A 31 Year-Old Beauty

Isn't she lovely? She's cursing at me as she reads this, but it was our dear friend Cara's birthday this past weekend and we celebrated in Jansen style....great food, Barbie running around accommodating to everyone's last need, knock out margaritas, boccie ball, ice cream cake and 50 conversations happening at one time. We love this group of people!

The kiddos at the birthday bash

Dude is now walking about 40% of the time. We're hoping that by the end of next week when we head to Chi-town that he'll be more secure in his new mode of transportation. He hasn't figured out how to stand up without using us or furniture as his support, so we anticipate great things once that happens.

What else is new and exciting in our world...Mile High Dad's commute is now costing us approximately a trillion dollars in gas per day, so naturally we're getting the itch to move closer to the city. After all, it's been about 2 years since we moved into our house, so we have to stay true to Vogel "we move every 2 years" style. That's not a very viable solution right now, but we still find ourselves on realtor.com quite often. I'm working 4 days per week as it wasn't possible to work from home with the dude anymore. We'll see how I feel in a few months about that much time away from our angel, who will be introduced to a day care center come September. Stay tuned to find out if he keeps his angel status after that introduction!