Hidden Treasures

There is something satisfying to me about cleaning a garage, or maybe it's just that I love it once it's clean. Today was actually kind of fun and it was the last part of the house that we needed to finish to feel like home. We've had some stuff in storage that we haven't opened up for a long time, and many unpacked boxes. Ellie was so curious, and had fun too.

Some of the hidden treasures we found:
1) All of my sports memorabilia I've collected since I was a kid. Everything from shoeboxes full of football cards, Starting Line Up figurines still in boxes, Sports Illustrated magazines in mint condition from the early 90's, autographed pictures, the giant SuperSonics pants that George Karl gave to me at a bball camp, and the list goes on and on.
2) All of my schoolwork, pictures, and stories from grade school.
3) All of the costumes Joni and I have collected over the years. The list includes some pretty cool costumes. Joni even had some of the costumes she wore as a baby, check this one out of Ellie in a time warp as Rainbow Brite, Glen should like this one.
4) Decorations we've had since we were married, including every single couch pillow we've ever had. I have to say I've been pushing to get rid of this stuff but Joni insists we'll use it somehow, somewhere, someday. One of my favorite's is a blanket that someone made for our wedding, it's really cool but has the wrong wedding date on it. We love stuff like that, kind of like the golden engraved room key we still have from our honeymoon that says, "Paul and Tony forever". The hotel sure messed that one up but we didn't want them to give us a new one, it was too priceless.
5) Old journals and books
6) All of our former license plates that we hung on our garage wall, including one of our old street signs (shhhh...don't tell anyone)
7) We found about 30 cans of tennis balls, I guess I never throw those things away. You can probably imagine it took us longer to clean up than expected because of all the distractions. Now that we sound like crazy pack rats I'll stop, but it felt like a satisfying day. After we finished we made stuffed french bread pizza, ended up being a pretty good day.

Finally, Joni was so mad that it was snowing, I was able to catch her air fighting...my favorite part is the elbow to the gut followed by a roundhouse kick

Ellie and I have been going a little stir crazy lately in the house, which you probably know if you saw the video on the previous blog. On the first official day of "spring" we got several inches of snow, and it just keeps on coming! We did have one nice day this week so I decided to take Ellie to the park to feed the birds and check out the playground. I kept trying to show her the cool slides and swings, but she was much more interested in throwing wood chips and trying jump off the bridge into the freezing creek. Not that I can blame her... she has yet to discover that not all water is as warm as bath water!


I was able to get one picture of us together, ONLY because she completely restrained by her carseat. She is quite the little mover!



I must admit I LOVE waking up to this little face every morning :)



We are the 3 Nevada amigos. Have a great day!

Blanket head

Our last 2 weekends have turned into sickfests. Last weekend I was down for the count with some major body aches and a cold that made me literally immovable for 24 hours. It took a few days to receover, and I was looking forward to a fun relaxing weekend when Joni went down for the count. I've never seen her so sick in my life. Fortunately Ellie has been okay so far, and I guess we are fortunate this all happened on the weekends. I think we are ready for some normalcy soon,

We've had some snow the last couple of days, can't wait for some sunshine but it still looks to be a few days. It's sad to see Ellie go to the windows and stare outside, she's pretty much covered every inch of this house. She's been our entertainment, and we are locked up inside it seems even funnier.

Before you accuse me of being an abusive father, know that Ellie put the blanket on her own head and laughed everytime she ran into something. Funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

Lobsters.

Today she makes horse noises.... in about 5 minutes she will leaving for college. Does anyone else think Ellie is looking way too grown up??? Paul and I agree she is like a new kid every 3 weeks.



It's been too cold and snowy to run outside yet here in NV. I have been having withdrawels from the indoor track at the Longmont Rec Center. In desperate need of a substitution, I attended my first spinning class yesterday and it was love at first... um, bike? SO glad I finally tried it!

March 1st means it's officially time Moore march madness bracketeering. I need to think long and hard about whether to pick out of loyalty (and lose as always) or go with some type of logical strategy. Let the games begin!

Joni

p.s. I know this post has nothing to do with Lobsters. I couldn't decide what to name it and that is literally the first word I saw when I looked around. Why not?