Time to catch up?

Goodness gracious it has been a long time since we have properly updated and maintained our blog.  We have been traveling as a family quite a lot, and Jake has had additional travel for work.  We should all be home, and hopefully healthy, for the next few weeks.  Jake and I have promised each other, and you, our faithful readers, that we will catch you up on all the wonderful adventures we've had.  So, the next several blogs are going to be a bit of a time warp- they'll be postmarked as they are written, but we'll include the event dates at the top... ready?  Here we go!