Fishing

On January 1st, 2008, Jim took me to Wal Mart to buy fishing licenses. Nearly every weekend since then, he has been itchin' for fishin'. The man who sold us the licenses was impressed at our expediency.

We finally got a chance yesterday. Mikey and Julie came along for the ride, and we headed south to Pueblo Reservoir.

My infamous "never caught a fish" streak continued.

We had fun nonetheless. The day went something like this.

We stopped for lunch.
Jim fished to his heart's content.

I fished.
Reagan took a nap.

After awhile Julie, Mikey and I got bored and decided to see how well we could skip rocks; the answer was quite well.
I experimented with the new camera and took this shot of the water through the lens of my sunglasses...

We found some fossils.
Then, after an excellent day, we loaded up and came back home!

Oops...

I almost forgot...

Reagan has new sunglasses.

New Camera!

If you haven't ever heard of a website called Woot then I highly recommend it. It is a website that offers electronic equipment and some household items for huge discounts. Granted, sometimes they're refurbished items (like ours), but my philosophy is this: if it works, who cares??? Each day they offer a new deal, and it's available until it's sold out or until the next deal comes on. Thanks to Mikey for turning us on to that one.

(It's rare that we get a picture of Jim looking so happy and directly at the camera in a picture, so I had to include this one.) :)

Our camera is a Kodak Easyshare V1003. It is small, has several options, and is PERFECT for us. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely ADORE my Nikon D80. I mean really, who couldn't? But for vacations, or hikes, or trips to the mountains or Texas, it's a bit much to pack. This camera fits in Jim's pocket or my purse with room to spare. And, I think it takes great pictures...but you be the judge.

Oh, and in my last post, I said that we'd be buying baby gates next month. Since a lot of our time lately is spent doing this, it may need to be sooner.

Happy Spring!

Happy Easter!

Easter marks the last of Reagan's COMPLETE first holidays. I say complete because, as you may know, Reagan was born on Easter last year, but since she took her time getting here, she missed the first 7 hours of it.


Yesterday was a relaxing day for us; we went to church in the morning and headed out to my parents house for lunch in the afternoon.


Reagan had a VERY cute Easter dress, which will also double as her birthday party dress. I took some pictures of her, of course, but if you come to her birthday party you'll get to see the real thing!
As you see, she LOVES to climb the stairs. Next month we will be purchasing baby gates!

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Luckily for me, we had a snow day today. So, I got to stay in with Reagan. Then, once the roads melted, the errands began! I realized as I was getting dressed that Reagan wasn't wearing nearly enough green, because I had forgotten it was St. Patty's Day. So, I put this outfit on her.

Our nanny pointed out that the particular shade of green sort of washes her out, which I agreed with, so she doesn't wear it much. But it sure is cute! And so is she.



Reagan was being especially goofy today. I'm not sure what got into her! Maybe it's because of her Great Great Great Grandpa, William McMorrow on Grandpa Bill's side. He makes Reagan 1/32nd Irish, and everyone loves an Irish Lass. One of her favorite things to do is to sneak (i.e., crawl as fast as she can) into the refrigerator. I'm not sure what her fascination is, but she certainly has one. So, she was being so silly that we didn't stop her since I had my camera handy. She was showing a healthy mixture of healthy (the yogurt)
and recreational (the beer).

And then, after Jim finished his dinner, she decided that she had to have is plate. She snatched it out of his hands, and before we knew what happened, she, well, did this:



I have no idea where she even learned this trick. I won't lie; I have sometimes been known to lick my ice cream bowl, or let the dog do it, but I haven't had ice cream recently enough for Reagan to remember...so I'm stumped.

So...after all of Reagan's tomfoolery, coupled with the trip to REI that I had to find replacement sunglasses (I finally settled on these, *in tortoise brown), that it was only appropriate for a Green Beer. So, I took the *beer that Reagan had tried to steel earlier in the night, added a little food coloring, and there, I had it. After all, I'm not Irish, and now, I'm the only member of my immediate family who is not, so I have a little to make up for on this, the day of the Leprechaun. Goodnight!

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No Pictures But...

There is news.
I have decided to do a triathlon! I signed up and started training last week.
I'm not completely crazy, the triathlon I signed up for is only a sprint (a total misnomer, but I'll get to that in a minute) and it's women only.

A sprint triathlon consists of about a 1/2 mile swim, followed by a 12 mile bike ride, and finishes with a 3.1 mile run. I'm VERY excited. I feel, however, that the title of "sprint" triathlon is a complete misnomer because even with those shorter distances, it's hard for me to believe that there is ANY sprinting going on.

My race is on June 29th and it is in Denver at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds. If you're not busy and you're in the area I would LOVE to have you cheer me on. Knowing that people I love will be there will also help me train between now and June! Wish me luck. :) And don't worry, Spring Break starts in a week, so I'll soon have time to take more pictures of Reagan.

Keep the Old

The weather the last few days has been absolutely beautiful! Yesterday was nearly 70 degrees, the day before that was nearly 60. I went for a bike ride with my friend Jen yesterday. It was great to see her, and she took me on a bike path through town that I didn't even know existed. We rode for about 14 miles total, and we had a great time. I'm adjusting well to the pedals; I just seem to have a tough time getting out of them when I'm stopped. It's a little funny, actually. I frequently take my right foot out and lean to the left...therefore falling. Eh, I'll get the hang of it.

Anyway, the weather was gorgeous, until today. Now, it has been snowing until about 2am, and it's supposed to continue until about 4am. Here's hoping there'll be at least a delay.
On Thursday, since it was so nice, I took Reagan out on the front porch and took some pictures. If the outfit looks a little old fashioned, it's because it is...it was mine. :)

And, for some reason, I still love her feet.

Presents!

Julie got home from her visit to Bill and Debbie's boat in Florida today. She and Mikey came over for dinner and she came bearing gifts!

Bill and Debbie got me a necklace:

Jim a T-Shirt:

and Reagan a stuffed sting ray!

Julie got Reagan a butterfly finger-puppet from the butterfly conservatory on Key West.

Thanks for the presents everyone! We love them!

Haircut

I got my haircut today! It's very different, and when I walked in Reagan crawled over to greet me, took one look at me and stopped right in her tracks. She stared at me for a minute, so I picked her up. I was a little nervous, but she let out a little squeal, so I'm assuming everything is ok.It makes me laugh that she knows to smile for the camera...

Valentine's and SO Big!

Reagan went to the doctor today for her follow up appointment. She is SO much better! Poor girl...on top of her cold, then ear infection, she also caught the stomach bug that Jim and I had. No good... it killed her appetite and made her sick for about 4 days. She was finally mostly back to normal yesterday and completely back to normal today.




Valentine's day was good for us, except for Reagan being sick. I had passingly made a comment to Jim about how my dad would always bring home 2 sets of flowers on Valentine's day: one for Mom and one for me. I told him that he'd have to get ready to do that when Reagan got older. But, to our surprise, he came home with roses and a card for me, and tulips for Reagan. She didn't think much of them, but some day she certainly will. Reagan has one last, first holiday next month when St. Patrick's day comes. I can't believe she's almost one! I feel like I blinked and 10 months went by.




I finally got Reagan to do SO big on camera...several times.



In other news, I bought my first road bike yesterday! It's SO pretty, and as one of my friends said, I should be arrested for stealing for the price I paid for this beautiful bike. I've only been around the block a few times, but have a good ride planned for tomorrow. Tomorrow is also the first day of track practice. I'll be coaching jumps part time.

Reagan's First Hike

We've been having some wonderful weather lately...at least intermittently. Sunday, it was in the mid 40's, so we decided to go for a hike with Julie and Mikey. We took Reagan to Red Rock Canyon, an open space area on the west side of town. Reagan had a good time for the most part, and even fell asleep on the way back to the cars. We took Scout, and so I think she's starting to get the idea that things are mostly back to normal. (I hope so, anyway!) Thanks, once again, to Julie for the pictures.

New!

Reagan has some new toys! We went to Wal Mart tonight, and in the checkout line (or, as I like to call it, the Impulse Buy section) I saw the PERFECT toy for Reagan for less than $3. Her very own baby cell phone. FINALLY! A way to keep her away from ours. As you can see, she finds it every bit as enthralling as ours.


The high school's library was having a book sale and I got some books for Reagan. Two board books, a Mother Goose book, and an elephant book about finding (and liking) your own voice. I was thinking back to this and seeing her with books now seems like night and day. She definitely loves them, and loves to look at them...but only by herself. The second Jim or I starts reading to her she takes off and becomes disinterested. All in good time.



On a side note, a friend left a comment about the struggle of keeping a clean house with a crawling child. If you look closely, you can see our solution: a good thorough carpet cleaning and an area rug. :)



I almost forgot...Reagan has her first ear infection. No fun, no fun at all. But she got bubble gum flavored medicine which she absolutely loves (not joking, she cries when we put it away, although I'm not sure that's saying anything because she also loves to do this: ), and she seems to be well on her way to recovery. Jim is better, but now I have the stomach yucks. Someday, we'll all be well again.

She turned 10 months old yesterday!