Flowers!

Kathi, Grace and Susie (magically from Europe?!) sent us flowers yesterday to congratulate us on our new jobs in Boston. It was so, so sweet of them! :) We love you guys!

Watching Marla

Our neighbor, Bri, is in Atlanta this weekend for a wedding so we are watching Ms. Marla. This was her passed out on the couch yesterday after a long day of playing with MacKenzie.
The two dogs just look at each other waiting to see who is going to attack first.
Marla taking another break on my white couch.
Now they took their fight to the bed. That's always my favorite spot- oh wait, NO!
The played on the balcony. Marla even unplanted some of my flowers for me- she's so thoughtful. ;)I made a quick video of the girls fighting on our bed. I love that my new iPhone has the video feature!

Happy Birthday, Grams!

Jackson, MacKenzie and I would like to wish my Grandma a very happy birthday today! We love you, Grams. We hope you have a great day!!

Jackson has a new job!

Jackson accepted a new position today with John Hancock in Boston! Yay! I'm so proud of you, Jackson!!

I fly out tomorrow morning on PriceWaterhouseCooper's dime. I will be looking at apartments tomorrow evening- hoping to find something quickly. My interviews are on Thursday morning and I head back to Denver that evening.

Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers as I travel, interview and hunt for a home!

Baseball Top 10

This is a humorous list that Jackson and I thought of while at the Rockies games that we attended this summer. We tried to make it David Letterman style.

10. Wearing the jersey or a hat of a team not playing in today's game (i.e. a Yankees outfit on your infant or a new Tim Tebow jersey- he plays football, folks, football. I know that being from Iowa is unfair- what with the lackluster education and all- but Iowa was not playing today so there is no need to represent them on your t-shirt) is not OK

9. Just because they're selling fried twinkies and chocolate-covered bacon at the ballgame does not make them acceptable as "ballpark food." That designation is reserved for brats, hotdogs, beer and peanuts.

8. If it is over 90 degrees and seriously sunny perhaps bringing your wife to the game in her 9th month of pregnancy-then telling her she is a wimp- is a bad idea (smooth move, dude in front of us, smooth)

7. Heckling the outfielder only makes him more motivated to hit homeruns. Silly Rockies fans. (See video from post below)

6. Coaching from in the stands is never, never, never appreciated. These players have coaches, managers, team owners, agents, wives, etc. all telling them what to do. Sit in the stands and hush. The powers to be at MLB will call you if they need your services

5. You could easily use the money spent on medical bills after diving for a "free" t-shirt to BUY said t-shirt at the gift shop

4. It is not OK to leave your seat 76 times during the game. If you're going to drink so much that you have to pee that much then just stay at the bar. Thank you.

3. The rows, seats and sections are all numbered. If you read your ticket, you will know where to sit. EASY AS PIE. (Except for the 678 people who could not quite figure that out today)

2. It is perfectly acceptable if you are the best player on your team to have Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA" as your theme song when you go to bat (Thank you, Troy Tulowitzki, for not taking yourself too seriously. I loved it!)

1. 90 beers+ 90 degree heat= vomiting in the stands followed by a police escort downtown. (Thank you to the guy 6 spots down from us for teaching us this lesson today. Get well soon, buddy. And while you're in the drunk tank you may want to find new friends as the ones who came with you to the game now hate your guts for their ejection from the facility.)

Rockies vs. Cubs

I seriously thought that this guy's shirt was meant to be profanity laced. As it turns out, Fukudome is a Cubs player.

Jackson was obviously very excited to have his picture taken.

This poor Cubs player was heckled insistently by the Rockies fans. Then he hit a homerun and shut them up! HA!

We loved watching this guy warm up before the game. MacKenzie would have LOVED to be in that ballgame.

The view from our seats. It was pretty nice.

We had to seek some shade because it was extremely hot today at the game.

We watched the warm-ups from the shade, too.

I quite enjoyed this lady's little broom. She brought it because the Rockies swept the series against the Cubs. At the time of the video, the Cubs were down by about 7 runs. The game ended with the Rockies winning 8-7. It was a great game!

I got sick of the Rockies fans talking stuff. I started out the game cheering for both teams, but ended up going back to my roots as a Cubs fan.

My 2 little loves

Kathi and Grace, being the kind people that they are, went to watch Baby Alex yesterday so that Kylie and Nick could go to a movie. Jackson and I are so lucky that our families live so close to each other. Our parents are all within an hour of Indianapolis and our sisters live about 5 minutes from each other down in Newburgh.

I just love these photos of Grace and Alex! Are they not the sweetest little things?!

Alex loves to jump! We watched him dance all around the other night on Skype.

Ms. Grace is looking fabulous with her summer suntan!

It warms my heart to see these two together!

Kathi sent me these photos this morning with a note saying that it should brighten my day after a tough week- she was right. I cannot wait to be down there in a few weeks to hang out with my 2 little loves in person! :)