HELLO

We think Cruz is saying his first word, "Hello"! It doesn't exactly sound like the way we say hello, but every time he picks up our cell phones, he yells...hewwooo into the phone....can you count a word when you are not totally sure what they are saying? Who knows, but I think we are going to count hello as his first word!! Cruz has really been jabbering up a storm lately, and it seems that he knows what he is saying. He also is waving again, bye bye, when he feels like it. We are trying to get him to do, "so big!" and he does this sometimes too. To get attention he likes to take his finger and run it up and down over his lips and make noise. He gets a big kick out of this. He likes to bit me, which isn't so fun. We have tried to say, "no bite". That doesn't seem to work too well. Then one time I started to fake cry and he started crying to, but then bite me again, so that didn't really work. Any suggestions?

We had a fun weekend. We went to our friends house that live up in the mountains. Shawn pulled Cruz the 4 miles up hill, what a stud! I skinned up next to them, but only pulled about 100 yards :). Shawn had fun doing a big jump that Marc had built. Daddy got some massive air, pictures to come. It was getting late so we decided to ski back down to the car...one major problem...the snow had set up already and there were 4 wheeler tracks in it, cat tracks in it...to say the least, it was so hard to slow down and get into a snow plow because the snow was hard as ice. Shawn actually tipped Cruz's little chariot once, but no need to fear, Cruz was o.k. We were all happy to get down to the bottom....our legs were on fire.

We also worked in the yard a little bit. My mom came over to help me prune some rose bushes. We have a whole row of rose bushes in the back of our yard that are so out of control. We were going to try and get to those, but it was a little overwhelming. We decided to hit the other bushes in the yard first. The back rose bushes might be a next year project!!!

Today roofers came to tear of our roof. When we purchased the home we didn't know the roof was in bad condition. We could repair the few places that have bad shingles, but all the roofers we got quotes from said we would have to replace the roof in a year or 2 anyway. I hate picking colors on a house that have a major impact on the look and feel of the house....it scares me to death because I don't want to ruin the look and it isn't a cheap thing to fix...so I am a bit of a nervous wreck today hoping we picked a good roof color~

I know this is kind of boring to read and I didn't attach any pictures. My blog for all intense purposes is our family journal. I plan on printing it into a bound book each year to keep track of our memories. So, I am trying to write about all the things that takes place in our lives.