A New Device

After fighting it off for as long as I could, I am now part of the iPhone family. But at $50 you really can't beat that. Have you seen the phone I was using before? Let just say this is a bit of an upgrade.
So I downloaded an app that I can blog from, which is what I'm doing right now. Maybe this will help me keep up with my blogging. We'll see!

Let's give it a try

Tomorrow we are off for a night in a cabin out on the Army base. It's our first practice round of travelling with Sydney. I'm expecting to not sleep much (which I usually don't anyway) and hoping we don't give up at 4:00 in the morning and just head home. We'll be out there with three other families and will do some snow machining (snowmobiling in AK language) and some x-country skiing. Hope it goes well and I'll have some fun pictures to post.

Two Months

Visit from my awesome sis!

My sister, Kelsy, is visiting right now! It's so wonderful to have her. She is probably one of my favorite guests, because it's so easy to have her. I don't have to worry about entertaining her (Sydney solves that problem), making some elaborate dinner for her, even cleaning the house (although I did because it was a good excuse to get that done). She's just so easy. We are on day three and all mornings have been spent with a cup of coffee and pajamas until about noon (don't tell anyone)! Today, we have to get going though! She is going to go skiing and Sydney and I are going to hang out in the lodge.

She was trying to avoid having this picture taken of her and look how beautiful she is!

What Happens Late at Night

This is what happens late at night when Dad's in charge.

John was in charge of feeding and changing and burping for a night. In the morning when I got up to feed Sydney, I found that her onesie had been turned into a muscle tee. Apparently, John got a little frustrated with the sleeves and instead of fighting to get her arms through them, he just cut them off. Later he added the graphic.

...but look at the guns on that girl!

Blogger's Block

As most of you know, I've never been very good at blogging. I thought, "well, what is so interesting about my life that it's worth writing about, maybe when I have a kid I'll have more interesting things to write about." Now look, here I am, six weeks and all I can manage to post is a few pictures here and there (granted, they are darn cute pictures). However, I realize that this problem all goes back to a conversation I had with my mom when I was around 4th grade...

I was laying in bed one night, listening to my mom and older sister having a real heart to heart. After they were done, she came in and said good night one more time and I expressed to her my concern that her and I never share our "thoughts and feelings." My next words will forever haunt me... "then I realized I don't have any thoughts or feelings to tell you."

So there you have it, I have no thoughts or feelings, therefore, I have a very hard time blogging. Actually, I have founds that I do have some thoughts and feelings (although my mom will never let me forget those words), but I still have a hard time expressing them.

In closing, I do have a few ideas that I hope to post as long as I get some time. But if you have any other ideas for me, I would love to hear them. Sometimes I just need a little direction.

On a side note: my sister is awesome at blogging and she had a great post the other day that you can read here.

And just because she's a sweet little angel, here's another picture:

One Month Old

It's hard to believe that an entire month has gone by already! Since birth, Sydney has gained 1 lb. 8 oz. and grown 2 inches! Here are some highlights of the first month.