Planes, Trains & Automobiles?

More like "Dogs, Baby and Automobiles" - yuppers...

Well, it definitely has been a while since our last update... Benjamin David is now 3 months old (as of 8 May), who would have guessed time could pass so quickly? I sure didn't!
We are all moved into our house (in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA!) - well, as moved in as we can be at the moment (still a lot of boxes to go through!). Will have some pictures up as soon as we deem the house "nice" enough to spread pictures around of, hehe.

Well, let's see - updates since we've been here... hmmm... New dog: "Sammy" a possible Lab / Beagle mix, we adopted him a week ago from PetsMart here in town:

We also had to buy a new vehicle (we discovered that her RAV4 was a little scrunched with two people and a car seat!), so we went and found a used 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee SE 4x4, 4.7L V8, with under 50K on it!

The Day we bought it - Friday, April 25, 2008

Oh yeah, having fun up in the mountains! It's a JEEP Thing!

Just a stroll at over 9,000 ft.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA!

Hey all, it has been a long time!
Well, we are BACK in COLORADO!!!!


Thats right. We officially moved into our new house (yes, and actual house - and yes, we own it - well, until the mortgage is paid off, haha)


We moved in around the end of March, and we are still unpacking - oh for Joy! The weather here has been incredible, we had snow fall even as of a few weeks ago, it was great. It is pretty dang windy where we are, but the view from our front door is amazing (a perfect view of Pikes Peak!)

Our First Family Portraits!

Benjamin David Salmoiraghi

February 8, 2008
6:04 p.m. EST
7lbs, 15oz
20.5" length

Update on "Amanda and the Great Pregnancy!"

Well, here is the story so far on Amanda and the birthing process on which she is participating on:

Wednesday
1855L.
Starts having contractions that are 30-60 seconds in length and 5 minutes apart. Darn right we got excited.

They last into late evening and sporadic in morning. Intensisty levels on scLe 1-10 are as high as a 6 at times.

Thursday
1030L.
She decides to get checked out to see what is our status with the actual labor. Go to base hospital and get turned into a cyborg for 20 minutes of monitoring. Then awesome Nidwife arrives.

Midwife does checkup; says Amanda is 1 cm dialated, 80% efaced (cervix ready for baby) and she could feel baby's head, meaning he is ready - just waiting for her body to be ready.

So, contractions were her body going into preperations for tv 'big game'

Says baby can be here tomorrow (Friday) or mid-next week. We go home :-)

Friday.

Mother-in-law is flying in.


More to come as it happens...


-posted by the addictive iPhone

Vegas Pics

Well, as you may (or may not) know, I was TDY to Nellis AFB, which basically is right next door to Las Vegas. So, I stayed at the Las Vegas Hilton (home to Barry Manilow, The Star Trek Experience, some unknown comedians, the guy who won "America's Got Talent" and a pretty good sized off-strip casino). Here are some pics of my adventures in "Sin City"...

Caesar's Palace

Me and the C-Man

The F-A-O Trojan Horse

Baseball's great disgrace - Pete Rose (at Caesar's)

The Venetian

The Rio


The "Strip"


Yup, his bar (& grille)


Sit Ubo Sit, good cat... (the MGM)


Oh yeah, and we visited the base, too...

Silent Monday?