Big Baby Bump Banner

Alice 105.9 is a local radio station with a contest to see who can make the best belly banner advertising their radio station. The banner must be painted or drawn on a third trimester pregnant belly. The public helps decide which is best, so go to their website and check out the other entries. Ours is below. The winner gets $2200 worth of baby related supplies.

What Andrew Would Rather Eat

I asked Andrew what he would rather eat: brains or an eyeball. He thought eyeballs would be tastier. He asked his class and was crushed to find out that everyone else would rather eat brains. I know I would. What would you chose. Take the poll on the right.

Week of Birthday Fun!

Mylie's birthday was this past week and she turned 5!! I cannot believe that my baby is 5. She was so excited and wants to be big so bad. We had a great week celebrating with her.

On her actual birthday (Jan 27) we went to Chuck E. Cheese. The kids had a blast. We ate pizza, cotton candy, popsicles, care bear shaped rice krispy treats, opened presents and of course we played a lot. We ended up being there 3 hours!! It was a great day.

On Saturday we had a birthday party for her up in Longmont (Nana's house). With both families and some friends we had about 30 people there. It was very special for Mylie and she felt very loved. We had a fun day of roasting hot dogs, playing bocce ball, playing games, going on a treasure hunt, opening even more presents and eating cake and ice cream. Mylie had a great time with all of her family. She loves them all so much.

Iowa Vacation

Andi and I spent the past couple days in Des Moines for my company’s holiday party. Iowa is charming in a boring kind of way. What else is there to do in a city with nothing to do when you are in a hotel with the one you love … go out to eat. We ate at Skips, The Iowa Beef Steak House, The Waveland Café and B&Bs Deli – all local restaurants with Iowa flare. We had a really fun time and we always look forward to … the restaurants.

Broken Hand

Carmelo Anthony (Denver Nuggets' star basket ball dribbler) is not the only one with a broken hand. Andrew tripped while racing me to the front door on Friday night and fractured his pinky metacarpal near the carpal joint. This is commonly known as the "boxer's break". He wears a splint for about a week till the swelling goes down enough for the orthopedist to cast him up.

Trip to the Zoo

Grandma gave our family a year pass to the Zoo for Christmas!! On New Years Day we were able to use it for the first time. We had a great day together as a family. We are excited to be able to go as often as we want. Thanks Grandma!

Cupcakes and Crystals

The last couple of weeks we have been working on all sorts of projects that Andrew and Mylie got for Christmas. Andrew got a crystal making kit and Mylie got a cupcake baking kit. Daddy help Andrew make the crystals. It was a quite envoled project and Andrew just thought it was the coolest thing ever. He had a fun time and was especially excited that it came with a set of gogles. He felt very offical. It has been fun to watch the crystals grow. I was just impressed that it actually worked!!


I got the better half of the deal. I helped Mylie bake her very own cupcakes. She did everything by herself (except for the clean up). She made very sure that I knew it was HER project. I thought she did a great job. With the help of Andrew she frosted them and she finished them off with of course sprinkles!! Maybe we have the next Martha on our hands. She was very proud of the final outcome. Yummy!!