An exciting Saturday night

Sorry, it's been a few days and I don't really have any pictures to post tonight, but I should in the next few days.  This week we got our new windows!  We weren't sure how much of a difference they would make, but the difference is actually amazing!  It is SO much quieter now.  I used to be able to identify every type of vehicle that drove by, and I don't even hear most of them now.  It's a lot less drafty too.  And we have screens on all the windows now!  We just need some nice warm weather so that we can finally open the windows.

I guess Mike and I are still kind of surprised that it's still so cold in March!  In Denver there was always the occasional fluke snowstorm, but there were also quite a few warm, beautiful days.  We really haven't had those here.  Today it was finally sunny, but the high was only about 40.  We're so used to doing a lot outside that it's hard to be stuck inside so much.  Everyone keeps promising that the summers are beautiful, so we're really hoping it will hurry up and get here soon.

My workouts with Greg have been going really well.  I work out with him at 6 am on Tuesdays and Fridays, and I've gotten a lot stronger already.  He was surprised at how much weight I could lift the other day.  This morning I went to the gym and did an hour of cardio, which is definitely the most I've done consecutively since high school soccer, but I felt great afterwards.  I did 20 minutes each on the treadmill, the elliptical and the tread climber.  I had seen the tread climber at the gym before and thought that it was sort of akin to the "Gazelle" on those infomercials, but it's actually a really good workout.  It sort of feels like you're hiking.  Breaking it up on different machines is a great solution for me because I usually get so bored that I feel like I'm going crazy.

Mike's Aunt Chris just got a Mac and we got to ichat with her tonight, which was so much fun!  Lilly always goes mute whenever we're hoping she'll talk (and vice versa), but we got to talk to Chris and this weekend she'll bring her computer to Mike's parents house and we'll get to see them too.  It's so nice to actually see people in person, they don't feel quite so far away.

Lilly is now able to sing the entire ABC song (though she calls it the ABCD song), and she can also count from 1 to 10.  She and Mike watched some snowboarding videos on YouTube and then she started "snowboarding" on our bed by jumping into the pillows.  I was counting to three for her to start when she informed me that "Lilly do it self" and she counted as follows: "1, 2, 3, 14, 5, 6, 12 - Go!"  But she really can count to ten :)

That's it for now - I'll post more pictures soon - maybe some of our house?  I know a lot of people haven't seen very much of it.  Have a great weekend!