The Deters: Winter Update

It has been a LOOONG time since I last posted anything. I wish I could say it was because were so busy with lots of exciting events, but not quite the case. While there have been some exciting events that have happened with family and friends, not much new with the three of us.

Over the past few months we have:

Welcomed the birth of a new niece and nephew. Payton McKenzie Knutson (Mike and Nikki and big sister Paige) was born November 14th, 2012. She was born at 25 weeks gestation and has been at the Children's Hospital in Minneapolis since then. She is has overcome so much in her life and is quite the little fighter. Here is a like to her CaringBridge site http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/paytonknutson2012. Tyler John Knutson (Matt and Katie and big sister Hailey and big brother Jordan was born 1/18/13 (just a day away from sharing a birthday with his Uncle Joe!). We are so excited to have new babies to spoil :)
Two of our friends (separately) had over the past three months. Joe and I realized that in our wedding party, there were three people who eventually had twins. What are the chances??
Jake has continued to amaze us with all that he has learned at school. He is a little sponge. Just today, he was counting his Lego creations, and wrote out a "number chart" to show me that he had constructed (his words) 10 different ones.
We have been watching empty lots around us fill up with new houses. We will have new neighbors directly across the street from us in a few weeks/months.
Jake started skating lessons and like them, for the most part. There was one week of tears and one week of sore feet, but lots of practice at getting up from falling down. He told his Grandma Bien that he is really good at falling now-it doesn't hurt to do so any more.
We have heard a lot of friends announce their pregnancies, whether it be their first or second, while we are still patiently waiting for our turn.
We decided to make the HUGE ($$ and emotional) decision to begin IVF. We are going to begin this new journey with my May cycle, with a hopeful egg retrieval and egg transfer at the end of June. I plan on writing more as we go through this new journey of IVF.

Until then...a few pictures from this winter!