We're still here...

Okay, so it's been a long time since I've blogged. We've been pretty busy exploring Colorado. But, here's what we've been up to for the last 3 months. Maxwell turned one at the end of May. The lucky boy had 3 birthday celebrations and 3 cakes. He actually didn't really like the cake and gave most of it to "dog, dog."
We've been spending most of our Tuesdays hiking and exploring the trails around Boulder. Here we are on the mesa just before a storm rolls in. Max loves to be in the backpack.
We went up to the mountains in June for the Frisco Barbeque Festival. We drove over Loveland Pass and at the top we ran into these crazy guys who were longboarding down Loveland pass. We followed them all the way down, they went up to 40 mph. That's crazy :)
Hiking in Eldorado Canyon which is pretty close to our house. It's a popular place for rock climbers...

Kili is slowly becoming more friendly with Max. Max loves to brush Kili and surprisingly Kili will allow it. Max has also figured out where Kili's treats are kept in the cupboard and likes to open the jar and give one to Kili. The treats have definitely helped the situation! Max's first word was "dog, dog" and he loves to bark at Kili.
Max refuses to be fed now, and he loves to use the spoon. As a result, he ends up wearing most of his food and giving the other half to "dog, dog". Here he is wearing the every fashionable spaghettios.
We spent the 4th of July in Louisville. We biked to the community festival during the day, went to a barbeque in Boulder at night and then we watched the fireworks from our driveway. Louisville's fireworks are set off at the golfcourse which is a block from our house, so we had a prime viewing area from our driveway. It worked out well since the fireworks were well past Max's bedtime. He slept through the whole thing.
We have recently been enjoying our community pool. Max loves playing in the kiddie pool.
In case you haven't heard, we are expecting #2 on November 11th!

Still snowing...

It snowed over a foot today. Mom has to drive less than a mile to work, but she had trouble making it in because Colorado doesn't seem to own snowplows like they do in Minnesota. Mom got a half day off of work because of all of the snow...it was awesome.
I didn't go outside in the snow. I left all of the shoveling to Kili and Daddy. I love sticking my tongue out now, especially when I'm concentrating on something...
Kili loved all of the snow.

St Patricks Day

Daddy went snowboarding in a Kilt for St Patrick's Day. Mommy thought he was crazy, but Daddy thought it was funny. He said he didn't get too cold and he even fell a couple of times. He was lucky it was warm up in the mountains that day. While daddy was snowboarding with Dan and Jess, Mommy and I went shopping at the outlets. We got some great deals!

Mommy and daddy haven't been taking very many pictures of me lately, so they haven't been blogging very much. Mom has been busy with work and Dad has been busy teaching me how to do things like crawl up the stairs. I'm crawling, scooting and will even stand for a few seconds. I've recently decided that I no longer like baby food and will only eat table foods that I can feed myself. That's all for now. Hopefully they will get the camera out and document my life sometime soon so you can see some new pictures :)

Cool dude!

Cool dude!

Enjoying a sunny day at our favorite dogpark.

I had so much fun with my grandma and grandpa who came to visit for the weekend!

Return to blogging

In case you haven't heard, here is what has happened in the last two months...
Mom and Dad went snowboarding at Keystone. They were having a fun day, until...


Mom fell and broke both of her wrists. She had to ride down on the ski patrol sled. She said it was pretty scary because they went down fast and she felt like she was going to fall off.
They were bad breaks, and she had to have surgery on both arms. Here she is drugged up in the ER with all of the pain meds.
There were pins in one of the arms, this is at the doctors office before they pulled the pins out with a pliers. Now, both of her casts are off and she can pick me up again! She was off of work for 6 weeks, but is back at work now. Dad's still home with me during the day, it's so much fun!
Even with all of the drama, we were able to have 2 nice Christmas celebrations. Here I am with Granny in Colorado.
And in Minnesota with Aunt Kelsey and Uncle Scott.
I'm getting to be a big boy. I drink out of a sippy cup and love to read stories! Mom had girls weekend with her high school friends and I was a big flirt all weekend. It was nice for dad to get away for a little bit since he had been taking care of two babies in the house because mom couldn't do anything for herself with two casts on. He went up to the mountains and snowboarded with the boys.
When we were in Minnesota, Grandma gave me some vintage bibs and toys that she had been saving since my mom was a little baby. Here I am in a vintage hat with some vintage keys.
Life is pretty much back to normal now. It sure was an interesting winter. Mom and Dad had a ceremony in the basement to retire mom's snowboard. It is now hanging on the wall. She'll probably ski in the future, but she's going to be way to scared to snowboard again. That's all for now...

POWDER DAY!!

So last night we got 8" of new snow and everything is so white today. Daddy had to go out and shovel the driveway, he says it was easy but it still took him quite a while to get it done.

Kili was so excited about the fresh snow that he did a bunch of laps in the back yard and got so tired that he just sat down in the snow, it looked cold to me but he didn't seem to really mind, must be that coat of his.

Daddy also got really excited as well, after he rested from shoveling that is, he searched high and low throughout the whole house looking for his ski goggles only to find out that I was wearing them since I also want to go play in the snow.

Christmas tree!

We went to the mountains and cut down our Christmas tree this weekend. Don't worry, my parents had permission to cut it down because it was part of a program to thin the forest on the open space. We had to search for a little while to find a good tree...but in the end we got one.

I fell asleep in the Bjorn.

Here's the finished product. It's a little bit like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree, but not bad for having been cut right from the woods. My brother was sitting with his two pretend friends in front of the tree. Can you tell which one is real?