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I want to clean up the readers list on this blog before we leave for Russia (hopefully sooner rather than later!!!!).  Within a month or so from being home we will stop blogging on The Overstreet Journey Continued and just continue our family blog here.  I can only have 100 readers added to the blog list so I wanted to delete any accounts that are no longer reading.  If you are seeing this message :o)  and would like to continue to read the blog just leave your first and last name in the comments below or email us at jnhoverstreet@yahoo.com

I will leave this message up for two weeks and then do the clean up (March 7th).

Thanks for checking in on us! 

Updates through Pictures

On Saturday, February 5th we celebrated Justin's mom's birthday (actual birthday is February 8th).  We met in Galesburg at the Packing House and had dinner with his family.  We love getting together with our families!  Justin's cousin made this awesome cake.  It not only looked great, but with the hazelnut cream filling it was delicious too!

Along the bottom of the cake, there was red, blue, and white edible poker chips.  Of course as soon as the first person ate a blue one, Brady, Sydney, and Maddie thought they needed to have one too!  Blake does not like to get dirty at all (he knows how to make his momma happy!) and he was only interested in eating the white ones! 

Right before leaving, Sydney opened her birthday gifts too.  Her birthday is February 10th.  Madison made her a scrapbook of fun pictures.  She sure loves her cousins!

On Sunday, February 13th, we celebrated my girlfriend's birthday!  She turned 11 on the 16th.  I can hardly believe she is that old!  She wasn't much for posing for pictures that day.... 

At Alexis' party, Brady was busy working his salesman skills.  He was taking orders for the B and T Wood Works business.  He better get busy filling orders!   

And I can't help but to share pictures of my precious niece - our lil princess Dani is adorable! 

And we got a great surprise from my grandma.  She makes a blanket for every grandchild.  She finished the one for our Little Guy and gave it to us on Sunday.  So sweet and so special!

And what good is a family blog, without documenting some of our more fun moments!  Here is Miss Madison after being woke up from the drive home on Sunday.  She was not feeling well and was not in a good mood.  And she was NOT interested in us speaking to her at that time!

And sticking with the hair theme, we just cannot decide on a hair cut that suites Blake well.  Right now his hair is growing out.  Many nights he will still rock himself back and forth in the middle of the night while his head is buried in his pillow.  When that happens this is the site we wake up to the next morning!  

And check out those muscles!  He was so proud of his basketball tattoo.  He thought we needed a picture! 

Blizzard 2011

We have really enjoyed the three snow days from school - especially since we didn't lose power during the storm. Below are a few pictures to help us remember what it was like. Justin spent at least 5 hours total moving snow so we could get to the bottom of our drive. He got the tractor stuck once. He thankfully got a path to the road just before the tractor ran out of fuel.

B & T Wood Works

Brady and his friend Tanner are starting a business.  They want to sell wooden trinkets made from anything Justin will let them get their hands on in his shop.  Brady has even come up with a business plan, a graph to show is profit margin, a directory with his and Tanner's cell phone numbers, etc...  They came up with the slogan "Where Wood Matters".  Today is our third snow day and Tanner is coming over so they can work on their inventory.  :o)

Eat Something Cute

My good friend Malloree says "You are what you eat so eat something cute!"  On our snow day yesterday, Madison decided to make cute lollipop cookies.

February 1, 2011 – Goodbye Baby Dallas

I debated on whether or not to even write this entry, but since this is our family journey I know that we always want to remember our sweet nephew.  This morning Dallas Liam Root went to be with the Lord.  We have no answers and do not know why – this side of heaven we will likely never know.  We will miss him so much.