KAIYA JOSIE FIRST TWO WEEKS

Here's the girl giving us so much joy!

Kaiya's First Month!

Kaiya arrived Feb 10th and has been keeping us quite busy ever since! Some highlights below:

Kaiya is born!






Day 1 in the hospital:



Newborns sleep a lot:















And make funny faces:









And love their grand (and great grand!) parents:












And love going on walks:





Kaiya has started making eye contact, rolling over, and playing by herself on the mat. We can't wait to see what happens in month two! (All pics from my phone, sorry to leave out sone great ones on my camera...!)

Jer's tennis camp vacation in Palm Springs, California, December 2010

Great 4 day vaca in "the desert".

Tennis kicked my butt.

Blue, cloudless skies, my own private 2 BR, 2 BA villa with shared private pool and hot tub.

I'd do it again.

Here for more pics.

Chanukah and elephants

Can you guess which is which? ;)

Tejas!

Ok--so San Antonio was better than I thought. Although I admit I saw three blocks of it. Sunny blue skies and honestly one of the best "business" type hotels I've ever stayed at! People were ridiculously nice, the room was great (best bed!) and the pool was amazing for a city hotel. Room service=gross but what's new. And once you leave the three square blocks around the conference center, everything quickly deteriorates. Almost reminded me of Albany...!?

I got lost on the "famous" Riverwalk which was actually a really nice try at charm and beauty! Kind of like a Texan Venice! It's a broad canal that runs for a couple miles and is lined with shops, hotels and restaurants. It's kind of under the main streets, like the one going from Cherry Creek to REI so it's quiet and almost country looking.










Nicely landscaped and lots of cute baby ducks. :) Tons of Tex-Mex and ice cream. I looked up the "best" Mexican on Riverwalk (yelpers agreed that nothing is good on Riverwalk since locals consider it Disneyworld. I told Danny it's like Little Italy on water for miles-- or Epcot Center Texas.) But I went to the one reviewers said is the only semi-authentic restuarant on the river. Fish tacos for me:



And no. It wasn't that good. But I topped it off with Ben and Jerry's so all ended well.

Back to the hotel for a nap in the sun and a swim!






Tht night I returned with a colleague for a "drink" (pomegranate juice and club soda) and couldn't believe how packed everything was! Margaritas and mariachis everywhere. I was glad to run back to the room and was asleep by 9:30.

I almost forgot--all this after a successful panel with the CDC on the glory of Health Bucks!

Winter approaching...

The view from my office window tonight...



And I'm off to Texas for my last sun of the season!

ClearWater Initiative & Army Ten-Miler Race

I have mentioned to some of you that my friend, David Abraham, recently volunteered to help lead the ClearWater Initiative, an organization his friend founded.

Friends and volunteers are raising money for it by running in the Army Ten-Miler Race this weekend.

I've attended and supported them at other events they've had, and they needed volunteers to help out with the race.

I somehow got stuck with making signs for people to wave in support at the race.

Kinkos and a paint store did the trick.

I made 10 of these, double-sided with each info.