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She told me later she just really dug the British accent

Jason — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:20:47 +0000

Maya and I spent a little time recently catching up on old episodes of a web design podcast called Boagworld. They recently announced the show was ending, which is too bad, because Maya really liked it. I’ll still enjoy following all the cool stuff they do on Boagworld.com.

Keep Maya weird

Kari — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:56:00 +0000

I was looking through our photos and realized I never posted anything about our trip to Austin last month. Jason had a Saturday conference down there, so Maya and I tagged along for the trip. We stayed at the Omni just off 6th Street, so we were in the middle of all the action, even though we couldn’t quite take advantage of it like we might have a few years ago! But we had a great time swimming in the rooftop pool. (Note to self: The Omni is a little less family-friendly and a little more bachelor-party friendly later in the day.) So we kept most of our pool time to the early parts of the day. While Jason was at his conference, Maya and I took long walks, checked out Town Lake and Lady Bird Johnson Park and did a little shopping. We also grabbed smoothies and walked to the Capital from our hotel. I thought Maya should start her life off as a good Texan.

But the highlight was definitely Friday night when our friend Joaquin was sweet enough to drive up from San Antonio to have dinner with the three of us. As always it was great to see him and so fun for him to meet Maya for the first time.

Hope we can get back to Austin again soon. It really is a city filled with energy.

Maya likes to eat

Jason — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:34:44 +0000

We’ll spare you the hour-long ordeal, but here’s a fun little part.

Grandad’s pool

Kari — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:37:31 +0000

The three of us were able to make a trip to Shreveport over Memorial Day weekend for some family time and of course some swimming! I think it’s Maya’s new favorite activity, seeing as she’s already been about 10 times this summer. The weekend flew by, but we had a great time seeing everyone. We got in Saturday and made a trip to Gramp’s, and Rick and June also joined us over there. It was great for Maya to see all of them again, along with Susan and Hal later the weekend. That night she got to meet Keith, Susan and Jordan for the first time over at her great-Gram’s house. Best of all she stayed pretty happy through all of the activity! It was a lot more than she usually does on a typical day, including the drive over.

Sunday a big group of Cranes came over for a pool party. It was Maya’s first swim in her Grandad’s pool and she had a great time. We’re ready to get back again soon for some more fun in the sun!

Our first family vacation

Jason — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:57:37 +0000

We’ve traveled plenty since Maya came around, but it’s always been to show off the little munchkin. So we finally decided to take our first family vacation, just the three of us, a few weeks ago.

We took a road trip to Mount Magazine, the highest point in Arkansas. Let’s forget about the six-and-a-half hour drive up there, and the seven-and-a-half hour drive back (Dallas rush hour!). Everything else was awesome. The Arkansas state park-run lodge was beautiful. Every room has a great view of the surrounding mountains and the huge lake in the valley below. We spent our days hiking (short ones, at Maya’s request), swimming in their huge pool and taking drives throughout the park. We had a balcony, which was nice for the adults after Maya headed to bed at 8!

Swimming was a huge hit for Maya. She LOVED her first dip in a pool, so we made many trips back while we stayed at the lodge. Must have worn her out because she slept through torrential rain and constant lightning that lit up our entire room our last night there.

Bottles are for babies

Jason — Sun, 23 May 2010 02:04:34 +0000

Just a video of Maya talking

Jason — Sun, 16 May 2010 21:24:19 +0000

Mother’s Day

Jason — Mon, 10 May 2010 02:22:44 +0000

Thanks to Jason and Maya for making this a great Mother’s Day. Maya kicked off the day be sleeping in an extra hour and 15 minutes, so that was the best present I could have asked for! (Especially after working election night the day before.) After a nice morning lounging around at home we headed to my favorite brunch spot, Esperanza’s, with our friends Scott, Julie and Jack. Glad we could spend part of the day with them.

We spent the afternoon at home playing, and then the entire family took an hour nap! That never happens! Then it was Bailey’s turn for some fun, so we all headed to the dog park. Maya likes watching all the pups run around, too.

Missed being able to spend the day with my wonderful mom, but hopefully she’ll get down here soon for another visit with Maya!

The beautiful photos in this slide show are thanks to our wonderful friend Amy who took some family photos for us at the botanic gardens last weekend.

Maya on the piano

Jason — Mon, 10 May 2010 00:24:13 +0000

Do you see our slideshows?

Jason — Sat, 08 May 2010 03:06:33 +0000

With most of our posts, we create a slideshow with photos of Maya. They should appear at the end of the post. They show up when viewing them on my computer, but not on Kari’s. Do you see them?

Comment on this post and let us know. We want to be sure everyone who wants to is seeing as many photos of the munchkin as they want. An example slideshow that’s also on another post is below.

Thanks for taking a minute to give us your feedback.

Update (May 9, 2010): I just fixed a bug that may have prevented some or most of you from viewing slideshows that accompany our posts. If you still don’t see them, try refreshing the page. If then you still don’t, let us know. That’s a lot of photos you may have missed, so I’ll try to find a way to get all them in one place for you. Or you can go through some of our old posts to look for slideshows. Sorry about that, hope you get to see more of Maya now.