Happy Long Weekend!

Wednesday Thanksgiving at my family's home in Longmont!
Thursday Thanksgiving at our home with Barry's family and everyone bringing their own creations.
Friday we had a nice day off and just stayed home.
Saturday we took a drive to Boulder to walk around, eat and shop.
Today I'm catching up on paperwork, bills, house...etc.. before a stressful long week. Better get back to it.

18 Month Celebration!!!

Cavyn and Adrian watching cartoons while mommies make (aka I eat) cake!

Imaginative Play with cars. Adrian makes driving sounds and pushe

s his cars on the floor! I remember my brother playing like this, lying on the floor at level with his toys.

Looks So Big! 11/20

He can pedal his tricycle or at least puts his feet on the pedals when mom pushes him around. He is a daredevil and stands on top of the seat holding on to the handlebars.

Adrian's 18 Months Old now! We had a cake and celebrated his 1/2 birthday. He's such a ham.

Updates and a half...

Recently (can't remember which weekend) went to the Denver Zoo on Free Day with Audra, Harlan, Fabien and Zachari! Adrian had so much fun looking at all the animals, it was hard to drag him from each exhibit to the next-he could have stayed there all year I bet!

Big Bear

Little Penguinos

What a long week...I applied for a caseworker position on 11/2 and interviewed on Wed 11/18. It would mean different work, whereas now I manage only a small portion of a case: supervision of visitation of parents with their children (when their children are not placed in the home and are instead in foster or kinship care) and Lifeskills education which can range from information and trainng on parentin skills to community resources. I have time to build relationships with families and research and teach what they need to know for their individual case. I work one on one with families for a few to more months. Right now I am a Lifeskills Specialist aka Case Aide (aide to the family not caseworker-fyi). I felt that the interviews went well and of course thought of things that I wanted to say and forgot during the interview but hopefully my resume will stand up for my other experiences. I am still waiting to hear back regarding the decisions. There were two openings. I am trying not to hold my breath but I can't wait to hear back!!! Work is well otherwise and either way I'll still enjoy my job!

More work news: I am going to TX for work. One of my families is split between CO and TX and this is just one responsibility of working with my families. Sad news is I will miss Barry's Christmas party on Dec 4th :( I'll miss my little baby-kins also but two long days and one night won't kill us.

Adrian is such a toddler. He is picking up words left and right. He says 'nice' 'cheese' 'down' 'done' and tons of 'B' words. It's his favorite letter and he even adds it to words that don't start with 'b'.

For those of you who want all the pictures since I don't post nearly as many as I take (yes I'm a picture taking memory making fanatic)-see snapfish.com account. Let me know if you want access to the baby's albums. I sent it out once before but it's been awhile.

Halloween Update

A scarecrow upducted my little turtle!

A Turtle!