'till next year....

John and I enjoying our last ski day of the season.

Lift shadow

Ok - it was a really slow lift ride - but the sun came out and we were having fun with our shadow.

Skis and blue skies

John took this great shot when we stopped for a quick break at the top of the mountain.

This is me making my way down the slopes!

last ski day of the season

We enjoyed our last ski day of the season on Saturday. Isaac played in the snow at the slopeside daycare, and John and I had a great ski day together. We got a couple inches of fresh powder in the morning, and then the sun came out and warmed things up in the afternoon. I think we did a total of 12 runs (all blue!), which is something of a record for me - I can definitely feel it today.

I think I may have jinxed us in my last post....Isaac has been working on his other 2 2-year molars, so he has had a couple of sleepless nights. Poor guy! Let's hope those last 2 come in quickly!

t.g.i.f.

Happy Friday! It's officially spring - but its a grey day here and doesn't really feel like spring yet. Here's a shot of the mobile in my office that John got me for Christmas last year. It's a beautiful creation of aspen leaves cut out of silk that are arranged on a fine metal wires - such a nice thing to look at when it's so gloomy out my window. I had been admiring it for about a year it in an art shop that we frequent - what a sneaky (and thoughtful!) guy to surprise me with it!

We're headed up to the mountains this weekend for our last ski day of the season - we're really looking forward to it since they have had some great late season snow up there.

In Isaac news - it appears that he now has 2 of his 2-year molars! Who knew! The other day he was laughing with his mouth wide open and it looked like he had more teeth back there - I checked, and sure enough, he has 2 more teeth on the bottom. (Maybe that has been the cause of all his sleepless nights!) The good news is he has been sleeping much better the past couple nights. Last night he actually slept for almost 11 hours straight - I love it!!!

Mmmm Jelly Beans!

The Easter Egg Hunter

Happy Belated Easter

Happy Easter! (A little late) We had a great time last weekend - we flew to Kansas City to celebrate Easter with family. Isaac had his first Easter Egg hunt and his first tast of jelly beans (I now know technicolor drool looks like!) We visited my brother Grant & sister-in-law Amber who are expecting a little girl any day now. (we can't wait to meet this little one!!) On Sunday we also took part in the "big kid" Easter egg hunt with all my cousins. We had a girls vs. boys challenge - and even though we had 1 less on our team, the girls still triumphed!!!

Isaac has a new word this week - "tickle" - and he does it to anybody because he loves the reaction he gets when he does it. It was really cute the first hundred times that he did it! :-) He even tried to tickle the guy next to us in the plane! Luckily the guy was a good sport!

nice kitty

Awwww....

Introducing Jasper!

Ok - I am not really a cat person, nor am I the type of person that just takes random pets that appear on the doorstep into her home....but this white cat has been appearing on our back porch for the past couple weeks. (it turns out that our neighbor, Rhea, has been feeding him for the past couple weeks, but can't take him in because she's allergic) Anyway, so last Saturday this little visitor took up permanent residence on our back porch. It probably didn't help that I was feeding him really yummy things......Isaac and the cat started bonding through the sliding glass door. He would sit there and sing "kitty, kitty, kitty" and the cat would put it's little paw up on the window to try to touch Isaac. When Isaac started bringing his toys over to the door to show them to the cat, I couldn't take it anymore, I was hooked. To my credit - I did put his info on a really great website where you can list lost and found cats (www.tabbytracker.com) So far, no one has claimed him......and he is really cute....

So.... Monday it was a vet visit for the cat - where I found out that he did NOT have one of those locator chips in his skin where they can find the owner, and that he was a healthy, 3-4 year old boy cat. By Tuesday, he had a new name - Jasper, and by Wednesday, he was on his way to Petsmart for a nice bath and nail trimming. He seems to be settling in quite well - and playing nice with our dog Kalli for the most part. Isaac is already in love with him. When he got up this morning, he was looking for the kitty under the bed and was disappointed to find that we had shut Jasper in the laundry room for the night.

On another note - we went down to Denver last night to have dinner with my best friend Kristin's husband, Shawn. He was in town for work and it was really great to catch up, since we haven't seen him since we moved from Dallas. (He hadn't seen Isaac since he was a tiny baby!) We had a great time - but we really missed Kristin - she had to stay back in Pittsburgh because of work - we missed you Kristin!!!

-Erin

my first blog post....

Ok - so here is my first shot at "blogging". Hopefully this won't be too boring for those of you out there who bother to read this. Since we live here in Colorado, and most of our family and friends live elsewhere - I thought this might be a fun way with you all to keep up with our adventures here in lovely Colorado.....I've been thinking about doing this for a while now, but finally got a chance to sit down and do it.

I'll post more tomorrow - and maybe some new pics of the new addition to our household....Jasper the cat. He showed up on our porch last weekend, and Isaac and I have fallen for him. John is slowly warming up too! :-) Now, if we can get Kalli (our dog) to get along with him, all will be well!

More later!
-Erin