Gage

Well as most of you know, Gage was born on December 8th at 1:03 in the morning weighing 6 lbs 10 oz. He was in the nicu for about a week because his lungs were underdevelped. He came home on the 14th on oxygen and he will continue to be on oxygen for about 2 more weeks or until the doctor says so. He's been doing great so far except that he likes to pull out his canula and eat it when hes hungry. Although he has plenty of clothes, he's still not able to fit into most of them, even the newborn size seems to be too big.Its been fun having him home and James seems to be a little bit jealous.

A few pictures from Vegas.

This was the best dessert ever! We had this at the "Top of the World" Restaraunt in the Stratosphere. The restaraunt does a complete 360 degree turn in 2 hours. And for once I didn't get motion sick.

Guitar Hero!

FINALLY!

We finally developed our film from our underwater camera from Key West. Here are some pictures from our snorkeling adventure.

There were 15 sting rays hanging around us. They freaked me out! They were huge!

Animal Blog???

Hey what is with all the animals? Aren't they fun! I really enjoyed having animals when each of you were small. It gave a very physical meaning to being in the "dog house." I can remember most of you hanging out in the dog house with Gyspie. James took off again the other day. I think next time we are just going to shut the door and let him stay outside in the cold for a while.

Hey Emily, it looks like an old fort in the background. What is it, and what happened there?

Rick & Kassie, are you still on base?

Love,

Dad

New Babies!

So I've finally found a job to provide for Rick and I while he's in school. I'm now working at Colorado Avenue Veterinary Hospital as a Technician...I help with surgeries, draw blood, front desk work, fill prescriptions and basically anything else they need me to.
It didn't take me long to find these two either and bring them home....they are from the same litter, a boy (the one with the orange ears) and a girl. they came in with their mom from the humane society to be fixed and I couldn't leave without them.
The boy kitty doesn't have a name yet but the girl's name is Jane. Very sweet little kittens that we are fostering for a few days. Some good friends of ours will take over ownership next week.

Big D. and Willis

We adopted two dogs from the pound. =) Big D. is a German Shepard who is 3 years old and Willis is a Rottweiler/Sharpei Mix who is 3 months old.

Cruise Pictures!

Eastern Caribbean Cruise

We finally surfaced from our 8 day exotic vacation. The kids were amazed at how big a cruise ship really is, but found, mom and dad are still REALLY boring. Monica, Jaxon and Gunnar made lots of new friends and had a great time eating ice-cream 24 hours a day! (Okay, I indulged a little too much myself!) Sadly, it is incrediby hard to adjust myself back to work, homework, and everything else that seems to be going on - but, sleeping 18 hours a day seemed to make things managable (at least until the extra sleep has worn off!!). Baili was gracious enough to handle the two babies (yes, please note, usually the babies are the ones that get included in EVERYTHING, in fact, usually everything cool - yes, Shelly, I am talking about you!) So, please remind Jerrick and Ryker when they are older and are mad that they didn't get to go - there time will come! At least we hope - maybe we'll be broke and they'll never go anywhere!! Here are some fun pictures!

Monterey

Just a couple of pictures from our Monterey/ San Francisco trip. =)

Ah ha!

Everybody looks great! I'm sorry I couldn't be there.
Just to let everyone know we are moving on September 15th.
The address is 211 N 7th St Apt. B.
We'll get pictures as soon as we can...although it won't be as swanky as Melissa's new place *wink*
LOVE!
kass

ATTITUDE!

Family Pictures

Although a death is certainly nothing to celebrate - it was wonderful to get together with everyone (except Kassie - we missed you!). We took some family pictures and thought everyone would like to see some of them! If you want me to e-mail you them, just let me know!

Emily :)

Snorkeling-Key West

The dolphins were watching us as much as we were watching them.

We have pictures from snorkeling that we took with our under water camera but of course that has sat on our counter for over a month. I have HUGE sting rays to show you.

Empire State Building

View from the Top!
I was being Darryl's tour guide.

cHiCaGo

I was pretending to be part of the statue-art work. =)
When we were in Chicago we spent a day at Navy Pier. It was a lot of fun!

And again it will only let me upload 2 pictures. =(

Disclaimer: Mom do NOT look at pictures below.

Here are a few pictures of us at the Sunset Pier is Key West. For some reason the "blog" will only let me do 2 pictures at a time or else it gives me errors. So...two it is! Have a great weekend and I will add more when I have the time.

Our Trip(s)

We finally were able to get a new camera cord (since we lost ours) so I can start sharing our pictures! Yay! Here are a few of when we swam with Dolphins in Key West. It was so much fun!

Congrats on your new house Melissa! Your place looks really nice, Rick and I are both rather envious....With all that new room you have we might have to come and visit. :D

One more thing

I'm sure dad will find this amusing. We have surround sound in our entire house and in each room there is a volume knob and speakers to adjust accordingly. There are two different "docking" sytems. One upstairs and one downs stairs. I have a feeling Dad and Darryl will have fun playing with this one.

Update on House

We will officially be moving in on Friday at the latest. We are hoping to get our keys on Tuesday. Yay! Anyone wanna come and help us move? (I didn't think so...) ;) This house is a LOT different than our last. We are still keeping our other house and we plan on renting it out.

This house has 3,200 square feet. Downstairs there is large entry room (I don't know what else to call it) dining room, den, living room and kitchen. Upstairs we have a study, bonus room- which is about the size of mom and dads front room) and 4 bedrooms. There are 2.25 baths. I say .25 because the bathroom downstairs just has a toilet and sink. We will have plenty of room for people to come and visit now. So, you better start buying your plane tickets!

New Digs

Wow! Your new place looks great. What does the outside look like? Is it similar to your other place?

Love,

Dad

NEW HOUSE PICTURES

VIEW FROM UPSTAIRS BALCONY
VIEW FROM STUDY. BONUS ROOM TO THE RIGHT

My New Casa!

VIEW FROM FRONT DOOR
KITCHEN

MASTER BATH

Golfing

I love my new driver! Pam and I have been golfing with Mike and his son Chris. We have golfed at Logan River, Preston and the last time at Logan River. My last three scores golfing went like this 38 (my best ever), 42, and the last was a 51 when I golfed with Dan (Hey, everyone is entitled to a bad score). Dan scored a 50, my score was 51 and it was the first time Dan has beating me. He was so proud ;-)

Pam's scores have been going down. She is scoring in the lower 50s.

Well got to run,

Dad

July 24 Trail Ride to Lake Town

This morning Pam, Michelle and I loaded up and went for a 4 wheeler ride. Baili wanted to sleep in so she stayed home. We started at Hardware Ranch and went to Lake Town. It was fun coming down into Round Valley and seeing Bear Lake. We had lunch at the store (See pictures). We ventured onto a few more trails and found that we could spend a couple of days exploring the back country.

Dan's Rock Crawler

Here are a couple pictures of Dan's rock crawler. He has made quite a bit of progress since these pictures.