Belly pictures

As requested, here's a few belly pictures.

Here I am at seven months:

At five months:

Nursery funiture

We finally got it all put together- the new nursery furniture is completed! Directions said 45 minutes is the average time- ha! The amoire took a few hours....plus a few days, since the inside shelf had been installed upside down, and Jeff was so disgusted that it took a few days for him to work up the nerve to go back and take most of it apart to fix it. But the rest of it went pretty smooth with us working together to finish it up. Here's the pictures.

Hiking at Stowe

Last weekend was beautiful, so Jeff & I went for a nice hike in Stowe. We went to Moss Glen Falls, then continued walking down a nice wide path. Blue loved it!

Here are some pics we snapped.

Snowboarding in the Alps

Here we are, snowboarding in the Alps! Check our Euro style (well, Jeff's boots anyway).

(This is Heather, chasing down the old guy who sprayed her with snow while she was sitting down waiting for Jeff.)

In Innsbruck

We made it- we're in Innsbruck and Jeff is already hard at work. The flight was really good, Jeff brilliantly asked the gate attendant to put our seats together (they were charging a $30 fee at check in). At first they told him that he would have to wait until boarding time to change our seats- we were in the four seat aisle rows sitting in front and behind one another. After waiting patiently until boarding, Jeff asked again to switch our seats and although the seats together were all taken, the attendant put us into a row by ourselves and blocked off the row so that no one else sat there. I was able to actually lie down and sleep on the flight. We picked up our cute rental car at the airport in Munich to make the drive to Innsbruck. Well that was one hell of a drive. The 1.5 hour drive took us 5 hours. We were stuck in stop and go traffic the whole way. And being exhausted and stinky, we were dying to just get there already! Finally we got here, but it took us quite some time to locate the hotel. Some roads aren't marked, others change names constantly, and us not sprechen die deutsch, made for a challenge. But we made it though and settled in for a long sleep. Woke up at midnight and had some pizza from room service and back to bed. I'll leave our fun Sunday excursion for a future post.

My links! My links!

I had to write a post with links to all the interesting articles I've read lately.

1. Eco/green snowboards- who knew?
2. We have some great food here, in backwoods Vermont
   
3. Cheap online books, offered for as little as one penny, are putting bookstore out of business (even the big chains)
4. Cloned pets?
5. 10 Best Books 2008
   

Blue takes over

Here's the email that was making the rounds at the Burton IT. Blue was left with co-workers while Jeff & I went Christmas shopping at the Burton store.

Subject: Welcome the New Addition to SD/MM Team

Wish him luck when you see him.