I'll post some pictures of the finished product one of these days.

Just after the New Year, Adam and I went to a college basketball game - Iowa vs. Michigan State. We've mentioned before that Adam likes basketball - this year he is fanatical. When it comes tournament time, I recommend calling Adam for advice before putting together your bracket. He knows every team (even the little ones) and everything about them - their records, their streaks, their ranks, their conference ranks, their high scorers, you name it. He's filled his little photographic brain with everything you ever wanted to know about college basketball. Anyway, he LOVED the game, even though Michigan State lost (he's a big Spartan fan). We had a great time.

The next weekend we headed to Kansas to meet up with all my family. Aside from the weather and a few weather related delays, we had a great time! My whole family was there - all the kids' cousins (14 in all), Grandma (and her new boyfriend), my brother and sisters and spouses. It was a great time ... until .... Adam and Anna picked up a fever. So we packed up and headed home just a littler earlier than we planned. By the time we arrived, Lizzy had the fever too. I picked it up the next day, and Ben came down with it the following. That was a full week ago, and we're all still fighting it. Lots of coughing, lots of fevers, lots of crying and whimpering (mostly me) . Miraculously (and thankfully) Tammy has been spared. We think we're nearly through it now (though Lizzy had a fever again tonight and Adam has an earache now).

Tonight we celebrated Anna's 6th Birthday. Happy Birthday Anna!!! We'll get some pictures of her out soon and will write a post all about our sweet Anna soon.

One last note. If you've read this far, you must be serious Finch Family Blog Fans, so this is for you! In addition to reading our fine blog here, you can now buy our blog! That's right, pay money to read our ramblings! We've published all our 2006 blog entries in a book called - this is exciting - The Finch Family Blog 2006. You can buy it here.

We're going to go back and publish 2005 also soon. We mostly wanted a hard copy of our blog for posterity sake (in case Google's hard drive crashes some day :-). We found this cool publish on demand place called Lulu.com. You just upload your book as a word document or PDF, then create a cover for it and they print one anytime somebody orders it. It's all free unless you want to buy the book. So, you can choose ... keep reading our words of wisdom for free online ... or wait until the 2007 hard copy comes out next year.