So it's been a while since I last posted. We've been busy! Busy visiting Grandma and Grandpa and the Mertens Aunties. Busy with buying a house and packing up our stuff. Busy with life in general. Plus I've tried several times unsuccessfully to post pictures - so hey, it's not my fault.
There was a lot of snow in Chicago.
Notice how in the only two pictures I put up of the two boys together Patrick is crying.
Patrick's birthday dinner! 
Whattia have to say birthday boy?
But all in all it was a great birthday.