Gorgeous Colorado

Yesterday we were outside in beautiful Golden, Colorado. We spent a good portion of the day climbing with three great friends. It was the perfect number of people because there was always someone to watch Elias. Even though he didn't climb any routes, I think he had a great time just hanging out (mostly with Kat). With not much for him to do (but get extremely dirty), he ate...and ate and ate and ate. I have never seen him eat so much food. I think the picture below sums up how we all felt once we made it back to the car. What's not to love about Colorado!

Napping Conundrum

Elias used to take a morning and an afternoon nap when he was at home. He really does like sleeping (gets it from me). These last two weekends I have been trying to skip the morning nap because quite often he would just cry instead of nap...and he only has one nap at school. The trouble is by the time lunch rolls around he can barely keep his eyes opened and he becomes very very crabby (gets it from me). I'm thinking about re-instituting the morning nap..............for Elias.

Dessert Feast with Dinner

We had some great folks (Shari, Brad, Mika and Sara) over for dinner the other night and had a wonderful time. We had some yummy homemade enchiladas, but the really exciting part were the desserts. There were chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, carrot cake and chocolate cupcakes with some kind of cream cheese filling...a dessert feast with dinner as a side note. Just my style. We hadn't seen everyone in a while, so it was nice to finally catch up. It seems like it is harder and harder to find time to be with friends. Kids become giant time suckers; there is no time to hang out with good people, certainly no time to get all of the errands done, and the days, weeks and years fly by. As a friend so eloquently put, "sigh".

My Own Poll

I couldn't make a poll like I used to in yahoo, so vote via comments.

I couldn't wait to go to work this morning. It's not that I have the perfect job or that I'm working on a great project. It was just a much needed break from Elias. Does that mean:

a) I need a psychiatrist
b) It's all about balance
c) When wouldn't someone rather be at work?

Chubby Cheeks

High Hopes

A little over a week ago, Matt, Elias and I went to the Folks Festival in Lyons, Colorado. When I bought the tickets in early June, I was super excited. An all day outdoor concert with various folk musicians, plus the main act of Gillian Welch and her guitarist David Rawlings (love them!). Why wouldn't it be great?

Well, it was pretty crowded by the time we got there, so we were a bit crammed in on our blanket. Elias was antsy and pretty hard to keep entertained. It rained, but thankfully only for about 10 minutes. Once it neared Elias' bedtime, we tried to get him to sleep on the blanket, but he wouldn't have it. We had to stroll him around and around until he fell asleep. Then the transfer back to blanket didn't work, so we had to stroll him around and around again. We had to leave early so we didn't get to hear all of Gillian and Dave, and we were both exhausted on Monday morning.

Why is it that when you have such high hopes, things never seem to turn out?

Book Club

My high society book club ladies came over on Monday to discuss the classic I had chosen, Ethan Frome. It is always fun to get together and everyone seemed to enjoy the book. Unfortunately Elias had a hard time getting to sleep, and I discovered that Matt and I are not very good at cooking for more than 4 people at a time (there were 7 of us). It is unfortunate as I always have delicious food at all of the other book club meetings. I'm thinking we will head to restaurant for the next one.