Southern Folks take on the Snow!

A few of my favorite pictures from our weekend playing in the snow!

We spent a few amazing days in a gorgeous winter wonderland surrounded by our wonderful family!!!!

What's New

I've had several people mention lately that we haven't had any family updates. :) Man has it been a busy summer.

Over the last few months we have traveled all over visiting family
Learned that Alex loves roller coasters as much as his mama
Discovered that sick or not he's going to be up at 6 am, vacation be damned, and all round just really had a wonderful time.

Hope everyone elses summer is turning out as enjoyable as ours!

In Memory

Isn't ironic how hard fate works to keep us humble? I've been so geared up for vacation, some mental break time, and some good time spent without distractions with my family. We headed off to visit my dad and two days into our 10 day vacation we got a phone call that my grandfather had passed away. Although several family members told me to stay and enjoy our vacation, it only took a few minutes running through a 10-10-10 analysis (an awesome new book by Suzy Welch) to realize that flying home was the very best decision for me. So Eric rearranged our travel plans and today we head off for my hometown to bid my grandfather a final goodbye.

I'm not usually very good with dealing with death, but surprisingly my two year old put it in the best possible perspective for me. When told that Papaw was gone he said, "then he's not sick anymore?" and in just a few little words helped me to let go of the sadness that was hanging over me. We're heading home to celebrate a wonderful man's life and I'm determined to remember the grandfather of my childhood who teased and made me laugh rather than the shadow he became as a lifetime of smoking took its toll.

Papaw, you will be missed, but always remembered.

We love you always!

My first vacation without the kiddo

So far everything is going okay. I haven't gotten to talk to Alex much at all since we have been here and that has been particularly hard.  I'm such a control freak (and perfectly okay with that) that it has been very frustrating not being on a good schedule and talking to him daily. Other than a rough first night, for both him and me, everything does seem to be going well though.

Yesterday I spent sightseeing around Vancouver (pics to come soon) and saw the beautiful Stanley Park, a few national landmarks, some local shopping and even managed to stumble across a tent sale, which was fun even though I left empty handed. In the afternoon I treated myself to an hour and a half long high tea at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, which was just amazing. If we are ever blessed with a daughter I think that will be the perfect mom and daughter birthday ritual.

Today Eric is finishing up classes in the morning and then we will sight see together this afternoon. We plan to hit up the suspension bridge and a few other gorgeous photo opps.  I'm still working on bettering my photography since I can't ever seem to take the shot I see, but even I'm seeing small improvements.

Tomorrow it's back to Seattle and Eric is off home while I spend one more day here with family and friends. I'll fly back Monday and join life as we know it then.

We are still trying to sell our house and buy a new one, but over the last few days that too has gone south since the seller of the house we love is a non negotiating little pinhead who won't negotiate at all and refuses to lower his house to the value it appraises for.  Since that is no longer assured watch the open houses we are having this weekend bring in an offer for ours. LOL

Ok off to play in Vancouver. 

Our Colorado Vacation

Make a Smilebox photobook

Who is George Washington?

A Post from Alex's Point of View:

Today Mom, Dad, Grampy, Auntie V, and Uncles Bryan and Jason (and his girlfriend) went to some old guys house to look around. Mom called him President George Washington but I have never heard of him. He must have been a pretty cool guy though ‘cause he has a huge place.

We walked around for a really long time but I was in this cool strappy thing my Daddy has and I was pretty content. Mom even got me a pair of shades for the occasion, so I could keep my eyes open and check everything out.

After all that walking we went to eat at Red Lobster where I got to sit in a high chair for the very first time. I loved that, I could reach and grab menus and all kinds of things off the table.

Now we are home and I am going to kick back and enjoy my new exercauser that Grampy got me.

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