Auntie Kim, Jeanna and I went to the Garden of the God's on Saturday afternoon. You've got to love Colorado-snow on the ground, bright blue skys and 50 degrees in January. Yesterday got up to 62! Can't wait for you to get here, Mom and Dad!

Here are a few pics. of Jeanna and her brothers around the house. She has become quite a climber. She loves to step up on the nursing stool and climb into the chair in her room. What's next? Of course a good read with a friend. Jeanna loves her baths too. She names all her toys and blows bubbles on command! Before school breakfast is always a trip around here. Alex and Tony are really good about getting themselves together for the day- I just have to make sure they don't wring each other's necks before we get out the door!

Here's Jeanna in her Christmas dress and the new coat her Aunt Kelley got her. Now, don't call the authorities because my daughter is in a cage- She crawled in there herself at Grandma Sue's house- She loves it! For a more casual look, Jeanna has donned her Avalanche hoodie that her papa got her. Jeanna loves pointing to and saying "hockey" whenever she sees it on tv or across the front of her brother Alex's or papa's shirts.

Here are some pics. from Christmas. You can see Tony with the '73 that he and Ken plan on restoring. Some day this hunk-o-metal will be his car. I think the guys had a good CHristmas- Tony got a rack to display is karate belts and a digital camera (which is already broke!). Alex got a guitar and all the accessories- including lessons. You can see Jeanna playing with her magnetic sketch pad. There's also a pic. here from our time at Keith (Ken's brother) and Jess's house with the cousins on the couch (in order of age) Alex, Tony, Kassidy, Tyler, and Jeanna. We are just missing Marty (Scott's son) who spend the holiday in Oregon.

Good times and sad

Here are some "around the house" pics I took before Christmas. As you can see, Jeanna has developed her mother's love of sweets. She know the words cookie, cake and ice cream!
On a sadder note, we had to put our beloved Frodo, down. THis was a very hard decision, but he was so sick; we felt it was in his best interest. He will always hold a special place in our hearts.

New (old) pictures

These pictures are pretty old (sometime in November?), but I wanted to post from when Tony moved from purple to blue belt. This is his 6th belt in the series.