Couple and Their Infant Daughter Missing From Cyberspace

Many of you have noticed that Scott, Amaya, and I have been missing from cyberspace for nearly a month now. But we are back. Yeah! Our computer locked up back in mid-October, and long saga short, we are finally back online. Thanks to Best Buy, the Geek Squad, Cox High Speed Internet, Gateway, and the huge dent in our back pocket. Smile, smile. LOL. Technology can be grand, but it can also be a bit too grand. We ended up needing a new tower. So we thought, heck, that's not so bad. But, our wonderful new tower, with the latest technology, Windows Vista, caused us to need new this and new that due to incompatibilities between "older" hardware designed for Windows XP. By "older" I am referring to our 1 year old Linksys modem and 1 year old Linksys wireless usb adapter, among other hardware and software all less than or equal to 2 years old. Crazy. Anyhow, I will finally get some Halloween pics posted on our blog, with an update of course, and I will get back to my usual blogging frequency. Thanks to all of you who've been concerned over our cyber-absence.

Love always,
SBandA

P.S. F.Y.I., in case any of you are shopping for a new computer also, we learned through our computer fiasco, Dell is sooo not the way to go, computerwise. Over and over it was recommended to us that Gateway and HP are the way to go right now. No one was surprised our computer "went down" after less than 3 years when we told them we have a Dell.

Sedona: Beautiful Scenery & Pink Jeep Tour

Sedona: Beautiful Scenery & Pink Jeep Tour cont.

Playdate with Will

Later that same day...date #2- Jaxon.

The happy family. Congrats John and Erin!










A close-up of Amaya's newest playmate, Jaxon Carter.

Amaya seemed enthralled with Jaxon. She got all excited when she saw him. Here they are together.

More "Swimming" Pics

Amaya has proven to definitely be a water baby, as we suspected from the beginning due to her love for bathtime and for pooltime. Survival swimming lessons continue to go well. Amaya mastered her float early on, so now she is working on mastering her rollback. This has proven to take longer than mastering the float, because Amaya doesn't mind being face down in the water. She looks around when face down as if she has on a snorkel and a face mask. She has done her rollback on her own here and there, but is not consistant with it. We're anticipating mastery of that skill in the next week or so. Amaya has also shown us why we are taking her to survival swimming classes. Prior to her lesson one day, she was eyeing the pool and water. She pulled herself over to the edge and peered into the pool. The instructor had me let her be. She wanted to see what Amaya would do. Sure enough, she lunged into the pool. The instructor was there to catch her so as to prevent Amaya from a shock as she hit the water. But it just goes to show the curiosity of children and abilities of even infants. Stayed tuned for a video clip from Amaya's graduation day (from phase 1 of her swiming lessons).

Spending Time With Dad

What a way to nap!







Later that same day...all played out again.









Yum, that looks good! What's that you're eating dad?

Well, if you're not going to share, I'll just eat your plate.