Bye Bye Binkie!

How sad...he gave up binkies like they never even mattered to him.  :(  When I was gone last week Joe had Eli throw away his binkies in exchange for a new toy, and he hasn't even asked about them.  Slept totally fine even that same day.

Pretending they are already asleep so they don't have to go to bed

Looking at Joe

The teacher and the student

Lots of discussion about "algorithms"

Trey's 10th Birthday Trip is...

Washington DC!

The trip is booked!  We are going in April and will be there Friday afternoon, all day Saturday - Monday, and most of the day Tuesday.  We are staying at the Westin Downtown so walking distance to a lot of the sights.  

Let the planning begin!

Little guy isn't feeling well

No bread, no fried food

1 week in, so far so good!

Eli at school

Brenley (purple shirt) is his little girlfriend.

I guess this will have to work for my picture today

Hike: Castlewood

Had a few guest hikers today when Erin and Ryan joined us! I really shouldn't have started out on a 4 hour hike (including stops) at 11am with little food. The kids were all troopers but we were starving! We went to noodles and company and all the kids were talking about "best meal ever!"

Master procrastinator

This guy mostly left his winter break workbook for the last day, but he REALLY wants to earn the pancake breakfast!

How Eli eats his apples

Trey used to do this!

Hike: Castlewood Canyon

First hike of the new year, and was it ever cold! When we set out the car thermometer said 9°. My phone app said it was 16°, but in any event it was cold and took us a while to warm up. It was our first time using the yakTrax because the trail was snowpacked and icy in spots. Trey thought they were so cool!

3.8 miles down, only 996.2 to go!

Using his new acrylic paint set!

Hike: Hidden Mesa Open Space

Not too shabby for a 16° day. And we saw a fox!

Happy birthday Mimi!

I miss you!

Eli: mommy! Guess what! I can't wait until Halloween!

Pool time

2016 Challenges/Goals/Resolutions

My favorite time of the year!  A brand new shiny set of challenges!  :)

So far here is what I have:

- 1,000 miles in 2016.  This can be walking, hiking, jogging, swimming (not likely), just as long as I cover 1,000 miles in 2016.  That is about 2.7 miles per day!  Having the treadmill at work will help.  My rule is that is has to be extra effort, so if I get 2 or 3 miles on a normal day just doing normal daily stuff, then I don't get to count it.

- Take a picture every day.  With my cool new Christmas camera this shouldn't be hard!

- 100 day burpee challenge.  1 burpee on day 1, then 2 on day 2, etc.

More to come...