Hi Everyone!! I hope you all had a really good Valentine's Day! We did!! We ended up going to the Home & Garden Show in Denver, it was so much fun! There were all these cool things to see, and some of the people gave me balloons and candy!! They even had a display of yard toys that I could play on!! There was a turtle, and bridge, and a bunch of flowers, and fake grass that everyone there was trying to sell!! Mommy and Daddy said I was a really good boy!! I stayed in the stroller almost the whole time, and didn't complain!!! (which almost never happens!) Especially surprising because I didn't take a nap the whole time, but I slept the whole way home! Here's some pictures of me playing on the turtle, and Me and Mommy in front of the pirate ship. Yes, I'm wearing my Valentine's shirt - it says Heart Breaker!!

Not much else has been going on the past couple of weeks. Mommy and I have been playing outside a lot, it's been really warm. This week it's suppose to be in the 60's all week again!! We go to the park some times, but we play in the back yard a lot too, with the doggies. I like to play outside! I can run, and run, and run!!! I like to RUN!!!

Here's a picture that Mommy finally got of me and Daddy vacuuming. Mommy calls it "Battle of the Vacuums"! See how much ours look alike!! Everytime Mommy and Daddy get it out, I have to help them with mine!

Well, after many phone calls and emails, and a couple of interviews, Mommy and Daddy finally found a new babysitter for me when Mommy starts working weekdays again! And it's Lacey - My friend Greg's Mommy that lives across the street!! It worked out really well, because she's a kindergarten teacher, and her school only goes 4 days a week. So she has Fridays off, when Mommy works. And, Mommy's boss is going to start her full time later (not til June because they need her later since another guy is going away in July for Police Academy), So I get to stay with Greg and Lacey all summer too!! YEAH!!! I'm so excited that I get to play with Greg all the time, and Mommy's excited cuz she only has to take me across the street!! Everything worked out really well!! Mommy starts working Fridays and Saturdays next weekend (in March) so I don't get to stay with Greg until then, but I can't wait!! I'll let you all know how much fun it is!! talk to ya later!!

Slide Time!!

Check out my new slide everyone!!! Mommy got it for cheap off of craigslist for me this week. I have been playing on it everyday!! I love to slide down it, and slide my toys down it! It is so much fun - I can't wait until it's warm enough that we can take it outside and play with it! In other news, Mommy starts the new part of her job at the end of this month. She is still only working two days a week until May, but now it will be Friday and Saturday, instead of Saturday and Sunday. This means it's time to find a new babysitter again! But that's ok, cuz Mommy will get Sundays off, which is so exciting!! We can spend the whole day as a family, and still go to church!! And it looks like when she starts full-time in May she will still get Sundays off!! Yeah!! This summer is going to be way better than last summer!!
Daddy is still fixing the Jeep!! It's been almost two weeks (or maybe longer) now, and Mommy and I have been stuck at home so Daddy can drive the Xterra while the Jeep is sitting in pieces in the garage waiting for a part. Hopefully it will come in today, so Daddy can fix it tonight, and Mommy and I can get out of the house tomorrow! If not, maybe we will just drop Daddy off in the morning and go do something!
Yesterday was Grandma Wilson's Birthday!! Mommy and Daddy and I sent her some really warm socks (Smartwools - just like mine!!) cuz Mommy let her borrow some when she was here and she loved them so much!! We called her yesterday and she was so happy to get them!! Happy Birthday Grammy!!
Valentine's Day is coming up, and I don't know what Mommy and Daddy have planned (hehe - I don't think they do either!!) We were going to go to the Denver Zoo (cuz it's a Free-Day) but it looks like it will be too cold. Darn! So I don't know. Maybe we will go snowshoeing, or something. I don't really care - as long as I get to spend it with Mommy and Daddy!! Happy Valentine's Day everyone - I love all of you!!!

New Toy, New Job

Daddy's Friend at his work gave me one of her son's old toys this week, and I love it!! I wouldn't let it out of my sight for nearly three days!! In fact, I screamed the night I got it because I wanted to take it to bed with me, and then the next morning Mommy had a meeting at her work and I carried it on my lap in the car (and took it in with me!) I'm doing better now, I can go almost an hour with out playing with it, or screaming because I want it. But this weekend when Daddy was Vacuuming, I got mine and helped him!! I went downstairs with him and upstairs with him!! It was so much fun helping Daddy!! The best part is the vacuum is the same as Mommy and Daddy's (except theirs is green not red, and theirs has dirt in it where mine has pretty balls that spin around!)

Mommy wants me to tell you about her meeting at work this week. Apparently the Larimer County Department of Natural Resources is getting re-organized (whatever that means!!) So she has been moved to the Open Lands Division instead of the Parks Division. That happened because Horsetooth Mountain Park (where she works) has been moved and is Now Horsetooth Mountain Open Space. Which doesn't mean a whole lot except now the rangers will be focusing on resource protection and not as much on visitor experience (at least that's what Mommy says!) Also that means that she is in charge of ALL the Larimer County Open Spaces, not just Horsetooth. So starting March 1 (when all this goes into effect) she will be patrolling the entire Larimer County, from Devil's Backbone in Loveland to Red Mountain up at the Wyoming Border!! She is very excited, because she really wanted to work at Red Mountain, and now she gest too (along with all of the other open spaces!!) She works with 4 other people, and all of her bosses have changed too. Plus she has to go through a lot more training since she will be driving a lot (how to handle things that she encounters on the road like accidents, and medicals in the backcountry up to an hour away from ambulance help). But overall she's really excited!! So that means she will only spend this month sitting in the gatehouse, then it's back to patrolling the trails!! Yeah!! Well, it's time for me to go to bed. Have a Happy Groundhog's day tomorrow!! (I wonder how much longer winter will last . . . )