Giving Thanks

During this holiday we are reminded how truly blessed we are to have such great family around us. Both Steve's family and mine are so important to us...




This year we went down to Florida to spend Thanksgiving with my family. (In case you were wondering...yes, 4 hours on a plane with a 14.5 month old is a true test of patience!) We had a great time visiting with family, including Colby's great-grandmother, and even caught up with a couple friends that live down there. Here's a few pics from our trip...

Sophie trying to teach Colby how to share...

Colby with his cousins Jamie and Hunter.

Fun with daddy at the park.

Spontaneity

Since Steve has been working really hard finishing up his audits for the year and is about to get really busy until the end of the year with his new Supervisor position, we decided at the last minute to head up to Vail over the weekend.

It was so great to get away and a perfect time of year to be in the mountains. Chilly, but not too cold, and since the slopes (the Vail ones at least) haven't opened yet it was empty and very cheap. Colby loved walking around the village but insisted on being the leader...so we just followed him around most of the time! 14 months is such a fun age!

At dinner Saturday night, Colby wanted one of my french fries and out of the blue signed "please". We thought it was a fluke at first, but he did it a ton that night and has been consistently signing it since. It really amazed us, because we had tried in vain to teach him signs since he was 6 months old and had given up about a month ago. So, I guess he was just storing it away in his mind for whenever he was ready to do it! We're so proud of him. :)

Vail was so beautiful and we would have had soooo many great pictures to share, except that the camera was sitting at home on the kitchen counter. So, since I can't have a post without some kind of picture, here's just a recent one of Colby.

Dinger!

He's not just any purple dinosaur, he's Dinger the Colorado Rockies mascot! Yes they got swept in the World Series, and yes we weren't able to use our Game 5 tickets (thus crushing Steve's life-long dream to see his team at a World Series game)...but there's always next year. :)

Colby had fun Trick or Treating with his cousins...that is, he had fun running up and down the street while his cousins got candy!

Happy Halloween!!

'Tis the Season!

Here's why I love Colorado...yesterday was a high of 80 degrees and this morning we woke up to this:

And. believe it or not, the snow will be gone tomorrow and it'll be in the 70s by Tuesday or Wednesday. Gotta love it!

...But Keep The Old...

It's fall break out here for the high schools, so since I had a week off nannying Colby and I decided to go visit my friend Sheryl in Washington for a few days.

Sheryl and I were roommates in college and have remained close since...despite living thousands of miles apart. Her son Jackson is 6 months older than Colby and is amazingly advanced. (He walked at 9 months, and now at 1.5 can talk in sentences and eats off real plates...and doesn't break them!) Jackson is going to have a little brother, Rhett, next month...so as you can imagine we did a lot of chilling at home, which was exactly what I was looking for.

Happy Birthday!

Despite what everyone told us, Torreys is still our first baby. Today is her 3rd birthday and she got a present (new femur bone) and a cupcake (the only people food she gets...well, besides what Colby gives her now). Couldn't resist a few pics of her growing up. Although she's not perfect, she's a great dog and is wonderful with Colby.

Happy birthday Torreys!!!

Can we play now??

I'm not sure who's more terrified...

Ahh - my arm, my arm!! ;)

Daddy Duty...

So this morning Steve got up with Colby and let me sleep in a little (aww, so sweet). While I was laying in bed I heard some screaming, but didn't think too much of it (little tantrums aren't abnormal these days). When I got up, Steve told me what happened...apparently Colby was digging around in the wicker chest and got his head and arms stuck inside! Daddy, of course, decided he had time to capture the moment on film before rescuing our baby. The picture doesn't really do it justice b/c you can't hear the screams that go along with it, but Steve was afraid of the repercussions of having it on video...


And a side note: Thanks to all who prayed for Patty...her mastectomy went as well as expected and her pathology report came back clear - no chemo or radiation needed!!