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Thursday, 09 July 2009
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I've got plans for Maria's second birthday underway. It floors me that she'll be two next week.
My mom has cable. I watched an episode of Ace of Cakes and now I have it in my head to do a two-tiered chocolate cake with pink and brown marshmallow fondant. If it comes out half as well as I'm hoping, I'll post pictures. If it becomes a miserable wreck, please look for it on cakewrecks.com, where the commentary alone will be worth the failure.
Monday, 06 July 2009
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Picture post!
It turns out my brother's laptop likes picture cards, so I can do a picture post!
Maria was a great little traveler! She was an absolute angel on the plane!Mountain montage!!!
(The white stripe at the base of this mountain is Great Sand Dune National Park.)
The following pictures were taken at the Mesa Verde mountain dwellings, the condo, and the sand dunes:
Joe looking for marmots at the condo (we could hear them, but we didn't see one until we were leaving).
Maria after exploring the ski slopes that are about 50 feet to the left. No snow means no skiing, but the slopes were covered in wildflowers, which made her day. However, there is a Colorado law against picking the wildflowers, which she didn't like too much, but it is about keeping Colorado beautiful...
On our way to Mesa Verde to see the Native American dwellings!
A little anxious, Joseph?
Mesa Verde's namesake.
"Indian Paintbrush."
I think it's a pretty ingenious idea. That roof will last for eons!
I was charmed about the ceiling, still blackened by the home fires that once burned here. It is still being excavated, so there wasn't a whole lot of exploring we could do in the ruins.
There was a fire pit that we could climb into. John took the boys in, who loved it!
The mill station for the natives to grind their grains. I imagine this is where news traveled the fastest...
Thomas climbing a cool, gnarly tree.
And finally, the only picture I got at the sand dunes because my camera began to die. The little stream that ran through it was like a super-safe beach area for the kids to play. Maria and Joseph didn't want to leave the water, so John and Thomas hiked the dunes while Joseph and Maria got wet, muddy, and giddy about the whole thing. The scenery was surreal and gorgeous.
Sunday, 05 July 2009
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Next week, when I get back to PA, I am going to have a knock-your-socks-off picture post.
We spent the last week with John's family in Durango, CO. This required a drive across the continental divide. If life is about the moments that take your breath away, I am set up for several lifetimes. The only thing that could have possibly topped that drive was seeing my babies at the end of the day. Maria made the drive with us and she was amazing. She was amazing in the plane as well. But I hadn't seen the boys in almost a week and seeing them just made my whole life! They clearly missed me and I was humbled at how much they needed and missed their mom.
We spent our time up there visiting the Native dwellings in Mesa Verde, checking out the natural springs, fishing (John taught Thomas and they caught dinner for us that night, which was delicious!!!), shopping, and relaxing. On our way back from Durango, we took the kids to the Sand Dunes outside of Alamosa. They loved it! There was a little creek that ran along the outside of the dunes that the kids played in for a couple of hours. Thomas and John hiked halfway up the dunes after that while Maria and Joseph continued to play in the water.
Now we're camped out at my parents' place and the kids are contentedly hanging out, making mischief, soaking in time with their cousins, and loving the attention from their grandparents.
This may be the last time I blog for the next week or so. But I promise a big picture post.
Sunday, 28 June 2009
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Maria was fidgeting with her mouth a lot during Mass this morning. I was concerned that she may have been in pain, but she was cheerful, so I just tried to keep her hands out of her mouth as much as possible.
When we came home, I gently pulled up her upper lip and noticed that her stitches were gone. But what shocked me was that her gums looked pink, pretty, and perfect. They weren't the little festering pits of leftover surgery that they were two days ago at all! I'm stunned! She has healed at a tremendous rate!
Thank you all for your prayers! I'm truly dumbfounded!
The only thing that suggests she was anywhere near a medical facility is a bruise on the top of her hand from the I.V.
Saturday, 27 June 2009
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I have the world's worst headache and it is keeping me from sleeping.
Maria, on the other hand, is zonked in the middle of the bed in such a way that I couldn't fit on the bed if I wanted to.
(This is several weeks old. Right now, she's about two feet to the left an in her pyjamas, but you get the idea.)I love that girl!
She tried picking at her stitches today. That's pretty gross. I think they are itchy. I know mine were when I had dental surgery. Other than that, she's been entirely without meds and just bubbly and happy! She's my inspiration!
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John and I graduated from Benedictine in May of 2003, and married three weeks later. We've since grown as a family with our son Thomas, who is now 4, and Joseph, who is three already! Maria, our third baby and glorious addition, was born July 13th, 2007! We are Traditional Catholics dedicated to raising our children to revere and love the Traditional Mass.
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