The Little Gym

Ever wondered what it looks like trying to teach 2 year olds gymnastics?!?!?! Watch as poor Alexis tries. :-)

Lunch Time

Our little German baby eating her Corned Beef and Cabbage. :-)

Playing Russian Roulette

A few years ago there was a concert special on TV that caught my attention and after listening to one song I couldn't turn them off. There name is Dispatch and they *were* a garage band that made it, so of course right from the beginning I completely loved them. Thinking back to the bands that I have listened to in garages and parks...imagine if they made it. By this point I was intrigued as to why I was watching them in Madison Square Gardens and why they continued to thank everyone for coming out for their reunion weekend. I did some digging and it turns out the band comprised of three friends who traveled to South Africa to do some volunteer work several years back and as their song states "distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found". Basically after seeing South Africa they couldn't chase their own dreams and dissolved the band, started up a non-profit and work in Africa helping where they can. When they run out of money they join back together and travel to the US performing a few concerts to get more funding for their work. They are coming to Colorado June 3rd, 4th, and 5th (they had to add two extra dates because they sell out so quickly). I bought tickets to this epic event even though my due date is May 21st. So hopefully I will be able to leave new little baby girl at home with Joe and support a truly amazing band, but if not I will give the tickets away and know that my small contribution will help a child around the world.

New Videos...

This one is actually an old video but made me laugh this morning so I thought I would share.

Here's Joe and Miss Wild Thing playing.

And them practicing a flip.

It's cold outside...

Like not even fun cold, -10 right now cold. I know it's winter and some people expect this kind of cold but assure you that I am not one of them. When you look at the fact that it was 75 on Friday and -10 today I feel like I am on Survivor. The news has a constant scroll of the businesses that are closed due to pipes bursting which means the pipe guys are making a lot of money but have to work in crappy conditions. In fact it's so cold baby girl and I haven't left the house in three days, I haven't even gone to the gym...at 5am it's even colder and my car would probably eject me when I tried to start it.

Speaking of baby girl, her new words are "dang" and "amazing"...hmmm I wonder who her Mom is? The word amazing is super cute but the word dang just makes her sound like a hillbilly which means that apparently I sound like a hillbilly too, I guess at least it's not "damn".

Too many pictures...

Austin at The Little Gym. We take her there on Mondays for "gymnastics class", I put that in quotes because it is really just semi-organized chaos.


Austin being a goofball in between some of the bars.


It was entirely too nice to be at work on Friday, my parents happened to agree so we all took the day off and went to the Pueblo Zoo. It was sunny and 75 degrees, not quite January weather but that's why we all love Colorado. In this picture Austin is calling Grandma like you would a dog and patting her legs...like "comon' Grandma catch up". And you can totally tell that my belly is getting bigger everyday and I definitely think it's bigger this time around than with Austin.

Austin could only be bothered by each animal for a couple of minutes before Little Miss Independent had to move on.

Grandpa helped her get up on that camel which totally made her whole day.

Here we are eating Mexican food before the Zoo, Austin's new favorite thing is anything "spicy". I think she sees it as some sort of challenge.

Austin and Grandpa petting the metal bears.

Looking at the big hairy cows.

Me trying to convince Austin to look at Grandma instead of me.

She loves any place without boundaries where she can just run around (preferably without hills so she doesn't fall).

Holding Grandpa's hand to make it over the bridge.

Austin's New Book

My Mom recorded a book for Austin for Christmas and last night was our first time letting her read it. I thought her expressions were too cute to pass up. :-)