New Pics

Well there has not been too much going on lately but here are some pictures from Sunday. We were eating lunch after church and Betsy who goes to our church was sitting at the table behind us snapping some pictures of Peter and Brennan..too cute! Thanks Betsy!

A few pictures and videos from the week

Here are a few pictures from this week. We got to hang out with Carolyn and Emmet for a morning! So glad we got to see you guys! Can't wait to see you again! The boys were so funny together. They were not very sure about each other at first. Emmet starting singing and Peter started bawling and then Peter cracked Emmet in the forehead with a tambourine and of course he started bawling..sorry buddy! I think all things were smoothed out when Emmet shared his cheese puffs with Peter.




Right before the tambourine attack....
Today Peter got to see his girlfriend Presley. They practiced playing the piano...they are pretty much musical geniuses. You'll see what I mean when you watch the video.



To end the post I will leave you with a funny little clip of Peter falling asleep while sitting in his bed. He has been boycotting naps and bedtime all week long and will sit up until he just falls over :)

The fun has begun....

Peter is crawling everywhere! Today has been wild especially. It is like his brain just clicked and he realized that he could go anywhere in the house. He found the bathroom, the dog food, Lucy's water bowl, Pete's shoes, and the doggy door all since he woke up from his first nap today. Things have definitely changed in our house the last few days. We have since broken in the safety gate.

Other than that the new year has brought lots of real estate calls, showings, and meetings. I have been dragging Peter all over town and Pete and I have been juggling him back and forth. I have also been going to the gym to a Zumba class this week! It is so much fun! I am enjoying every minute of it even though I look completely ridiculous. I missed going so much and haven't been since my first trimester when I was pregnant with Peter. They have childcare there which has been really nice. Pete has only 2 weeks left in his third semester of Hebrew (Good job babe!) and we are all looking forward to that part of seminary being over. Here is a video from this week. Enjoy!

Lots of updates and a Happy New Year!

Sorry for the long time between blogs! Lots has happened since last time. We went to my home town for Christmas but ended up spending Christmas Eve and Christmas in Methodist Children's Hospital in San Antonio because Peter had RSV. It was terrible but after my initial emotional meltdown everything turned out ok. It was better that we were there and we still got to spend Christmas night with my family. He bounced back so quickly and is doing great now. We got a Flip Video Camera for Christmas which is amazing by the way and so I posted a few videos. At the hospital we were not in a private room so we shared the room with another little girl who had RSV and both of her parents. So there were six of us sleeping in that room! lol...i ended up sleeping IN THE CRIB with Peter. oh man that makes me laugh..it was terrible..i have never slept in the same bed with Peter but it was either there or on the floor under the crib. I had the worst leg cramps ever that night. I almost killed Pete for getting the video camera out. This was a few hours before we got released to go home and Peter's breathing had improved so much.


This video is from the emergency room after I had held Peter down for a whole hour long breathing treatment and he finally went to sleep after he could breath a little. :( so sad..




In the hospital Peter learned how to pull up and stand in his crib. And since then he has learned to sit up from laying down, started crawling, and got a tooth! Here is his first tries at crawling. I will post more as soon as I get good video.

New Pictures

Here are a couple of pictures from the last couple of weeks. Enjoy!

Peter and Grandpa in the milo.
Peter and Tom at my office.
Century 21 Christmas Party.

At church.

Colorado Report #3

Yesterday we spent all day here at the house waiting for the snow storm that never arrived. The weather people said we would have 3-8 inches, we got about 1/8 of an inch. But it was cold and icy all day. I think the high here at the house yesterday was about 8 degrees. Last night we got down to zero. So we just stayed inside and spent the day celebrating Peter's 7 month birthday. It's hard to believe it has already been 7 months.
Today we planned to just go into town to get some formula, then visit a few more shops in Westcliffe. But the local grocery store was out of baby formula. So we headed into Florence about an hour or so away to get it. After that we went to the Royal Gorge Bridge. You can click here to see a great picture of it and read more about it. Our little camera just could not handle this thing. After that we found some snow near by and stopped to play in it. Peter had a blast. These are some of my (Pete) favorite pictures from today.

Tomorrow is our last full day here in Colorado. We plan to leave in the morning to head into Colorado Springs for the day. We don't have any set plans, so who knows what we will get ourselves into. We will stay there tomorrow night and then head back Sunday morning. It has been a great trip, but we are all ready to get back to South Texas. Can't wait to see you all.

Colorado Report #2

Ok this is Pete again and I know I am a bit picture happy today but this stuff is just too hard to explain without the pictures. So here is what we did today:

We woke up to a beautiful, brisk, cold, frosty morning here in the mountains. These are some of the mountains that are right out behind our cabin. It is truly a view that will take your breath away. We then drove to a small town called Rye and on into Colorado City for lunch at Ol'Zan's Place (?). The local bridge club happened to be meeting today so that was an experience as all the ladies played with Peter and gossiped at the bridge gathering.

After that we backtracked to a place called Bishop's Castle. This man has been building this real castle out in the middle of the forest since the 60's. It is huge! He has done it all himself and is proud of his work. This was a bit strange because there was no one else in the castle or anywhere close really. Just the three of us walking through it's huge rooms. It was about 15 degrees inside this rock fortress. You can click here to read more about this place and see some better pictures.

Peter and I looking through one of the small windows inside the spiral stair case.

This is inside what I think is the dining room.


This is the large room on the second floor. Maybe the master bed room, it has a great view.

Abby and Peter in the snow.

These are some more mountains near the town of Westcliffe. We took these on our way back to town. We went back to the house to rest for about an hour and a half then went back in to eat at a place called Pizza Madness. Best pizza I have ever had... and I have eaten some pizza, people.

I just thought this picture was funny. I don't know if Peter is trying to tell me how to drive, or what but he is really enjoying himself.

This is tonight right before bed as we practiced crawling. He is so tired. Peter still can't crawl but he rocks back and forth a lot, and can stay up on all fours much longer. I bet he will be on the move before long, that should be fun.

So that's it for Wednesday. Tomorrow we have another short road trip planned, then more relaxing. Just a few days left and we will be heading back to Texas. Can't wait to see you all.