Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Who are these people?

Ok, wondering who I know in the red bolded locations below? These are hits to my blog and I'm a bit confused? How do these strange people find my blog? I have my settings set to not be found via search engines. I really don't want to make it private as I believe it requires all viewers to have a Gmail account.....thoughts?

The date is the last viewed date followed by the number of times the location has viewed the blog.

Taylor, TX, United States Yesterday @ 9:04 pm 2
Plano, TX, United States Yesterday @ 6:35 pm 32
Newport News, VA, United States Yesterday @ 2:57 pm 76
Deer Park, TX, United States Yesterday @ 12:19 pm 6
Austin, TX, United States Yesterday @ 9:33 am 97
Spring, TX, United States Yesterday @ 9:17 am 336
Atlanta, GA, United States Yesterday @ 4:31 am 27
Colorado Springs, CO, United States 25 Apr 2011 45
United States 25 Apr 2011 76
Bremen, Germany 25 Apr 2011 1
Dallas, TX, United States 25 Apr 2011 94
Vancouver, BC, Canada 23 Apr 2011 5
Rochester, NY, United States 22 Apr 2011 1
Victor, NY, United States 19 Apr 2011 1
Irving, TX, United States 18 Apr 2011 8
La Porte, TX, United States 18 Apr 2011 6
Mississauga, ON, Canada 17 Apr 2011 1
Euless, TX, United States 15 Apr 2011 4
Coppell, TX, United States 15 Apr 2011 16
Los Angeles, CA, United States 14 Apr 2011 1
Pearland, TX, United States 12 Apr 2011 2
Reading, PA, United States 6 Apr 2011 4
Flower Mound, TX, United States 4 Apr 2011 10
Sint-michiels, Belgium 4 Apr 2011 1
New Braunfels, TX, United States 2 Apr 2011 1
Brampton, ON, Canada 24 Mar 2011 1
23 Mar 2011 7
Pasadena, TX, United States 18 Mar 2011 13
Beveren, Belgium 18 Mar 2011 22
New York, NY, United States 18 Mar 2011 6
Cedar Park, TX, United States 14 Mar 2011 1
Kaunas, Lithuania 14 Mar 2011 1
Tupelo, MS, United States 6 Mar 2011 1
Swansea, United Kingdom 5 Mar 2011 1
Longview, TX, United States 23 Feb 2011 1
Brussels, Belgium 22 Feb 2011 2
Melbourne, Australia 21 Feb 2011 1
Laguna Niguel, CA, United States 21 Feb 2011 1
Katy, TX, United States 19 Feb 2011 13
Itasca, IL, United States 18 Feb 2011 1
Allison Park, PA, United States 13 Feb 2011 2
Las Vegas, NV, United States 11 Feb 2011 1
San Diego, CA, United States 8 Feb 2011 7
Keller, TX, United States 8 Feb 2011 1
Tacoma, WA, United States 7 Feb 2011 1
Boston, MA, United States 7 Feb 2011 1


I just want to know who you are.....

Monday, April 25, 2011

Easter Weekend

We spent Easter Weekend at the Delta Lodge at Kananaskis which is about an hour West of our house. It is a larger hotel that is very kid friendly and is located in Kananaskis Provincial Park. There are several nice paved (& shovelled) paths to walk, lots of kids activities organized on Holiday weekends, and multiple restaurants on-site that offer kids eat free.


The Swans


The Jacuzzi Tub


Haley enjoyed playing on the step up to the tub

We opted for an Executive Suite as it was the only Suite available. (We prefer to have Haley sleep in another room so we can stay up past 7:30.) We had a good laugh when we saw our room had an elevated two person jacuzzi tub complete with surrounding mirrors and swan folded towels. Seems more like a Romantic or Honeymoon suite vs. an Executive one?

View from the Hotel grounds


Another view

We had a nice time enjoying the hotel grounds on Friday. Haley was so excited to run around outside and would run ahead, stop and turn to us and say "Come on guys. Are you coming guys?" It was so funny!


Haley & Steve enjoying the view at Bow Falls


Bow Falls


Bow Falls

On Saturday we headed into Banff. We spent some time at Bow Falls which was pretty cool to see frozen. Haley enjoyed walking on all the snow. We then had lunch at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in the Rundle Lounge. Yummy and a nice setting!


Haley & Steve working on the Easter Sticker Book that the Easter Bunny brought her.


The Easter Bunny


Ready to hunt for eggs


Found some


And more.

Sunday morning we visited the Easter Bunny in the hotel lobby. Haley was a sport and enjoyed sitting on his lap. The Easter Bunny gave each kid an Easter Basket filled with goodies which Haley thought was so cool. When he got up for a break for a few minutes, she was very concerned where he was going and when he was coming back. Next we participated in the organized Easter egg hunt. Haley had fun and found her limit easily! We then had a little wait before our reservation for Easter Brunch so we sat in the lobby and examined Haley's Easter loot. During this time, the hotel started to take down the set-up for sitting on the Easter Bunny visit from earlier and Haley was so upset (crying) that they were taking away the Easter Bunny's chair. She cried for about 5 minutes. It was so sweet!

All in all, it was a nice weekend to get away. We assume that it was our last weekend in the mountains and we had a great time! Haley asked Steve yesterday if we could go on vacation again soon.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Houston

So, this is my last of 3 posts for this morning. I wanted to officially announce that our relocation to Houston has officially been approved! Wahoo! Now to decide which part of the sprawling town to live in.....

18 Week Ultrasound

Spine

Both legs
Both arms


Heartbeat = 141 bpm


Head profile


Hand and fingers


Face looking straight on


More fingers


Feet


I had an 18 week ultrasound (routine) on April 12th. Steve & I both really love seeing these pictures! The baby was wedged in funny and the tech had a hard time seeing the head at first. Everything looks great. Measurements were good! We got to watch the heart beat which was really cool! And even though it was my Mom's birthday and she really wanted us to find out the sex, we declined. You will all have to wait with us until September 13th (or thereabout.)