Vacation with the Girl's

I had a wonderful trip with my girlfriends, we got home LATE last night from Colorado. Here are a few random pictures of the trip.

Tea with the ladies at the Bolder tea house after a morning/early afternoon of hiking.
Group shot of my girlfriends; Amy is on the left, Karen (this is who we went to visit) is next to Amy, me in the middle, Michelle on my right and Raeann in the red.

A little break from our climb to 10,000 feet. Amy managed to talk the entire hike, then wondered why she was the only one out of breath.

The below picture is from our Super Bowl Party, this was taken right after the Saints scored. Amy brought prizes and gave them away to the pool winner at each quarter. People cheered when they won school pictures of us despite the fact that our fist time meeting was at the party.

Long afternoon/evening at the airport.

Headed back to the Midwest, don't ask how I got to co-pilot the plane because I won't give away my secret. We crossed our fingers for a snow day because we really needed to recover from our vacation and we knew the snow was on the way. No snow day, however LOTS of snow!

Hopefully we can get out as a family this week and do some snowshoeing.

What I've learned...

Marshmallow Fluff at high altitudes is HARD to open and once it's open it immediately starts to expand. I'll fly home from my vacation late tomorrow night. I'll post pictures once I've got some time, it's been a BLAST!

Nick has been Mr. Mom and seems to be doing an amazing job, everyone is having fun and happy!

Baby Eva

Yesterday was a BIG day, our friends Katie and Billy had a baby girl. Here is a picture of Katie I took Sunday night, I'm pretty sure I told her I wouldn't blog it but she is just to stinkin' cute I had to share.

Everything went well and baby Eva is a tiny, little peanut. I'm pretty sure baby Eva is the first baby I've ever seen so close to when she was born (besides Cullen, but I don't remember that). Her head was a little red, her feet a little blue and her skin as soft as silk.

After stopping by the hospital to see the new baby we headed over to a local high school basketball game. It was a pretty big game so Geremu had to bring his drum. He gets really into watching the games and pretending he is part of the band- LOL. His drum doesn't make much noise and he is only allowed to play between quarters. He doesn't always hold his sticks correctly, but he has fun.
We left after half time because Cullen was so tired (he had swimming in the afternoon too). Today when I came home from school I found Cullen sleeping on the couch...

When he woke up I asked him if he was sick, he told me, "Nope, I'm just too pooped to pop."

Geremu Already Misses Me...

I'm taking a little vacation later this week with 2 of my best friends. I wasn't really planning on telling Geremu about it until later this week, Nick told Geremu tonight. Geremu proceeded to follow me around hugging me telling me how much, "I miss you Mom." He doesn't understand the concept of a few days. He cried tonight before bed because he "misses me so much". I think we need to make a calender so he can see when I go and when I come back. I already feel guilty about going and I'm not even gone.

In other news, last night we went to our friends house for the "last supper" (or the last supper with them before they have baby #3). I was greeted at the door by this....

Sophia got a hold of Katie's lip stick and went to town on her face, beautiful. Carson got a hold of a scissors and cut part of one of Sophia's pony tails. The damage was in the back/top of her head and unless the mullets come back in style soon her hair-do is going to take a while to look flawless again.

My Runners

Apparently, shoes are optional but sports bra are necessary...

Interesting, I wonder what they will think of this in 10 years.

My Morning

This is what I woke up to...

Cullen came dancing into our room dressed this way.

And this is what I broke after line-driving a Nerf football at Geremu's legs (he was standing on my bed). Clearly I was trying to teach him that it doesn't hurt when you're hit with a soft ball,

I may have thrown the football too hard. I'm sure it was the first time he has ever kept his eye on the ball. He watched it whiz by him as he jumped out of the way and the ball hit the light. The first thing Geremu said to me was, "accidents happen".

While I was cleaning the broken glass mess up with our little Dyson vacuum I sucked up a toy car from under my bed. I didn't even know it happened until I saw the car land in the vacuums clear window- that little vacuum is AMAZING!

Busy

A new semester started Monday and I got all new students so I've been busy. Cullen has a bad, barking cough but seems fine otherwise- what's that all about? I had a heck of a week last week with Geremu, his behavior seemed to regress (he was willing to do ANYTHING for attention, even if it was negative attention) and I was frustrated beyond belief. This week he is back to good ole Gere but extra polite- I can't figure this out so I continue to just roll with it. Nick continues to be as hot as ever, how does he do it? It must be exhausting looking so good all the time.

I'll write more when I've got something, in the mean time bear with me.