Happy 3 Year Anniversary!

As Rose said recently it feels like we have been together forever and yet our wedding day seems like it was just yesterday. Such a great day! Thank you Rose for 3 of the best years of my life and I'm looking forward to many many more! Unfortunately I lost our camera but we just returned from a good trip to MA to stay with Pop and Mimi. Trout learned to crawl, and has been a terror ever since, we took him swimming a ton, ate a lot of ice cream, stuffed ourselves silly with sushi on Rose's birthday, did some hikes, watched the Tour and generally tried to relax and soak up some of that eastern humidity. Pictures wouldn't do it justice anyways... Pop and Mimi are great, Alford looks super and the house is really comfy and cozy now. We made a quick stop by Mom and Dan's in Hygiene as well and they are doing great too, just back from HI and with slowly fading tans. Rose and I are so grateful to everyone who has helped us out, shared the load and given us advice over these first few years of marriage (and parenthood). We couldn't have done it half as well without you. We are hoping that as Trout's first year comes to a close (he'll be one in two weeks!) our lives will start getting a bit back to normal and we can establish a little better balance for the years to come. New job, new house, new town and newborn has been a lot to handle over the last year...thankfully he is really cute! Good job Rose!!

Steamboat Summer Weekend

Trout's going to see ALL his grandparents in the next few weeks but here's a couple snaps for all the Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and bros (yo Kurt!) out there on Trout's hard hard lifestyle

Picnic in the park with Moms and Pops

Swing!

More swing!!

Rose has been toting him around in the Chariot more and more and Trout's neck no longer looks like it will snap under the weight of his little helmet (and huge knoggin)

Lunch of sweet potatoes in Lil Toots Park right off the bike path

Art Faire, or as my boss calls it "Crap on the Lawn". Krafts with a 'k' but they did offer funnel cake and we picked up a much needed ceramic garden gnome to replace our kidnapped Gnome Chomsky, gone missing from right off our porch...

Drinking some homemade rootbeer on the banks of the Yampa

1st Swim! Trout took to it like a champ. Very serious in his splashing

He's a bouyant little swimmer, could be the melon head (like father...)

Must splash!

Splashing is crucial!

Happy 4th

Trout not sure about all the fireworks and loud noises but he enjoyed our visit to Crested Butte for the 4th of July nonetheless. Rose got out on a great mountain bike ride every day as Matt recovered from the creeping crud and Trout and Matt did manage to get out for a 3 hour hike on Saturday. Happy Birthday America!