They grow up fast, don't they?

So this past week Mel and Peanut went to Arizona to hang out with Mel's family. The trip had two purposes:

#1. Allow the two of them to hang out with family, whom we don't see as often as we'd like. Mel's family had been wanting us to come out, especially since we missed the mini-family reunion last month. Plus, we'd been wanting to show off Peanut, since she becomes more awesome by the minute.

#2. Allow the two of them to actually see and interact with humans. Rob has been working some pretty long hours of late, and this week (and month in general) was going to be no different. So while he was putting in 14-16 hour days, why not let them have a little fun?

They had a grand ol' time with Lew Dog, Tauna, Emblebee, Bebo, Jen and the girls. But, much to Rob's surprise, Penny changed immensely while they were gone. First of all, she went from crawling a couple of feet to moving constantly around. Plus, when she left, she was almost bald, and now look at her! It's crazy. You're away from them for one week and all of a sudden they're off to college or something.

She leaves for a week and all of a sudden she's Rapunzel.


Robot and Frank are so glad to have them back, even if they have a hard time recognizing them. So let that be a lesson for you, don't let them out of your site ever again.

Christmas (a bit late)

I am retarded, and never finished our Christmas post (obviously).

So, now I am redoing it (for the second time), and instead of telling a story with words, I'll let pictures do the talking. We drove to Utah to spend Christmas with Rob's family, and had a great time. It was Penny's first experience with snow (as seen below!).

Click on the link to view our pictures so you can see some of the things we did. Most importantly we just were able to chill with family, and we all loved it. I know I'm lazy, but oh well, just deal with it.

Christmas Pictures

As a treat, I'll give you a sneak peek of some of the fun we had on the trip. Here you go.

Penny in her awesome snowsuit. She was not happy!


Rob in his new coach's shorts that double as Christmas shorts.
If this doesn't fill your heart with Christmas Joy in March, nothing will!