Happy Easter / Happy Spring!

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Hello friends and family!

We missed doing Christmas cards this year, but we were able to get the kids in for some spring photos by Lifetouch. So, warm tidings of the Easter season and arriving springtime to all of you! We're hoping that the warm feelings turn to warm temperatures, since it has been downright cold here in Minnesota for the past week. We were teased with a few very warm days, but had to pull our coats back out during a counterpunch cold snap.

The kids continue to grow and change. Emma is six and in kindergarten. She loves school, and is already looking forward to being a first grader in the fall. She attends a half-day (AM) kindergarten in a new "early childhood education / kindergarten" building with all of the half-day kindergarteners in the district. Owen, proud to be a four-year-old, starts preschool in the fall downstairs from where Emma is going to school now. Sean is closing in on two years old (a May birthday), and shows every indication of planning to charge around the yard and the neighborhood with enthusiasm when the warm weather comes. The words are starting to bubble up as well, which is fun....

Mandy is kept very busy with the three not-so-little ones, and she has continued her involvement in the local MOMS Club and also volunteering for Early Childhood Family Education and helping out in Emma's classroom. In response to Mandy's instruction for John to "volunteer for something" at the first PTC (aka PTA) meeting, he is now the president of the kindergarten PTC. His day job at Lifetouch continues to be very interesting, and he manages the corporate R&D group there.

We hope this blog post finds you well! Think Spring!

-John, Mandy, Emma, Owen, and Sean Reinert Nash