We arrived in Albert Lea a week and a half ago and things are finally starting to settle down. I have had two days with Dr. Skorin and I have enjoyed every minute of it. It's been pretty cold up here so we haven't done much outdoors, but our home is warm and cozy. We were able to arrange a pre-school for Timo and we are excited for him to have some more friends to play with. At work I have been very busy, working with a doctor that sees about 40 patients a day. (I am used to a max of around 16 or so!) Petronella is working on finishing the Book of Mormon in a short time, in honor of President Hinckley.
I'm excited that I was able to make contact with some old friends from my mission. They are all from my last area in Tonsuya. I hope they get a chance to see this blog!

Well, we got a little crazy on Christmas day so I thought I would share it with everyone.

So I haven't added anything to this blog for quite some time, and actually very few people knew about it. So its time to come out of obscurity and start sharing our family. Well, and we are in the middle of external rotations right now so we are moving every 3 months to a new home. In February we will be moving to Albert Lea clinic in Minnesota, then afterwards we will hopefully have an idea of where we will end up.
Here are some pictures of our family that I would like to share. They begin about Thanksgiving time and end about Christmas time.

We have a new member in our family. Matthew Aimo Blankenbehler was born March 19, 2005 and he has brough lots of joy into the lives of his parents. Right now we are working on teaching him sitting, rolling over, sleeping schedules; and daddy tries to slip him some icecream every now and then until mommy catches him. Daddy had him doing back flips when he was 2 weeks old and mommy didn't like that very much either. He makes everyone happy that holds him.