Welcome to the world Ansley Elizabeth!!

Last night our dear friends Kristin & Shawn welcomed their precious little girl into the world. She arrived 1 day before her due date! Last night Shawn emailed me a photo and Isaac was on my lap when I opened the email. He got very excited about the "Beee" (as he calls babies) and started saying it over and over. He was waving at the picture and even got up on my desk to kiss the picture on my computer screen. It was so cute that I almost started crying....then again, maybe it's just the hormones!

In other baby news - we had our checkup at the OB today - tomorrow is 19 weeks into my preganancy. The baby's heartrate was good and my blood pressure was good, so it was a very uneventful visit - which is great at this point. Right now they have me set to deliver on December 19 with a scheduled c-section - of course that can change, but that is the plan for now. If it works out that way - we will be able to come home from the hospital just in time for Christmas. Next week we have an ultrasound scheduled, so I will have new pics of our little one!

Happy Anniversary

Yesterday was our 6th wedding anniversary. Happy Anniversary John! I can't believe that 6 years have gone by. Last night we were talking about our wedding day and how we never could have imagined that six years later we would be here in lovely Colorado with a beautiful son and another baby on the way. Although we have had our share of struggles, the past 6 years are full of joy and happiness and learning our way through life together. Here's to 6 years and many many more!

Mmmm....chicken nuggets!

Last Friday night we went to my cousin Tyler's wedding, and my cousin Cindy's Mom - aunt Melverna - was kind enough to offer to babysit Isaac since she was also babysitting their two boys, Trey & Brody. We brought over chicken nuggets and fries for the big boys and they were in heaven - here they are on Trey's picnic table having their dinner and watching a movie. It cracks me up how Isaac has his french fry in one hand and his chicken nugget in the other!

My boys

Little Helper

Rest in Peace Randy Pausch

I usually post about the happenings in our family, but in a way - this is about our family because this video that I watched a few months ago really had an impact on me.

Randy Pausch was a Carnegie Melon professor, husband, and father of 3 who died yesterday of cancer at the age of 47. He gave his last lecture on September 18, 2007which has inspired millions of people and also been turned into a best-selling book. Even though the lecture was given in a college campus setting, he notes that the lecture was written for his 3 young kids who would grow up without a father. Now, the lecture is over an hour long, but if you take the time to listen to it, I promise that you will be touched and inspired - but one thing that i cannot promise is that you will have dry eyes. It sure puts our lives in perspective - so if you need a little of that today, go to this link. I hope it works!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo


If you don't have an hour to watch this - Oprah had Randy do a condensed version that you can watch here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8577255250907450469

Back to normal (whatever that is).....

Our household is back to some sort of normalcy after a busy couple of weeks. Isaac is back from his trip to Kansas and we are happy that our house isn't so quiet anymore. We took Isaac for his 2 year check up today and he seems to be a mostly healthy little boy. He is in the 90 percentile for height and weight (which means he's big - he's 36" tall!) and the 95 percentile for head circumference (I guess he inherited his daddy's big head!). The doctor wants him to improve his communication skills in the next couple months, so I guess we've got some things to work on. Only 1 shot today and Isaac was a brave boy - no tears! He just said "owww" really loud. What a tough guy!

Weekend in the mountains

This weekend John and I escaped the 100 degree weather in Denver for the mountains. I actually needed a jacket in the evenings! Even though we were missing our little boy, we had a great time eating at restaurants without kids menus and taking a 16 mile bike ride on Saturday from Frisco to Breckenridge. Here are a couple photos of us along the trail and stopped in Breckenridge to cool our feet in the river.

Tendrils out my window.......

I'm not sure what kind of plant this is exactly, but I planted it in my hanging baskets on our porch this year and they grew in nicely. They look great when there is a nice soft breeze (not the high winds that we usually have around here!)

I miss you already!!

Today Isaac left for Clifton to spend a week with his grandparents. Although it is a work day and I don't usually have him around anyway, I am missing him just a little bit. This is the time of day that I usually pick him up from daycare and I don't really know what I am going to do with myself! Wow, is this what it was like before kids? John and I are going to spend a relaxing weekend in the mountains. We can't wait to go to a restaurant that doesn't have a kids menu!

Cousins

Last week Isaac got to visit his cousins Trey and Kaya. They are the kids of my cousins Cindy & Pam, so I'm not sure what sort of cousins that makes our kids?? (2nd, 3rd) Anyway, they were all born within 3 months so it's fun to watch them grow up and play together!

Happy 2nd Birthday Isaac!

Happy Birthday to you Isaac! Today you are two years old and I can't believe how fast the past two years have gone by! You have grown from a little baby (ok, maybe not so little) into a little boy. Every day we learn something new together and I can honestly say that the past two years since you joined our family have been the most rewarding and sometimes the hardest two years of my life - I wouldn't take them back for anything! I can't wait to see what changes the next year brings for you and I'm just so grateful that I get to be your "Ma". Happy birthday little guy!

(Oh, and for those who were wondering, yes, I did make the cake, and yes, it did take forever!:-)

Happy Birthday to Me!

Here is a pic of the lovely flowers that my friend Christine sent me today. What a thoughtful gal! All in all it was a great day. (other than that 2 hour conference call for work.....) Tonight we went out for mexican food and Isaac was an angel (it's sort of hit or miss right now on whether he will behave at the restaurant). Not bad for my 29th birthday! Ha! (ok, if you know that I was born on 7-7-77, you can do the math......)

Happy (belated) 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July everyone! Hope your holiday was relaxing! We tried to have Isaac pose for a "patriotic" photo, but as you can see, he wasn't too excited about it. He was excited, however, when we took him to WaterWorld yesterday afternoon. It's a water park not to far from our house. They have some really great areas for little ones where they can go down toddler-sized slides and such. We were there for about 3 hours and had a great time. What a treat to have a holiday on a Friday and still the rest of the weekend to relax!