Bullet point update

Here's an update in bullet point form. I'll try to pick up where the last bullet point post stopped.

• Zach's trial was CrAzY!! He was gone for three weeks before he came home for a weekend. He put in some super long days out there. On October 22nd I got a call from him. He said, "Trial's over, I'm coming home!" The judge stopped the trial because an expert for the other side was caught lying. Totally crazy. Zach was home for two days and signed up for another trial. InSaNe!!
  
• Carter turned 5 in October. Zach made it home just in time for his Birthday party. It was Carter's first friend party and he had a blast. (Kind of funny, the big threat at our house is, "You're not invited to my birthday party!" The boys say it to each other whenever they're mad or upset about something. It always makes whoever was un-invited upset and they come and ask me to make sure they can still come. My response has become, "Brothers are always invited")
• We stayed here in Chicago for Thanksgiving. We got together with a few other families and had a splendid time.
• We stayed here for Christmas too. Zach had to work every day up until Christmas. Boo! On Christmas Eve we went over to some friends but Christmas day we stayed home in our pajamas all day. It was nice. One thing I'll do different next year is get myself a book for Christmas so I have something relaxing to do while the boys play with their electronics. (Zach got a play station for Christmas and the boys got games for it too so there was a lot of play station time Christmas day)
• We had a party at our place for New Years. It was a lot of fun. The boys loved that they got to stay up so late.
  
• January 4th Zach left for trial in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was gone for two weeks before he got to come home for a weekend. This trial hasn't been as crazy as the last one. He's been able to come home for a lot of weekends. It's seemed really long though. I'm sure the fact that it's right on the tail of the last trial hasn't helped. Every time Zach comes home the boys are sad to learn that he has to go back again. Last weekend Zach was basically here for a day. He got in late Friday night, on Saturday we went to the Auto Show, and Sunday morning Zach was headed back to the airport.
• Austin turned 3 at the end of January. We found out Zach would be home a weekend sooner than we'd expected so we quickly threw together a birthday party so he could be here. I made super capes and masks for the kids. It turned out really cute.
  
• ZACH IS COMING HOME FROM TRIAL TODAY. He doesn't have to go back to trial but he does have to go to DC for some training next week but that's just for a few days.
• We're going on vacation. The first two weeks of March will be spent in Utah with our families. We're super excited to have Zach all to ourselves and to see our families.

I think that's it. I'm going to make my next post a picture post. I'll try to get that up before we leave.