Growing Like a Weed

I don't think I've posted any new pictures of Leo since we got him. I was looking back at old ones today and I can't believe how much hes grown. He'll be 15 weeks old this week and he already weighs 42lbs!!

Leo at 12 weeks old

Leo at 12 weeks with the red stool

Leo today, 15 weeks with the red stool

Mona my love and Leo. This was today, it's hard trying to get them to pose without taking a finger off to get the treat.

My little family minus Matt, the picture taker!!

Tex-Mex

Whats worse than going through coke withdrawl??? Tex-Mex withdrawl. While living here I've tried no less than 5 restaurants where people have SWORN they have good mexican food. Sadly it's a disappointment everytime. I could get something that tastes better at Taco Bell. How do these people live without flavor?? For Valentine's Day I had pizza fedexed from Pennsylvania for Matt, I'm thinking it's time to do the same for me. I emailed Joe T Garcia's and Abuelos seeing if they could do something for me. Keep your fingers crossed.
Tasteless in Seattle.........

8 Days Sober

Thats right. I'm 8 days sober. Free from coke and I don't mean powder, I mean coca-cola. I don't remember when my addiction started, but boy what a tasty one it was. It's not like I drank a ton of coke a day, but I always had to have 1.
I'll miss you coke. Your delicious, golden, bubbly burn on the back of my throat.

Snowboarding

Matt is a really good snowboarder.. I've wanted to try it for a couple of years, esp since some of the family goes on snowboarding trips and has a great time. So yesterday Matt and I got up at 5:20 and headed out to Crystal Mountain. It's about 2 1/2 hours away from where we live. Matt checked their website and it said conditions were a 9 out of 10! How exciting. We get there, get my board and boots rented and we're on our way. Let me remind you I've never even been skiing. We get in line to catch the ski lift, I'm suppressing my fear of heights and prepare to catch the lift. The first one hits me on the side and knocks me out of the way. Matt catches it along with some other guy. Ok, no time to recover here comes the next one, hits me again. Finally I get on the next one, throw the bar down, pray I don't fall out and laugh out loud because that could only happen to me. I'm too sore to remember most of the day. It went a little something like this. Up down up down up down up down up down up down. Sometimes I'd finally stand up only to fall right back down. Matt was such a gentleman, trying to teach me. The funniest part I think was after Matt wiped snot off my face. I wasn't aware it was there and he said something like he didn't know he was taking his 6 year old snowboarding! haha I only made it down twice. That took about 3 1/2 hours. I should have kept going, but my body was so beat up and it was getting colder. I don't know if Matt will ever take me again, but I hope so- the times I was able to go about 4 seconds without falling were really fun!