The Spirit Moves

So I went to a Confirmation tonight for students at St. Joe's and St. William's. I love Confirmations. I love Bishop Sklba. What a wonderfully spirit-filled night. Congratulations to the students who were confirmed tonight.

I guess I knew that it was a short week on Tuesday but I never thought Friday would sneak up so quickly!

And for a final thought tonight before I head up to bed:
Nothing better for dinner than a big bowl of ice cream!
Now that is what I call
Living the dream!

Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?

I ran I went out for a leisurely run and it was fantastic. One of the most brilliant feelings is cruising along and feeling good while running. This was the first of many training runs. Lakefront Marathon is in October and my official training begins on Monday!

The school year is finishing up and things are coming to a very nice close. I look forward to my summer with my daughter. We are going to have all kinds of fun and get into all kinds of trouble.

Brewers have dropped the ball lately though, I was at school while they played today and have not yet looked at the score. **Crosses Fingers** Ughhhh. They lost 3-2. Whelp, it's a long season.

I planted last weekend. We have tomato plants, and hot peppers. Salsa city, here we come!

Salsa city=
living the dream

Annnnnnnnnnnnd she's famous!

That is right folks, Clarebear made the homepage of our photographers website as well as the newborn section. I think it is because she is just so darn adorable.

http://www.caseybowerphotography.com/index2.php?v=v1

By the by, if you are looking for a good photographer... Casey was great!

In those photos, Clare appears to be
living the dream.

Happy Memorial Day Weekend

So Parra did not exactly have a stellar night last night but luckily this guy is planning to whomp the twinkie hitters tonight!








Well, tonight is date night! We have a student from the better half's place of employment coming to watch the little one tonight and I think we are going to go rock climbing. I think I have put on about 20 pounds and lost about 98.8% of my forearm strength since the last time we have gone so this should be entertaining.... picture me falling off the side of a climbing wall and Elizabeth getting scooped up in the air by my weight on the other end of the rope... the two of us suspended in mid air with our respective ends of the rope getting more and more twisted as we writhe in goofy laughter.

You too could go to Adventure Rock someday and be
living the dream!

What better to come home to?

How cute is she? This is the cutie
that I came home to tonight.
Can life get better than this?
I submit that it cannot!

In news other than baby news, the Brewers are back and although I was upset that we would lose my boy Rickie Weeks, Gamel proved, in his first game, that he comes to play hard. I hope he keeps it up .

Some of you know that I have signed up for the Lakefront Marathon again this year. "Big Tuna," a buddy from school, and I will be running this October (provided we both follow through on training). This will be Tuna's first marathon and it will be an honor to run it with him. So if you are tracking the training log, you may see that my last run was quite a while back. The challenge for me will be to actually run after Clare is in bed for the night. That means not running until as late as 7:00! This could be interesting.

On the 18 week training plan, I should be starting to train on the 31st. That is a goal.

The flowers are blooming out in front of the house and there is something so wonderful about taking Clare out on the front porch and sitting, enjoying the breeze.

Talk about
living the dream!

My Fingers Were Broken... I Couldn't Type!

Ok, that is not true. I have just neglected the blog. At least I had a good excuse... I was hanging out with my daughter!

So Clare is four months old now and is as cute as ever. "Prove it" you say?

So there!

She is four months old and I will try to catch you up in a hurry:
She loves to eat her fingers
She has grown three+ inches
She had hair, lost it, and it is growing back
She loves baths and long walks on the beach (or outside in general)
She has a new cry (I call it the "I think I'm dying " cry)
She has a strong neck but hasn't quite rolled over.
She has finally grown out of some clothes (the newborn ones)
She spits up and pukes a lot (we call her vesuvius or blowhole)
She like to get raspberries on the tummy
She loves to be super-Clare (held as though she is flying)
She still has those gorgeous blue eyes
Sometimes she sleeps, sometimes she doesn't
She drinks bottles like a champ
She loves her mommy
She is grabbing things now (like toys and hair)
She is sleeping in her crib now (instead of her bouncy chair)
She loves being outside
She was baptized last week
She likes to go to church
She likes to nurse
She loves me!

SO now what you have been waiting for:
Baptism day with Mommy

With her Godmother

Old photo but a favorite


So yeah, you could say I've been
living the dream.