travis’s brain dump

Well, I have to say it’s about freakin time. I think this has been one of the driest winters (in terms of snow) I’ve seen since I left Georgia. LOL I really wish that we had more of this recent snowfall all over the winter. It was kind of boring this go around. Still, can’t say I’m bored with Colorado weather and at least we’ve been keeping some decent bases in the mountains to go boarding on.

However despite it being dry, it was good to see the weather finally dropping some much needed precipitation out there. January was horrible, February saw precipitation at .11″ out of the average .33″ and we sat in March all the way until last Thursday at trace levels with an average of .92″. Finally between then and now March is sitting at 1.62″ which is awesome.

Here’s some pics from last Thursday and Friday’s fun.

The best part? More is supposedly on the way as we roll into April! Hopefully we’ll be getting some more tomorrow and again this weekend. YAY!

I really hope this is the case. I’ve enjoyed getting in some late season snowboarding. Even Arwen has joined in on the fun.

Hopefully the poor kiddo can get cleared to come up with me again this next weekend. I feel it will be unlikely though since she broke her wrist last Friday. Crazy kiddo was jumping off the furniture and got herself good. We thought at first she had sprained it, however when she tripped and fell again Saturday it hurt her again just as much so we had it checked out. Still though, she boarded awesome on Saturday so who knows, maybe she’ll get to go up again despite having a cast on!

You know, I have to say I’m extremely glad to be back into a “normal” routine. There is only so much time off someone should take and I think I maxed it. lol I ended that vacation a wreck. The last two days have been nice getting back up at 430 in the morning to workout and being at work during the day. I miss hanging out with my family but my body is so much happier. It seems to be operating in a little smoother, albeit ready to shutdown by 8pm, mode.  Either way, it’s good to be doing some productive work again. I’ve come into the new year with new projects to get my butt in gear right off and so far, so good. Lots of fun things to work on.

So I’ve picked up Russian again. Hopefully this time I’ll get it to stick a little better and be able to use it more regularly since Amanda is interested in learning it. Due to the fact the kids will be raised bilingual in Spanish and English we have to have something to communicate in that they can’t understand right? lol It’s actually been pretty remedial throughout this first part of the course. I’ve blown through the first two units and have remembered most of the vocabulary and for a change I actually have the alphabet down pretty well. The hard part is that stupid grammatical nonsense. So frustrating but what do you do? I’ll get it. At least this time it’s much easier to remember where and when to change the last syllables of words. At the rate I’m going I should be finished up with Level 1 by the end of the week and be able to move on to Level 2. That’s where the big slow down will be, lol. I’m sure I’ll spend a good solid month on that.

In other news, the kiddo is getting huge. Well, both of em… Arwen is just a couple inches shy of 4′ (46″) and Travis is an inch shy of 2′ (23.5″).  It’s hard to believe she’ll be 6 this year and he’s going into his third month. The little guy is already trying to babble his head off sometimes. It’s amusing. I actually forgot how entertaining it can be to have a baby around.

Well, that’s about it for now.

Finally…  Winter is finally settling in and I can’t wait to get some more board time up in the hills. Goaling for twice this week and four times at least after Christmas hopefully. 

So this weekend was pretty productive and we were just under the wire with getting the Christmas lights up in time before a snow storm.  Sitting here now with -4 and watching it drop. I freakin love Colorado. Here’s the work so far.

I feel like I’m actually getting caught up. Just in time for some much needed time off work! So in catching up, I finally delivered on some more pics. You can find them in the gallery. A new section on my son and more additions to the misc category. Just a few but it’s additions none the less. Now I don’t feel like such a slacker. LOL

Anyway… workouts come early so this is a short post.

Having a baby. Dead serious. If you ever need time to fly by and lose track of the days that have past, having a newborn in the house will do it. I seriously can’t believe my son will be 3 weeks old tomorrow. It feels like yesterday. It’s probably due to the lack of good sleep and the holes in the memory that causes but wow.

I’m starting to have flashbacks of when my daughter was first born. I can honestly say I can’t account for the first 6 months of her life. I remember next to nothing about anything from that period of time. Pretty scary.

Anyway, having the new kiddo around is kinda fun. I feel sorry for poor Amanda though who has the worst sleeping schedule out of all of us. She’s been doing really good with though, I’m really impressed.

On another note. Started the second round of P90X this morning. This should be interesting since I’m switching up the workout times to early morning instead of after work. It’s just easier on my schedule and my body. When I get home in the evening, the last thing I want to do is work out after a day of dealing with my usual day of tasks and being gone from home for almost 12 hours. Early morning though seems to be the trick. I’ve got a friend of mine, Adam, who is joining in. I think he was successfully destroyed this morning, lol. Still, 4:30 am wakeups… *shudder*.

We’ll see how this goes.

Well that’s it in a nutshell.