Christmas morning video

Enjoy!

Merry Christmas!

I'm, dreaming, of a holy cow blizzard snow drift in the front yard but we are warm inside with cute girls Christmas. Video to come.

Painted Toes

We all got pretty toes today. Can you guess who's toes Sonja painted?

We Love Our Toby Dog!

Toby is such a good dog. He loved wrestling with us. I can't get over how strong he is! He was almost able to push both of us off of him.

Thank you Aunt Janet

My wonderful Aunt sent us beautiful flowers. I love that they have Balsam, and White pine needles. Smells like New England =)

The reason why you aren't getting a card

Its now only 5 days till Christmas, and I'm sorry to say that I haven't sent out any cards yet. I REALLY wanted to get a cute picture of the girls. I tried and failed. Either one wasn't smiling, or they both were and it was out of focus. Then the crankiness set in. Plus, Ron any my self have been having health "issues". Nothing life threatening, but definetly slowing us down. Please accept our apologizes and know you are all thought of, prayed for, and loved this Christmas.

Here is one of the pictures I took, I know it looks ok, but on paper you would wonder if you needed glasses.

"Great little One! Whose all-embracing birth lifts Earth to Heaven, and stoops Heaven to Earth."
~ Richard Crashaw

Playing!

So we had to wait till 3:00pm before it got warm enough to go out and play (A balmy 25) but we did have fun!

Now for hot chocolate.

Snow!

So, usually folks complain about all the snow we get, but I love it. Sophia had me up at just before 7am this morning, and it was beautiful to see the sun rise above the plains, with everything frosted. When the kids get older, it's going to be ski time! The mountains got about 2-4 feet of fresh powder last night...can't wait!

Some pictures for your enjoyment!

Sophia Eating Strained Prunes

Just wanted to share the cuteness that is Sophia. She loved her Prunes!

Happy Halloween!

So the family dressed up and headed out to church! (Too cold again for door-to-door)

Here are some pics.

Well...

I did predict a sweep, but I had my crystal ball backwards.

Red Sox simply overpowered us. But like I said to coworkers on Friday, before the all-star break the Rockies were minor league...I think the SkySox in town here were hitting better. So to have the honor of losing to the Sox in a World Series was good enough for me.

Now go to bed...you crazies.

Do Over?

Please?

So yeah, that's the Red Sox for ya. Once they get on a roll they can't be stopped. But when they are cold, they're cold.

Let see if the Rockies pitching staff will show up tomorrow night.

Rebutt to Rebuttal

Playing stat games with the Rockies isn't fair:

Italics are from our friends in Penn Steph's Stats, Bolded items are mine.

Boston 96-66 .593 Post season record, 6-3 .666 (Evil =P )


Colorado 90-73 .552 Post season record 7-0 1.00

HISTORY: in fairness only since Rockies became a team…
Colorado -

1995 - NL West Champs

2007 - NLCS Champs

Red Sox -

The following is in the past, this is like saying the yankees are unbeatable because they have won 4 world series since '96 ( and look what happened this year)

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1995 AL Wild card winner

1999 Division Champs
2003 Division Champs

2004 World Champs

2005 AL Wild card winner
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2007 AL Champs
Beckett - Career Post season: 5-2, 1.51 ERA
yeah he's good, too bad he can't pitch all 7 games)

Schilling - Career Post season: 10-2, 2.19 ERA
past his prime. He's not the bloody sock we once loved

I would be more worried about your bullpen:

Red Sox ALCS
Wakefield 0-1 ERA 9.64
Delcarmen ERA 16.20 (on 1.2 innings pitched)
Gagne 0-1 ERA 7.71
Lopez ERA 18.00

Rockies NLCS
Morales ERA 2.25
Fuentes ERA 7.36
Herges ERA 0.00
Hawkins ERA 0.00
Affeldt ERA 0.00
Speier ERA 0.00


Manny - Holds record for number of HR’s in post season, 04 AL Hank Aaron Award;World Series MVP;AL Home Run Champion


Thats great and all, he also holds the record for longest single in ALCS history. Sox are down 3-1 and he decides to watch his 'homer' from home plate. Home boy needs to run it out

Speaking of Manny, left center at Coor's field is a full 90 feet farther than at Fenway. Let's hope chunky can make the run at 5000+ feet. Maybe he should bring out his water bottle again.

PS:

This is fun, lets hope they make it to the World Series, it's only a 1 run game in the 5th.

Snow! Woot!

So finally, we have snow. The wife is none too happy, but Sonja and I can't wait to run around outside. Good thing we got the pumpkins out of the garden yesterday (where we hit a balmy 70 degrees BTW)







Also on a side note. I'm fairly confident that the Sox will pull off another 3-1 comeback, but it won't matter. This series of pictures will explain:




WILL



DA

Cookie Time

Well it's cold, and we might get snow tonight, so Sonja and I decided to make cookies. Don't worry, they'll be plenty left for when mama gets home tomorrow.

Fun in Maine

Well we've been in Maine for the past few days. Sonja is having a great time with the Grandparents and family friends.

But the highlight was when she got to ride in Don's sidecar:

More B-day Pics!

Instead of cake, we had decorate your own birthday cupcake!




Ron was the biggest kid there! Isn't he great!



Quite the swing!



Mommy and Sophia enjoying the party.


THE LOOT!

Sonja's Big Party!

We had a ball, well bounce to be exact! The party was full of food, bouncing, make your own cupcakes, and a pinata! We had a princess theme through out. Sonja even wore her own princess costume. Here are a few pics enjoy!

Sonja's Birthday

Our little girl is 3 years old now :( Where did the time go? We just had her friend from next door over, and Mama made the cake. The big party is next weekend! See how much she grew in a year!

Of course she loved school!

After we dropped her off, Kris and I went off to have some breakfast, and kills some time. We couldn't go back home just yet.

When we got back to the school to pick her up, she saw us, gave me a big hug, then firmly told both of us, 'I'm not done yet Papa, I can't go home'. Then she ran off.

It was harder for her to leave school, then to leave us =( All weekend she asked if she was going back to school, and finally she went back on Tuesday. She barely said bye =(.

So, yeah, she loves it!

First Day of Pre-School

So, I was supposed to be in Japan last Thursday, but after about 26 hours of traveling, I surprised my girls and came home, just in time for Sonja's first day of pre-school.



Lets just say that the only one not in tears was Sonja.

(Video is about 4 minutes long, don't say I didn't warn ya!)

Mammoth Zuccini!

Yes that is from My garden!

My Dariling little girl

Isn't she cute!

At the zoo.

We love our Zoo. Its tucked up in at the base of Cheyenne Mt. Yes, that Cheyenne Mt. The one with a NORAD inside it. (https://www.cheyennemountain.af.mil/)

We love our zoo because you can feed the giraffes! Also, it has an old Carousel that Sonja just loves to ride.