To my wonderful husband…

Colleen | October 31, 2007 | Family, Nerd | 380 words and 1,171 views | 1 comment

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My 28th Birthday was so special, and you did a great job planning everything. Matt took me out to the Melting Pot where 3 red roses were on the table waiting for me. He got a babysitter for Claire (Grandma, of course). He made a cd of songs “about us” which included his own personal commentary between each music selection. But the best part- (Matt don’t edit this out) he sang to me- Thank You For Loving Me. Are you asking yourself right now- isn’t that a Bon Jovi song? Um, yes it is. And Matt sings it perfectly. You’re the best husband ever.

By the way- I am waiting to post pics of Claire (there are so many). My computer guy reloaded my computer last week and didn’t put back all my programs. I really need to talk to his boss about that! So be patient- Claire pics coming soon.
Co enjoying her ghoul-tini. The waiter kept telling us - it has a ghoulish surprise… it has a ghoulish surprise. So we caved. It was pretty ghoud, (get it? good.)While Co enjoyed the drinks… Matt enjoyed the meat. What’s the deal about paying a ton of money to cook your own dinner? Oh well, it was yummy!Best birthday ever. Best husband ever. The end.

Rocktober continues!

Matt | October 16, 2007 | Misc | 1187 words and 1,563 views | no comments

Their run is just unbelievable. I’m coordinating my computers to pound the Rockies website until I get tickets to the World Series. I can’t miss this. It’s too good to be true.

(Just FYI, I am copying the rest of this from: ESPN)

DENVER — This didn’t just happen. Did it?

That couldn’t have been Coors Field, shaking so hard Monday night that it must have knocked all the snow off the nearest Rocky Mountain tops.

That couldn’t have been the Colorado Rockies, dancing beneath the fireworks, pulling on those National League Champions T-shirts, the only National League team still standing in the second week of October.

This can’t be the Rockies — the Rockies — heading for their first World Series. Can it?

If you watch enough baseball games and follow enough pennant races, you come to think after a while that you have a grasp of what’s possible and what isn’t. And let’s be candid here:

This isn’t possible.

But on another magical autumn evening a mile above sea level, the impossible turned possible. The Colorado Rockies are going to the World Series. Just don’t ask how.

“I’ll be honest,” said shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, after the 6-4 win over Arizona that sealed a four-game sweep and propelled these Rockies to their first World Series. “We haven’t sat back once and said, ‘How’d this happen?’ We’re just enjoying it.”

And you know what? It’s better that way. It’s safer that way. It’s more fun that way. Because there are no good answers. So just don’t ask.

Don’t ask how a team on life support can suddenly start winning and winning and winning some more — until it looks up a month later, amidst the dripping Domaine St. Michelle, to find it has just won 21 of its last 22 games.

Don’t ask how a team that was a mere four games over .500 on Sept. 15 could make it here from where this team came from.

From nine games under .500 (18-27) in May.

From six games out in the wild-card race in September.

From 4½ games back in that wild-card race with only nine games to play.

Matt Holliday’s three-run homer capped off a six-run fourth inning for the Rockies in their NLCS-clinching win over the Diamondbacks.

From two games behind with two games to play, and having to watch that Padres team they were trying to catch get within one strike of clinching.

From two runs behind in the 13th inning of the 163rd game of the year, a game they never should have had a chance to play in the first place.

Has any team ever overcome all of that to play in a World Series? Not a chance.

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15 weeks old… oh my!

Colleen | October 15, 2007 | Claire, Family | 1922 words and 1,464 views | no comments

Claire is the joy of our lives. She lights up the room with her giggles and grunts. She amazes us with her rolling over, and blowing bubbles. She is teaching us many new things everyday. One minute we think we have her on a schedule, next thing you know she is switching it up again. She is still sleeping through the night, but sometimes she doesn’t nap the WHOLE day. Not a big deal? Um no… she just gets a little slap happy about 7 pm. She is doing great with every new thing we challenge her with. She has started lifting her hips up and using her toes to push and scoot across the floor on her tummy. We put her in the church nursery for the first time Sunday, and she did great- apparently she just talked and cooed at all the nursery workers. She still loves going in her snuggli for walks around the park but now we have to put hats on to keep her warm in the evening. She doesn’t fit in her swaddling blanket anymore- so she sleeps without it. But now she rolls to her tummy almost immediately when we put her in her crib which makes me a little nervous but that’s how she sleeps most comfortable! She went with Matt to Daddy BootCamp last Saturday, as a “veteran” and the rookie (expecting) dads took turns changing diapers, holding the babies and getting advice from the other dads like Matt. Claire also razzle dazzled the other veteran dads by rolling over and being a good baby. She also took her first solo bath in the big bath tub. She likes watching the water fill up the tub, and watching the bright colored ducks float around. I help her practice her back floats and show her how to blow bubbles. She is getting so big and turning in to a beautiful little girl. Now if only we could find a Halloween costume for her?!

Sometimes Claire has the funniest expressions on her face. Here she is playing in her Bumbo. She likes this especially if I am throwing Sooner’s toy for her so she can have a good view and watch the action.Daddy and Claire sometimes read stories before bed. This book is called That’s Not My Puppy and it’s a touch and feel book. She seems to like it!Petting puppy’s ears.Eating her giraffe toy- she slobbers on everything now!Sitting in her bumbo, Claire discovered her toes one day. She tried so hard to figure out how to get them in her mouth.It’s easy to only show you the nice cute pics of Claire. But here’s a real pic of her. She is so mad because she wants to get those toes in her mouth and they just won’t reach from this angle. AAAHHHH!Just being serious!With Aunt Jenn after the Washburn game (which they won!) Claire’s new thing is she does NOT like to held like a baby. She wants to be upright and see everything.Talking and cheering for Uncle Jeff.All 4 Washburn girl’s cheering for #65 after the game.After the game, Jeff invited us to a bbq for his Physics club. Claire is getting real good at bringing her hands to her face and sucking on her fingers.Claire and Jeff are real buds, they always cuddle at night. Compare the size of Jeff’s fingers to lil Claire’s hands.Ok, this may look like a lil baby cage, but this is the crib that the hotel gives us for Claire. She doesn’t seem to mind at all.We have been trying out hats for Claire, now that it is getting colder at night. Some that were big 3 months ago are already too small!Here is Claire happy…Usually I only post the nicely posed, cutie pics of Claire. You must know, for every 1 good pic I post I have about 8 where she is moving or squirming. This would be one of those.Talking to Mommy…We thought we would try on the boots again thinking that maybe Claire could be a cowgirl for Halloween. We are still undecided.Another hat for our adventures around the park after dinner one night.After she watched the OU game Saturday (notice cheerleading uniform???) Claire passed out with her paci half out of her mouth.Watching the bath water fill up the tub!Doing the back float. She just needs to relax so her legs will go down in the water.Playing with the duckies.Just drying off after the long swim in the bathtub.

C is for Cute Claire

Colleen | October 2, 2007 | Claire, Family | 1801 words and 1,211 views | no comments

Not too much new this last week. Claire has started to laugh a little bit- it’s the cutest thing. She laughed at Matt and Sooner, and once when I was kissing the bottoms of her feet (she must be ticklish). It’s the craziest thing, and we try to do exactly the same thing again to make her repeat her little laugh, but she won’t do it. It’s only when she feels like it. But she is always smiling and cooing, and cooing mixed with drool sounds like “gurgle gurgle”. Also, she really likes the neon tag on her carseat, which is from the airport gate checkin (we flew to Kansas City last weekend). Matt tried to take it off, but I wouldn’t let him- she loves to stare at the bright colors and she even talks and smiles at it. I guess this goes along with- someday she is going to play with the boxes her toys come in and not the expensive toys. Right? We also went for a 4 mile hike on Saturday with Jennifer and Suri. Matt didn’t go because he was at the OU-CU game… don’t ask. But us girls sure had fun. Enjoy the pics. This weekend we are off to Topeka again.

Claire loves to try to put her whole hand in her mouth. Sometimes she does both fists… but they just don’t fit. There is always a lot of drool involved in this process.Here’s Claire, just hanging out in her crib. She is getting pretty good at sitting up by herself, but she still needs a little help from her bunny pillow (thanks Uncle Gugs).Playing with Aunt Jenn is Claire’s fave.Sometimes playing with Aunt Jenn makes Claire tired. She just passes out!Very tired Claire.The beginning of the hike. What a great day to be out in nature.Claire seems to really enjoy the bouncing of being carried in her snuggli. She’s smiling at Aunt Jenn!Jenn and her dog Suri enjoyed the hike too. Look at all the aspen trees!Mommy and Claire… hiking buddies.All the bouncing put Claire to sleep. You would think that she would get woken up, but the movement was what kept her asleep, and sometimes when I stopped she would wake up! And she really loved to chew on the strap, she even fell asleep with it in her mouth. I am sure that getting bounced around was what it felt like in my tummy all those months.It’s fun to watch my garden grow this summer. To think that I was only 4 days away from giving birth when I first planted everything, and during the last 3 months the garden has grown just like Claire has… super BIG. Well, since I didn’t know what I was doing when I planted everything, I am pretty pleased to have a nice big pumpkin for Halloween this year. I am going to let Claire carve it, ok- just kidding.There was a nice stream along the trail, and we even saw some fly-fishermen.Here’s my view during the hike. Of the cutest face EVER.This was an out-an-back trail so here we are at the halfway point. There was a nice area to walk down to the water, and we took a break to take some pictures. Claire woke up just in time!In the trees.I took a picture of this curvy tree. I don’t know why. Jenn made fun of me. I don’t care. Now we can always remember “that one curvy tree”.Ok, we got a little crazy with the camera at the end of the hike. Claire was being so cute, so be patient with all the cute pics of her. I just couldn’t help myself. Here we are right as the trail ended, before we crossed the big bridge to the parking lot.Posing on mommy’s knee. SO cute.Here we are again, the hiking girls!This is one of my all-time favorite pics of Claire. You can see her laughing at us.So bright eyed!Here is where we crossed the stream to get back to the blazer. The colors were all so beautiful.


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