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Cute Silas Stuff

January 24th, 2012

Tonight after dinner I announced that I would “pick up the table.” Silas, always needing to put his own 2-cents in, informed me with great concern that “pickup table hard.” He then offered to “help mama” and then proceeded to demonstrate how difficult this all would be by trying to pry up the table with his small chubby hands while making grunting noises.

Silly mama. What the heck does ‘pick up the table’ mean anyway? Why not just say what I really mean: Pick up the dishes….off the table! Sheesh, watch out. He’s on to me.

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

December 31st, 2011


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It’s beginning to look a lot like…

December 4th, 2011

Christmas! With chilly Tucson temps and snow in the mountains, this is as Christmas-y as it gets people. So before temps move back up to the low 70’s norm, we jumped on the moment and got our tree this weekend. Silas is going nuts with it all. The first words out of his mouth this morning from his crib were “TREE!! LIGHTS!!” I love it.



Snow in the mountains



Tree in the house



Silas looking at the tree with dad and taking it all in

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Mt. Lemmon Bouldering

December 2nd, 2011

Another outing over the weekend - this time a little bouldering on The Matterhorn.



The Matterhorn Boulder



Dried boogers, dried drool and a granola bar



Baby under the boulder



and on the pads - of course his favorite play area



Paul giving Jewel Thief, v10 a try



Setting up for the crux



Going big



Going down



And going home. After about a dozen falls from the top, it’s cold and getting dark. Pauls wants to try again this weekend but we might get shut down due to SNOW!!!! :D

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Mt. Lemmon Hiking

December 1st, 2011

A couple shots from a nice hike over last week’s Thanksgiving break.



The Marshall’s Gulch trail - our usual



Wonder what this sounded like when it snapped?



Never pass up a boulder that needs climbed



Silas agrees



…or a tree



Mama



Dad



Looping back on Mint Springs trail through the burned section

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Happy Thanksgiving

November 24th, 2011

…love Silas.

















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Hueco season is here and Silas is ready with a big-boy Puffy

November 9th, 2011

Sorry for the lack of posts. I will catch you all up very soon with lots and lots of cute Silas photos- I promise! In the meantime, here are some quick pics from last weekend’s trip to Hueco. I couldn’t bear to keep the red puffy pic all to myself. :-)



THE new red puffy pic



Paul bagging a repeat of Predator, v10 after his 4 months off rest period. Grrr - can this please happen to me?



Snack with Mama



Back to exploring



Dino climbs too



Silas’ secret passage



See Spot Run, v6



The gymnasium



Paul working out the enduro traverse Burn Baby Burn, v8



Car + scewdriver + dirt = awesome



my baby

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Happy 2nd Birthday

October 16th, 2011

Happy Birthday Silas!

Here are some pics from last weekend at the pumpkin patch and our birthday walk/hike this morning.



I’m two







Silas’ new wagon, a gift from his grandparents

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He Climbs (continued)

September 5th, 2011

A Mt. Lemmon hike sidetracked with a little baby bouldering. I promise this is not staged:



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Priest Draw Photo Shoot

September 4th, 2011






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