Devo's Got the Sniffuls

Our sick child now has a sinus infection. He's been on two different antibiotics, and is still a snotty boy. He's definitely recovering, but poor thing's always got something going on - allergies, heartworm, skin wounds, the list goes on...

Klondike & Snow

While mindlessly watching YouTube videos, I somehow got on a  polar bear tangent and then remembered Klondike and Snow. If you were in Denver in 1994, chances are you remember the adorable polar bear cubs that were abandoned by their mother at the Denver Zoo. They were soo cute. I even bought a stuffed plush toy of Snow, and thinking it might still be at Mom's house somewhere. 

Apparently they are still doing well 13 years later and living at the Orlando Sea World. Their mother Ulu died in 2000, and their father died last May (almost a year ago).

Here's a sweet video montage of them. 

While I'm on the subject of species on the verge of extinction, remember that tomorrow's Earth Day. 

Yes We Can

Obama the icon. 

I was on Vecteezy looking for inspiration for a project I'm working on and came across this great vector image of Obama. Here's my version (I just deleted some of the other graphics).

It's free to download. Check it out here

Fun in a Hammock

Love My Colorado Girls!

I failed to make a post after my trip to Colorado trip back in October last year (5 months ago), but I cannot let these photos go unnoticed. They are just too good! I made a short weekend trip but managed to get a great night out with my very close friends Anne, Andrea and Marti and their beaus Eric, Austin and Eric (yes, two Erics). My good guy friends Matt and Dennis also showed up for dinner at the Rio, but unfortunately I didn't get a photo with them before they were on their way. 

Anyway, here are some moments in time that night of us having fun, making stupid poses/faces and dancing for the camera. Love you guys and can't wait to see you in May!

Yoga

This morning Jeff and I went to our ritual Saturday morning yoga class, followed by our ritual coffee at the coffee shop down the street. 

Since November of last year, Jeff and I decided that it would be great to start up a yoga practice. So, we enrolled in a beginner Hatha series at YogaYoga and it has stuck ever since. Like anything, we've had our ups and downs practicing it more some weeks as opposed to others. But I've noticed how it's really helped me in so many ways. I missed a week of it and realized how much it really helped my sanity. Every time I leave a yoga class I feel more at peace with myself and my surroundings, my mind is at rest and my body feels alive. 

Not only has it been great for our minds and bodies, but yoga has become a great way for Jeff and I to explore something together as a couple, which has enriched our relationship tremendously. We both had mutual interest in trying it out and have kept the interest after several months of practice now, and I'm thankful that we can both look forward to sharing the experience together. 

Next week I'll be trying another beginner series in Ashtanga yoga, and I'm really excited about learning another form of yoga. There are so many forms of yoga, and so many approaches to it, that it has been a great learning experience. It's not about getting your body into a pretzel and becoming a new age hippie, like most of us initially assume. It's so much more. Each practitioner and each class bring something new to the table. I've learned how to relax, how to breathe, how different poses affect your body (even your bowel movements!), where I am strong, where I am not so strong, where I'm flexible, where I'm not so flexible... I've had practitioners incorporate chanting, poems, physiology, mantras, and even spirituality to a certain extent. I look forward to doing prenatal and postnatal yoga when and if I get pregnant some day, and continuing the practice throughout my old age.  There's even pet yoga; although, even being the pet lover I am that might be where I draw the line. 

Here's a great article about yoga and pets.