January fun

Time to update a bit though not a great deal has been happening here. We had another ski weekend in Garmisch for the MLK long weekend and I have included some pictures here. It was amazing how much snow had disappeared in the couple of weeks between when we were there after Christmas and that weekend! But the skiing up on the mountain was still goood and, with the sidewalks clear, it made for easier walking with Tyler so I cannot complain!

The slide program appears to be on strike today so I will put a couple pic's below:

New shades!

Have Chariot will travel! Loooove this thing! Believe it or not, there is an attachment you can get to replace the wheels with SKI's LOL (for cross country skiing) it would've come in handy this trip

The snow was definitely there the higher up you went :-)

Wiped out at the end of the day!

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The pregnancy is going well and I am feeling big even though I am only 5.5 months and the ballooning part is truly yet to come LOL Scary thought! And we did find out we are having another GIRL :-) Darling Daddy is officially and permanently outnumbered!

Ty's been walking around everywhere now and has been in a decent mood considering she has broken in one back molar completely and the others are peaking through! Not the little baby anymore :) We've been telling her she is going to have a baby sister and, while she keeps saying 'baby', I know it will be loooong time before she gets it. She has definitely figured out that Mommy does not look the same though haha

HAIRCUT!

Well I did was I was not sure I would ever do.....I cut about 4 inches off for my 'soccer-mom' do and this past week I took the next step; another 4 inches off the back :-) LOL And I LOOOOOOVE it! (as does Sebastian surprisingly enough)

What can I say - it was time for a change! And yes the pregnancy is really beginning to show....I cannot believe that I am 5 months practically?! The time is going by really fast this time!

A Few Christmas Pictures

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

Sorry I have not blogged in a bit but as I am sure is true with everyone else, Christmas kinda side tracked us :-)

We stayed true to our word that we were home for Christmas....we left for Ramstein the next day LOL We stayed there for 4 days eating shopping and site-seeing (yes in that order) and then came home for 2 days and now we are in Garmisch (Alps) so Sebastian can get some skiing in before his leave is over. We are only here for a couple days so we will make the most of it though we now have Internet in the room (hotel did not before) so I may be able to throw some pics up if i can find them over the next couple days...

WOW 2008...that just does not seem real. Of course the thought that by the end of this year there will be 4 of us celebrating New Years is still mindboggling as well :) My biggest New Years resolution is to re-prioritize I know I am not the only one doing this so any thoughts, suggestions, prayers good mojo are appreciated LOL (Ok family, stop laughing now...Seriously I'm going to do this) Basically it comes down to making my family and work the big 2 and figuring out how to make them work together. You'd think working from home would make that easier...Nope No such luck - if anything I think it makes it worse but I digress...what else is there you may ask?? Travelling, housecleaning (gawd that never ends), errands, 2 X 80 pound furballs who think they are human, friends, etc Basically everything else. Trying to stay on top of everything is simply not going to work so the big challenge for me will be letting things...ahem....slide.

One last note (and then I will have to add more later as I am getting the 'lets go already' from Ty and Sebastian) is that Ty WALKED! Ok to clarify she has been standing and taking one/two step and then sitting down again for about 6 weeks (she thinks its hilareous) but on 30 Dec at Ramstein she walked about 4 feet back and forth between Sebastian and me. Sweet. I know my days are now numbered LOL

Ok - off to dinner. Hugs to all and hope you had a great Christmas and New Years!!

Is it really 11 days till Christmas?

Somehow it does not feel like Christmas is around the corner...I have done my baking - though because of nausea I haven't been able to eat much of it (well, okay I couldn't eat cookies buuuut the chocolate cheesecake was another story!). The house is decorated, lights are out and presents are wrapped....but somehow it just doesn't feel like Christmas.

Maybe its the weather? While I am not a fan of snow (it can stay in the mountains as far as I am concerned) but I had not thought we'd have rain (RAIN!) and grass that is still green. It isn't warm outside, but it certainly isn't a white Christmas like I was expecting. This year has flown by!

I still have not found the camera cord to download pictures - that is still a work in progress lol I need to check the place top to bottom again - and if that fails I am going to start to follow Ty around on the floor and start checking nooks and crannies at her level :)

Ty is 15 months doing her own thing - which still does not include walking. Yep - she walks along furniture and will walk if she is holding just one of our fingers but other than that - NOPE! She is into everything and some of her current favourites are: cupboards and drawers -particularly pulling everything from bathroom cabinets and throwing it into the toilet while your back is turned. YEAAAA!

Another fav (and my heart attack moment) is her crawling up AND down our spiral wood and concrete staircase by herself. I mean she hits the top will crawl into a room and come back to the top of the stairs and turn around and come back down! How she has mastered the confidence to do this but won't let go of that last finger ?? lol Frankly while I am looking forward to not having to scrub out knee stains, for how fast Miss Curious already moves there is a part of me that is secretly grateful she is not walking on her own because I fully expect the following week she would be running!

Long enough post. We are off to find our Christmas tree. Yeah we are a little late. Its our last Christmas item...Sebastian was gone and while I checked out a few places I didn't find a tree I liked. So we are off to find a tree (& hopefully not a Charlie Brown one!)