Happy Birthday Olivia!

Still one of my favorite pictures of Olivia

Holding her head up high!

Such a lady!

Today is Olivia's 1st Birthday! And what a year it has been. Born 17 weeks too soon, lost her twin brother Logan, spent 105 days in the NICU...still she perseveres. Olivia, may your next year be filled with love, laughter and learning as you grow and develop into a toddler. And may your first cold be over swiftly!

Bad Blogger!

Yes, I know, I've been slacking in the posting lately. I have no excuse. I haven't been in Japan protesting dolphin hunting or negotiating world peace at the United Nations. Nor have I been busy learning nuclear physics or how to speak Mandarin. I've just been incredibly lazy. Surprise, surprise! I did go to Texas last week for my grandparents 60th Anniversary. I'll post pictures someday I suppose. In the meantime, here's some pictures taken last year in Texas. I like these pictures better anyway since I weighed about 20 pounds less.

Social Interaction

Andrew and I went to River City Brewery on Saturday for Marilee's 30th Birthday party. Amazing feat really. I had a good time, but as always in social settings, I was anxious and not entirely comfortable. It seems I'm getting worse as I get older. We left after dinner while the rest of the bunch went on to the bars for lots of drinking. Not a smart idea for me anymore as every time I drink now I have periods of blackout. Alcohol no longer mixes well with my antidepressants and social anxiety. Okay, so it never really did, but I could at least pretend it did. Now...not so much. Just wanted to post pictures to show proof that I do actually venture out occasionally.

Skydiving Pics

Getting harnessed up!

Marilee just got done!

I'm ready for 10,000 Feet!

Landing in the Grass

Mark, my professional jumper

Totally worth the wait

Life From 10 Thousand Feet

Yes, I'm alive! And, yes, that's me skydiving! I will post more pictures later, but I just wanted to do a quick post in case anyone was wondering if I died or not. Yes, the chute opened! It was awesome. My favorite part (of course) was the free fall when we first jumped out of the plane before my dude pulled the chute. I could do that all day. The only downfall to the day was that it had to be the hottest day of the year thus far, and it took 6 hours to get done!!! Two tandem jumpers went at a time, each time took about 30-40 minutes. Then a group of experienced single jumpers got to go up in between each group of tandem jumpers. I didn't get done until after 3:30 (we got there at 9:30). Andrew, my parents and my brother came to watch me, which was great. More pics later...

CF Husband Goes Bald

Head on over to Nate's blog and check out what he's up to now! If you can donate to the cause, please do! I did. Not only will you get to watch Nate shave his head next week if he makes his goal, you'll also be helping out a really great cause, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Good luck Nate!!