HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We just wanted to wish you all a very happy and healthy New Year.
Here are a couple new pictures, the one with the hoodie is from Rio's first run at the beach, she is up to 1 hour so we are very happy with her progress so far, the next one is Rio at Pete's coffee with Uncle Selko apre run.
The other is a smiley shot, she thinks I'm funny.
More coming soon.

Our first restaurant outing

Rio made it through her first restaurant experience like champ. We went to Tara's, our local Himalayan restaurant (what, don't you have yours?). We eat there often, and have gotten to know the staff so we felt it would be OK even if Rio began to cause a scene. It's a nice mellow place, kinda dark with Himalayan music playing so it makes for a really nice place to take a nap. Perfect. There was not a peep out of her, she slept the entire time we at the table, all much to the dismay of the employees who had been trying to figure out which one of them would get to hold her if she began to cry. It was really nice to just go out and grab a bite to eat, I think that we are finally getting to our "new normal" and are comfortable getting out and doing whatever we want to do. The hardest thing to do seems to be exercise, motivation has been a bit low but I think that we are coming back around. Mel has started doing baby boot camp with miss Rio in tow and I just registered for a 1/2 marathon Feb.1 so we hope to be back on track in no time.
We hope you all have a nice Holiday and a Happy New Year! We hope to see everyone soon.
Love ya.

Getting bigger

Rio is now 6+ weeks and we are all pretty well settled. She now weighs over 9 lbs and is generally a happy baby. We started taking her out more, which has made life a whole lot better, it was hard being "stuck" inside for those few weeks but things are a lot more fun now. Well here are a few new pictures.

Thanksgiving

Rio's first Thanksgiving has come and gone, we had a great time. It has been a quite a while since my whole family has been in the same room at the same time so I think we all really appreciated the time together.

It was really nice to see how excited Kasey and Cooper got to meet their new baby cousin, they both seemed to take a real liking to her right away.

So everyone is gone and we are just starting to go through the pictures from the last 2 weeks. There are more to come, just wanted to post a couple of new ones for everyone to see.

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving as well, hopefully we can all get together soon, Rio still has many people that she wants to meet.
We miss you all, Love ya.