Aging sucks.

So, this past weekend, we went to the eye doctor for some pretty overdue visits. Larry's got nasty horrible vision, and surprisingly, his prescription didn't change very much since his last checkup almost 10 years ago!

My vision isn't horrible, my lenses have always been fairly thin, and my script hasn't changed much over the last 10 years at all. Until now. :( Not only was this my biggest vision change, but the doctor told me what I already suspected...I'm going to need freaking bifocals in the next couple of years.

Happy freaking 38th birthday to me! LOL!!

At least bifocals are better looking now than they were several years ago! :)

Ok, Ok, so I suck at this blog thing!

LOL! I really should just set one day a week to do this, since I obviously can't do it daily, let alone monthly!

Anyway, we've just been super busy with school, working on the house, sight seeing, day to day stuff. The girls are doing really well, only a month left of preschool...Waaaaaaah! No breaks for me until they go to pre-K in August! lol! We signed them up for Kinder-Baseball, which is a program that will teach them the basics of baseball along with building foundations for teamwork. They start that in June. Larry and I have been working with them a little bit in the afternoons, and we think Emily's going to make a great cheerleader! ;) Sarah seems to have more of our athletic ability, so there's hope yet! :)

Emily running away from the ball!

Sarah looks like a natural!

We also went to the Denver Botanic Gardens, and Opening Weekend at Coors Field earlier this month (all in the same weekend!). The Botanic Gardens were neat, but I need to go back in a few months when things are blooming.

Opening Weekend at Coors Field was fun! We went to the 3rd home game of the season, and got to see the NLCS ring presentation! That was really cool to see! The girls are now die-hard Rockies fans! lol! We bought Emily a Todd Helton shirt, and Sarah a Troy Tulowitzki shirt! They really got into the game (and REALLY got into the eating as you'll see in the pictures!), and they made it all 10 innings! That was my biggest surprise! We got there 2 hours before the game even started, so it was a looooooooong day for them!

It's crazy, but we've been here in Colorado for almost a year now!! Time is flying way too fast!!

Pictures and Flu and In-Laws OH MY!

It's been a crazy 10 days or so here! First, Emily came down with the flu a few days before her birthday, and is only just now getting back to normal. Sarah tried and fought so hard not to get the flu, but she came down with it the morning that my sister-in-law and brother-in-law were flying in from California for the weekend! We also had their 4 year professional portraits in the middle of all this too! It's now Monday, the girls are about 99% back to normal, and the in-laws should be landing at any second, back home in California! :(

Some pic's from our week/weekend!

Girls ready to go take birthday pictures!

We're 4!!

Sarah:

Emily:

Playing pool with Uncle Eddie:

Opening gifts with Aunt Mary!

Feeling better and ready to go out for breakfast!

The Girls are 4!!!

Wow, where has the time gone? This is just crazy that my babies are 4, and are barely a year away from Kindergarten! Anyway, I want to wish them a very Happy Birthday, and share some pic's from the past 4 years!



A few days old, Sarah on the left, Emily on the right:

1 year old! Emily on the left, Sarah on the right:


2 years old, Emily on the left, Sarah on the right:

3 years old, Sarah on the left, Emily on the right:

Today, 4 years old. Emily:

Today, 4 years old, Sarah:

Kung Hei Fat Choi!!

Happy Lunar New Year everyone!

Welcome to the year of the rat!

Some interesting information for those of you not familiar with Chinese New Year (or Lunar New Year as it's also called): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year

May you have much happiness and luck this year! :)

Whew, computer is all fixed!

After an hour and a half on the phone with Linksys, my internet connections are restored. I thought we were going to have to call 911 for me there a moment when they reset my stuff, and I had NO internet whatsoever! I was about in tears! LOL!!!

All is well in the Chei house...Michelle has her lifeline restored! :D

Help!

My desktop doesn't want to connect to the internet, and I don't know how to fix it! :( Anyone know how to reset a Local Area Connection? Waaaaah! Thank goodness for the laptop!

Now THIS is why we had children!

:)












Please don't call Child Services on me! :D

Where we've been, and what we've been doing!

So, it's been ages since I've written anything. We've just been crazy busy between school, the basement being finished, Christmas, and now we're back to birthday's and Chinese New Year again! Where has the year gone??!! I'm going to try to keep up my blog again, we'll see. I'm not making any promises! ;) Anyway, I'll start with the big stuff here, our basement is done! It took just under 2 months, and knock on wood, it went very, very smoothly. Only minor issues that were immediately resolved, and we are thrilled! Larry's down there working while the girls are playing Wii as I type. I'm savoring the peace & quiet at the moment upstairs on the main floor! :) Here are some before and after pictures!



The bedroom before:




The bedroom after:



The "family room/entertainment area" before:

After:

Pool table/dartboard area before:

After:




Wetbar and bathroom areas before:

After:







So, in a nutshell, we've been mega busy with all that, and now we've been shopping every weekend non-stop to furnish and decorate it since we're basically going to live down there now! lol!!! I'll update again soon...really. ;)

I need a "happy" post right now...

So, I'm just going to name 10 things I love right now.

1. My family of course.
2. The "smell" of the air here in CO. Those of you in SoCal back home, wow, it's nice to inhale without hacking up a lung!
3. Seeing bunnies and deer and whatever other animals that just wander the neighborhood!
4. FALL! Holy crap ya'll, we have FALL here! The leaves are changing color and actually FALLING off the trees! lol!!
5. October baseball...especially this season. We think we're completely responsible for the Colorado Rockies being in the playoffs...they sucked 'til we got here!
6. The artwork and projects the girls bring home from preschool.
7. My Hula Girls. Ya'll are my rock, my inspiration, and my best friends in the world. I love you all!
8. Fresh Baked Cookies. I got up the guts to finally bake in this altitude, and they came out AWESOME. Helluva lot better than any store bought crap! lol!
9. My DVR. Yes, it's silly, but since the girls have been born, it's impossible to watch any T.V. that's not Noggin, Disney, PBS, or Sprout. Since we got our DVR here, my fat lazy butt has gotten to see all kinds of shows!
10. Bob. You were so instrumental in bringing Larry and I together, and I'll never forget that, or you. You stood up for me, you protected me like I was your own child, and you gave me away at our wedding. I love you and will miss you always.

A very sad day.

I just learned a few hours ago that someone very close to me passed away. On October 9, 2007 Bob Freeman lost his battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). Bob was a wonderful, funny, smart, and beautiful person. He gave me so much, taught me so much, and he will be sorely missed.

I love you Bob.

So, I've totally been neglecting my blog...

You'd think it was because we moved, and I'm busy unpacking and decorating, right? Yeah, not so much. We did paint all the bedrooms in the house before we moved in, and moved most of our junk in ourselves before moving day.

Since moving day, I've unpacked and put away most of our necessity stuff, and was concentrating on the visit from Mary & Eddie (SIL & BIL for those who don't know). We had a great visit with them, although it wasn't long enough!

Of course, the other things in life that have kept me from busting butt on this house are the fact that the Rockies have made an unbelievable run and are in the playoff's (have the game on as I type), and the fact that we have a DVR, which of course means I can record shows and watch them at my leisure (i.e. no kids around).

Sigh. I'm so sick of boxes (been in them for 6 months now!), yet I have no motiviation to get moving on it! I keep looking at my boxes marked "Christmas", knowing I can get them out of the garage and into the basement, but I just think "gee, in a few more weeks, I'll be needing them back upstairs". ;)

I finally just started calling people to get estimates on our basement too. I'll be blogging about that and showing the progress of it. :) As long as I keep motivated! lol!

In the meantime, Go Rockies!

Timing is everything...

We've gotten so lucky in the past several years with timing, that it was bound to catch up with us.

We bought our first home just before prices went through the roof.
We sold our first home just before prices went down to the cellar.
We moved just before school got out in CA and started in CO.

And now we're getting ready to move into our house....sounds great right? Too bad I fell off the porch last Saturday and very badly sprained my ankle. >:( I've been out of commission this whole week, and poor Larry's been going between the apartment and the house after work to finish up what I should have had done this week.

This sucks.

First Day Of School!!!

Well, it's here, and it's almost over...I'm leaving in a few minutes to go pick up my not so little babies anymore! They did great this morning when we left them there, barely batting an eye at the fact that Mommy and Daddy were walking out the door! I was fine until we got outside, and then I lost it, and just cried, and cried for about 15 minutes straight. I've had a few moments of crying again all this morning, but overall am OK.

Here's some pictures of them on their big morning! I'll add more later once I pick them up and see how their day went!