What's happening in my world…
Well, our plans are laid and we are heading to Walt Disney World in May! This will be the first time for Katie Beth to go into the parks.
During our previous visit, we did not go into the parks. Katie Beth had a blast during that trip. I can only imagine how much fun she will have on this trip.
It could be Katie Beth’s last plane flight prior to her turning 2 years old.
Our weather is wonderful after today’s storms blew through town. At +60° F, you can’t beat it.
Here is what the front looked like earlier:
It was not a bad storm, but it did dump a lot of rain quickly.
Katie Beth playing in the leaves at grandmother’s house.
She also played with granddaddy’s pond including throwing her soccer ball into the water.
Katie Beth had a great time at the playground with all the children. She has started really going around on her own.
Her face could be showing a little fear.
I have put together their schedule in iCal format so that you can integrate their game schedule into your calendar on your Mac or import into other things like an iPhone.
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You can directly view the calendar here: Browser Viewing
You can also download and import theHuntsville Stars 2009 Schedule into your calendar program.
I hope you enjoy.
Karen and I have started discussing our plans for a trip to Walt Disney World. Everything is up in the air, but our discussions have started.
Karen is wanting to shift back to our normal vacation time, which is during the International Food and Wine Festival, but we have points that must be used before June 1st. I would like switch, but how is the question.
Also, I think Karen is wanting to start going less often in which case we will have to rethink our point usage.
We have had a lot going on this past year with milestones going by, travel going everywhere, and more. Many of the links below are into our photos which require the username and password of “friends” and “photos”.
January
This year we had more family in town for new year’s day dinner. And, this was Katie Beth’s first new year day.
Karen’s niece, Lea Moore, visited with her boys, Aaron and Evan. We had a visit from Karen’s sister, Sharon Ronning, Destanie Hull came to help with Katie Beth for a week.
My January blogging will have more highlights.
February
We celebrated Katie Beth’s first Valentine Day. Katie Beth got to play in her first bubble bath, which was a lot of fun including eating the bubbles.
My February blogging will have more highlights including Karen’s surgery.
March
We cleaned our spa and Katie Beth decided to help. We took some nice family pictures. Katie Beth had her first St. Patrick day so we have her in green and happy.
We celebrated Katie Beth first Easter. Katie Beth tried apple juice for the first time and she reacted in the funniest way.
My March blogging has few entries for this period. I guess I was too busy with other things.
April
We had a great season of Huntsville Stars baseball and Katie Beth still loves going to the games and seeing Homer the mascot. Katie Beth had her first TV appearance. We took Katie Beth to the Big Springs park in downtown Huntsville, Alabama to see the ducks and fish.
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Katie Beth took her first steps. We finally got back to hiking since having Katie Beth. Katie Beth has started to feed herself.
We attended Decoration Day at Willis Chapel.
My April blogging will have more highlights including baseball and more.
May
We celebrated Karen’s niece’s college graduation. Vikki Hull graduated from University of Alabama in Birmingham. We celebrated Karen’s first mother’s day.
We took Katie Beth to Walt Disney World for her first visit, which included frequent blog updates over the trip. We celebrated Memorial Day with my parents and we took a family picture with Katie Beth in her sailor outfit.
My May blogging will give you more highlights of all the travel during this busy month.
June
Katie Beth has started learning how to feed herself with a spoon and fork. We started summer time with lots of swimming at the pool.
We celebrated my first father’s day. Katie Beth learned what fun can be had with chalk.
My June blogging is filled with posts about travel, baseball, beer, and many other things.
July
This month started out with Katie Beth’s big celebration of her first birthday. We celebrated the 4th of July all day; starting with a family picture and then with Allison and Steve Tofflemire at the Huntsville Stars baseball game.
For the rest of July, we were in Colorado Springs for my work, but we had a great time at the Garden of the Gods, the Rodeo Parade, the parks, the Sky Soxs Baseball, celebrating Karen’s ½ birthday, the concerts in the park, Uncle Wilbur (you just have to see it), the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, more Sky Soxs Baseball, another concert in the park, and hiking in Palmer Park.
My July blogging has even more activities including more trip details.
August
We celebrated our 12 Anniversary. My sister, Hope, came into town with her children, Hannah and Charlie. We celebrated Everett Grayson’s birthday.
We had won a prize of free passes to Point Mallard in Decatur, Alabama, which we went to this month. We celebrated my 42nd birthday.
My August blogging has even more highlights of this month including baseball, beer tastings, family and more.
September
Katie Beth is having a blast with our new bicycle seat for her. We are trying to take a family portrait every few weeks. Katie Beth moved up to the next size car seat and is facing forward. We attended the annual Alexander family reunion. We had great time at the Monte Sano Art Show with Katie Beth joining in on the jam session. Katie Beth has developed her “mean” look face.
My September blogging has even more highlights for this month.
October
Katie Beth had her first visit to the emergency room, because she pulled down our large gum-ball machine on top of herself. My work took us back to Colorado Springs so we played in the parks some and went hiking.
We had some snow while in Colorado Springs. Katie Beth had her first Tootsie Pop.
We had time to play in the fall leaves. We were in Colorado Spring for Halloween and we had a great time.
My October blogging was even more highlights including hiking, food, beer, and more.
November
We setup the Christmas tree earlier than normal, because we returned to Colorado Springs during November. We traveled by Amtrak train and I made lots of posts to my blog while traveling. We celebrated Thanksgiving day in Colorado Springs.
My November blogging show our trip to Colorado Springs via train and much more.
December
Karen made a snowman while we were in Colorado Springs. Our trip to Colorado Springs came to an end. We celebrated a lot of birthdays in December including my mother’s birthday, Karen’s birthday, and my father’s birthday.
Katie Beth was baptized. The Karen’s family came into town to celebrate Katie Beth’s baptism and exchange Christmas gifts. We celebrated our Christmas.
We joined my family for Christmas at my parent’s house. My Aunt Becky came into town over the holidays. We went to Allison and Steve Tofflemire’s house for their New Year’s Eve party.
The December blogging was highlights from our travels, the holidays, and more.
We had a great time at Allison and Steve Tofflemire’s New Year’s Eve party. Katie Beth lasted until around 9:30 or so, but she finally went to sleep. The company and food were both great, too.
We watched what is becoming a tradition to see the ESPN motorcycle stunt of jumping something big. This year it was Robbie Maddison jumping on top of a replica of France’s iconic monument, the Arc de Triomphe at the Paris Casino in Las Vegas.
We are back home after long trip to Colorado Springs for my work. My work was on FTG-05, which was a missile test. You can see more about it here.
You can see our journey on my blog here. Here are some high lights:
The only bummers is that we were always fighting off sickness during the trip.
Our train is near the outer parts of Memphis. Katie Beth is still sleeping.
We see the lighted bridges that span the Mississippi River.