Roux's World

Radcliffe Memories

2010-07-29T16:52:00.000-07:00

Recently a friend of mine moved into the neighborhood in Tempe where I grew up. He now lives right around the corner from our house on Radcliffe. He told me that the occupants moved out so I took the opportunity to visit and see if my hand prints were still in the concrete by the driveway, and sure enough they were! During a walk with his dog Sparky he so kindly took a picture for me. This had to have been Spring circa 1977, since the question mark represents my younger sister Carrie who was not born yet.

Thanks Michael!

Easter

2010-05-31T14:38:00.000-07:00

We went to the Annual Queen Creek Easter Egg Hunt with Lauren. Fortunately, they do the egg hunt by age so Lauren was able to somewhat enjoy her first egg hunt.

Cancun

2010-05-31T13:56:00.001-07:00

As many of you know Dan and I love to travel. So when our best friends Levi and Heather told us they were going to Cancun to celebrate their 10 year anniversary we jumped at the chance. Here are some pictures from our trip.

This is the view from our room...completely amazing.

The service there was great and every evening after a tough day at the pool we would come back to our room to a towel animal.

All Levi wanted to do on the trip was to go scuba diving. We missed our opportunity when we went to Hawaii so this time he was deterimined to make it happen. I wasn't too excited about it but I went anyway because let's be honest I didn't want to miss out on anything. Here is a picture of the dive shop.

We didn't do a whole bunch then sit by the water and enjoy all the amenities an all-inclusive has to offer. We did take a day trip to tour one of the myan ruins Chitzen itza.

Trying to take a picture of the group with the timer on the camera...Dan was a little late in running over.

This is the view coming out of the lobby.

We had a great time and are already planning what trip to take next.

Daddy feeding time.

2010-04-27T10:11:00.000-07:00

This is what happens when Daddy feeds Lo.

I think that says it all.

ASU or UA?

2010-04-27T10:01:00.000-07:00

Daniel and I have had a heated debate since we have been together, ASU vs. UA. Unfortunately our poor child will forever be between the two of us until she goes to college then at that time she will probably choose NAU for her own sanity. Because of the convenience factor Lauren has more ASU paraphernalia than UA. Here is the beginning of a war...poor child.

Lauren's First Christmas

2010-04-27T09:35:00.000-07:00

We had an enjoyable Christmas. Dan's parents came up to celebrate the holiday. We had a nice Christmas Eve dinner, steak flambe and french fries, I even brought out the china! On Christmas day we had Jenni, Shane, Heather, Eric, Papa Berkey and Grandma Berkey over. We had a great time spending Lauren's first Christmas with everyone.

Lauren loved the lights she spent many evenings beneath the tree.

Lauren in her reindeer outfit, a must have for baby's first christmas. We bought it more for us then for her.

Christmas morning.

Christmas morning with Daddy.

She was tired after all the festivities.

Our little ladybug.

Lauren's First Christmas Program

2010-04-27T09:22:00.001-07:00

I know it's been awhile since I posted (5 months?) soory. But I want to get back on track and update everyone on what has been going on since mid-December. Christmas came in a whirlwind. Lauren's daycare put on a Chirstmas program which we attended. The idea was to bring the "Butterfly"classroom out on a crib decorated like Santa's Sleigh. The idea was cute but they weren't able to execute it, babies can be very unpredictable. This is Miss Cynthia with Lauren, she is one of our favorites and she loves LoLo.

Lauren's First Santa Party

2009-12-16T13:58:00.000-08:00

Last weekend we did our traditional "Santa Party". Our friend's dad dresses up like Santa and shows up in a grand affair on a fire truck. Here are some pictures from the event.

First Halloween

2009-11-08T09:40:00.000-08:00

It was Lauren's first Halloween. As you know, she's a little too young to go trick or treating to gather candy, but we still felt the need to dress her up for the evening.

All dressed up.

Lauren sitting outside waiting for the trick or treaters.

Standing on Daddy's lap.

Back to Work

2009-10-23T14:00:00.000-07:00

I have re-entered the work environment this has made me think about the things I really enjoy about working and then the things I don’t enjoy so much about it. Here is my list.

Missed:
Going to lunch without having to cart around a car seat
Having adult interaction
Going to Campus Corner across the street for my afternoon diet Coke fix
Listening to CNN on XM radio in the morning

Didn’t Miss
Listening to random cell phone conversations of strangers peeing in the stall next to me
Contact with germs (yes, I got sick my second day back to work)
Getting up early in the morning
Looking at skinny girls with fake boobs

That’s all for now.

Lauren's First Visit to Utah

2009-10-11T20:20:00.001-07:00

I took advantage of my last week of maternity leave and went to visit Carrie, my sister up in Utah. So Lauren and I packed our bags and headed to the north. Here are a few pictures from our adventures.

Teagan and Lauren hanging out together on the couch.

Tristyn loved playing with the babies, she so badly wanted to hold Lauren. Here they are together, Tristyn has such a sweet little face.

Carrie and I found Teagan and Lauren like this on the floor, we figured they were both trying to spell their last name. They were off to a good start beginning with a "T".

All three of them hanging out on the floor.

Saturday Night Movie

2009-10-04T17:57:00.000-07:00

Last night Daniel and I decided to watch 'Marley and Me'...big mistake. I thought it was going to an evening of laughter watching a jovial movie about a dog wrecking havoc on his owner's life. I completely disregarded my own rule of not watching movies with dogs in them as they always turn out the same in the end...the dog dies. This is one of the main reasons why I have still yet to see 'I am Legend'. After crying like a baby I turn to Dan and ask him if he liked the movie he responded, "I only want to watch movies where people die not dogs or babies". Well said.

After the movie I had to love and kiss Mattie more than usual. She is the sweetest and best dog I have ever met. So this is to my sweet baby Roux, the namesake of this blog.

Labor Day Weekend in Tucson

2009-09-11T09:01:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we packed up the car and headed down to Tucson to visit Dan's parents, Dan's sister Tanya and son Dylan who were both in town from Denver. On Saturday Grandma JoJo made arrangements for Dylan and Lauren to have their picture taken together. It didn't quite work out as planned as Dylan kept hiding behind the backdrop, he wasn't too interested in sitting next to his cousin to have his picture taken. However we got great pictures of both Lauren and Dylan individually. Maybe someday we'll be able to get them in a picture together.

Lauren is ready for her photoshoot.

Dylan was having a good time with Uncle Dan in the pool.

Lauren hanging out with her Auntie Tanya.

While we were there we visited Daniel's Grandma, Meme.

Lauren loves her Grandma JoJo to rub her back, she was in heaven.

We asked Lauren if she was ready to leave this is how she responded.

New Addition to our family

2009-09-02T13:00:00.000-07:00

Finally my first post. Yay! After a slightly complicated delivery Lauren Olivia Tyrrell was finally born on July 14, 2009, at 1:32 p.m. weighing 6 lbs 4 oz and measuring 20 inches long.

Daniel with Lauren just minutes after she was born.

Lauren had a small cut so she had to be sent to the NICU at Desert Banner. This is her hooked up to the IV, poor little thing.

Lauren's first days at home.

Mattie is very intrigued with her. I think she's more interested in smelling the diaper...blech.

After her first bath.

Lauren with her cousin Teagan, they are three months apart.

She has quite a concerned look on her face.

One of her first smiles caught on camera.

Reading Olivia with Daddy.
Do you thinks she looks like Mommy or Daddy?