Saturday, February 27, 2010

Swimming Saturday

This past Friday and Saturday I had a swim meet! On Friday Abe, Neil and the Hoffs came and watched me swim in a 400 medley relay (we are now state record holders for our age group), 100 IM and the 1,650 yard freestyle. Then today we headed back to the pool after Neil's last basketball game of the season. Today I swam 100 free, 50 backstroke, 500 free, and 50 breast. And, now I am TIRED! Abe did really well in the cheer section.

We all got these nifty caps for participating in the meet. Neil and Banjo tried it on too.



Tuesday, February 23, 2010

They made it

David and Diane arrived safely last Thursday. The shiny read pick-up isn't so shiny any more. They seemed to have brought the warm weather from the south. All the snow is melting. Don't tell me we're already into break-up! Let the Alaskan Adventure begin!
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He's graduated!

We knew he was smart! This week Abe got his diploma in the mail from Whitman. I guess they're trying to recruit those tuition dollars early.

I'd like some sweet potato fries with that!

When we were in Seattle in December, Abe and I went to Geraldine's with my mom and grandma. We had the sweet potato fries, which are oh so good, and the waitress gave us this little onesie! Look for this boy's picture in the window soon! :)

Bowls of fun!

We got these cute little bowls from my grandma for Valentine's Day! Abe had fun putting them into his mouth. At one point he started getting frustrated, because he couldn't fit all 3 in at the same time. Do you like how the dood also has something to chew on in the background?


Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Fatherly Instincts

Today Neil got to come to music class with Abe and I since he had the day off of work. He did a great job singing and dancing around! During instrument time this little kid picked up a wooden block-like instrument and chucked it right at Abe's head. Fortunately Neil's cat-like reflexes deflected it, thus saving Abe from a concussion, or at least a big conk on the head. You should have seen the stair down he gave the poor little kid afterwards. His mom felt really bad, and she made them go home early. I feel kind of bad for the kid. I think he has ADD or something. He's always acting up. Maybe it's because he has a brand new little sister (named Emily) who he now has to compete with for attention.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Happy Birthday Grandpa!

Well I'm a few hours early, but I wanted to have this post ready for the morning. We hope you have a wonderful birthday!

Valentines Day Parts 1 and 2

Part 1
On Valentines Day Neil got up early to take Jared to the airport. He got to go to Hawaii. So, Abe and I got up to make a yummy breakfast for us to have when he got back. It was another gorgeous day our, so we took Banjo to the dog park. Apparently that was a Valentine's Day destination. There were sooo many dogs and owners there. Banjo had a great time, and was dead tired when we got home.

We were originally going to make a special dinner, but we didn't get around to going to the store, so instead we decided to go out for Chinese food to celebrate the year of the tiger. We went to the restaurant that we took Abe to with my parents when he was just 10 days old. Unfortunately it was closed for a "Chinese event" so we had to go to another place that we'd seen off the highway. It was pretty horrible, but we had fun anyways.

Abe helping make the pancakes with his whisk.
I tried to make the pancakes heart shaped.
Part 2
Today we made our Valentine's day feast that we didn't get to yesterday. We made scallops with risoto and asparagus. It was really tasty. I got the recipe in the cookbook BBC gave us for our wedding. For dessert we had dryer's tagalong ice cream. Who doesn't love girl scout cookies?

Yummy dinner.
The dood assumed his position under the table.
Who needs fancy toys to shove in your mouth when you have a good old fashioned spoon?

This morning Neil attempted to trim my bangs. I was NOT happy with the results. I asked him to trim them just above my eye brows and this is the results. His reply was that they were above one of my eyebrows. I wore a hat all day. At least hair grows back.




The Dood Wins!

Ever since Abe's frost nip experience last week we've been a little hesitant to take him out in the cold. Fortunately it's been pretty "warm" here this past week. Today is was in the 30's! So, Banjo had his day (finally). After work on Friday we picked up Neil and took Banjo to the dog park. We've been gaining quite a bit of daylight, and it was still light out. We all had a great time.

Neil and Banjo climbed up this huge pile of snow.

Here's the view from atop the big snow pile.
Classic dood rolling in the snow to cool off.
Hi little snow boy!
What a nice sunny day!




Wednesday, February 10, 2010

A few of my favorite things

Here are a few of Abe's favorite things to do.


Super Bowl Party Pictures

Our friends Remy and Heather got married this weekend in Maui. Since we unfortunately couldn't make the wedding Neil and Abe still dressed up in their Hawaiian shirts to celebrate. We got shirt and shorts at a flea market in hawaii while we were there last April. Then a few days later we saw a matching one for Neil at an ABC store and couldn't resist. Abe's new favorite thing to do is suck on bottles. I shared my root beer with him.
Neil and his first son.
Abe checking out the nachos. We also had veggies and dip, spam musubi (to go with the hawaiian theme), peanut butter m&m's, jalapeno potato chips, Kari and Jared brought rice crispy squares and pulled pork sandwiches, and Rachel brought bread pudding. Yum!

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Super Bowl XLIV Predictions

Last year I predicted the Cardinals over the Steelers, which didn't quite happend. But they covered, and that's all that matters (unless you had the Cardinals on the moneyline...to bad my brother is the only one who will understand that). This year I'm all about dem Saints. I definitely like them to cover, and if things go right I think they can pull off the upset. Everyone is all over Mighty Whitey (Manning), but the Saint's offense is GOOD. If I was in Vegas, I would probably do a parlay of Saints + the points, a score in the last two minutes of the half or game, and Reggie Wayne and Colston to score a TD.

Can't wait for kickoff in a half hour, and to eat all of the tasty food that Emily and I and our friends are making.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Watch out bad guys...

...cuz I'm now doing casework!

I'm just finishing up my first batch of actual cases. On Thursday I put 3 profiles into CODIS and I got 2 hits!!! Boo-yahh!!! Not only did they hit to convicted offenders, they also hit to other cases - I believe one was a 2000 case, and the other was a 2002 case (mine were 2005). It's pretty sweet finally seeing results from all of my training and work. I have 6 cases in my current batch, and I think I'll have 5 profiles to to upload.

Daddy and Abe time

Here are some pictures of me and Abe.

Two sweater are different. Can you guess who's is who's? And no, the one on the right is not Abe's.Abe and I had a sleep on Saturday after basketball. It had a little extra-workout afterwords as well. Emily went to swimming, so she dropped of Abe at basketball with me (there was just 1 minute left in our game). So then Abe and walked home (I walked, he rode in his stroller). But we used the stroller that goes with his carseat, which has small wheels. And of course it snowed on Friday and Saturday for the first time in months, so the stroller required a little extra push. It probably took over a half our to push Abe home, when it probably took me about 15 minutes to walk to the gym/church before.
Abe has two teeth on his bottom gum. He like to put things in them, like my thumb.
Last Saturday it was beautiful out, so we thought it would be nice to hike around Flattop. We even used this pack for the first time. But we were about 5 minutes from the parking lot when Abe started making this horrible wheezing sound. He kept making it every few minutes, so w decided to cut our hike short and go back home. We took him into the doctor the next day, and Abe was fine - he didn't have anything wrong with his lungs. We guess it's just a new sound that he likes to make.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

the littlest swimmer

Abe mastering the fly.

Last night we took Abe to a parent and me free swim. We were a little late getting started, because neil had to pick up the car from the mechanics (it needed new brakes), so we arrived with probably 30 minutes left in the session. By the time we all got ready we were only in the water for around 15 minutes. It was fun though! Abe seemed to like the water. There were only 2 other parent/child sets, so there was plenty of room for us to explore the water in. Afterwards changing took another half hour or so. So, basically we spent over an hour going to and from/getting ready all for a 15 minute splash in the water. Next time we'll try to get there earlier. Abe was fast asleep by the time we left the parking lot.