boy, I'm behind

I just realized it's been longer than I thought...so here's a few extra pics. We're still going through some vegas stuff.

Getting into Vegas had been interesting. The night we left, a tornado or two touched down near our neighborhood. We barely made it to the gate in time because we had to wait until the storm passed over us to go to the airport. We were in the bathroom listening to our weather radio! It was really close. We boarded almost as soon as we got to the gate. Miss Autumn had a little time to people watch, though.


On the way, we let Autumn watch her favorite movie: Tinkerbell. She HATED the headphones. Part of it had to do with the size, I think. They were too big so we used Madeleine to prop them up. Even now, whenever she sees a headset or headphones Autumn covers her ears and says, "no ear! no ear!"


Friday, Mike, Autumn, and I chilled out for the afternoon. We stayed at a Marriott near the strip that was very nice. So when I got in the pool, I was surprised that it didn't...feel...quite right. Some of the water got on my lip and I thought, "huhhhh, that doesn't taste quite right." But it looked so clean! Well, turns out it was a salt water pool. Ha! What a relief...


This is apparently the Colley Subfamily A version of Cirque du Soliel's O. BE IMPRESSED.


Tyler and Autumn are both learning to jump. It's pretty cute. Autumn gets a little air these days but they both kind of bend their knees and shimmy from the edge of the pool.


Mike and me outside the Ka theater after the show Friday night. Those shoes? Baad idea. I meant to bring flip flops and FORGOT THEM. It was terrible. Anyway, Ka was pretty cool. The good/bad news is that it wasn't sooo good that I wanted to move to Vegas and join the show. :P For anyone who doesn't know, it's the martial arts Cirque du Soleil that I've wanted to see for at least 3 years. Get me to tell you about the Tarzan character sometime. THAT was a man secure in his masculinity. For real.


This is Saturday morning, I believe. Another morning of Her Majesty the Queen being strolled by her entourage.


This is in the Venetian. There were these tubes that dropped a blue light so it looked like rain. I told Mike if we're ever fabulously wealthy, I was going throw a party that looks like this.


More Venetian...


I love this picture. Brad and Autumn were dancing through the casino.


That night we ate at Trevi by the fountain. The food was delicious although we couldn't hear each other over the fountain and the waiter kept leaning on my head. I told Mike after the third time that if he did it again, I was gonna whap the guy. :P It didn't happen again. I like to think the waiter sensed the danger. Hahahaha.


Ok, this is getting a bit long so I think I'll call my tale there. I have a couple days more of photos. I'll try to get them out sooner than I did this week!

What happens in Vegas...

Doesn't always stay in Vegas. I got this rare footage of copycats in the wild. Enjoy!

We're back!

Hi, all! We're back from our Vegas vacation! It was full of thrills like dodging tornadoes on the way out of town and hotel fire alarms going off during showers, as well as huge bowls of french fries...


Casinos!


Salt water pools!


Sharks!


And more!

Dance Class!

So...for the first time ever, Autumn went to dance class today!! Before anyone gets really excited (I've gotten phone calls, already, lol), I don't have video or photos of the actual class. I didn't realize my camera batteries were nearly dead. I do, however, have some "after" photos! Annalise taught the little class. Her daughter Ella is just a little older than Autumn and they hit it off pretty well. Ella knows the routine and was sooo cute doing her moves. Here they are after class reading together. Sorry about the quality. My blackberry didn't like the light:


When we got home, I put in some batteries and tried to get some cute photos but Autumn wouldn't put down her broom.


She wasn't sweeping, she was waving the broom around like a baton...or a weapon. hahaha. Look! She even has her guard hand up.


I just think this one is funny. Not sure why. It might be her stocky little body (although she's stretched out a good bit the last few weeks) or how she looks like she's about to set out on a journey.


For a slight change of pace...some people on Facebook have seen this already but I thought I'd post these here. I made Autumn a new dress!


What did she think about it?


It's an Asian-inspired pattern by ModKid but it looks way japanese on Autumn. I think because it might be a touch too big so it's more of a kimono effect than it might be normally.


This is one of the last ones I tried to take. She's so cute when she's sad. Isn't that terrible?? :P The dress can be worn without the obi--it's an unattached belt.


I believe that's all for now!!

Great Grandparents...

My grandmother went back home to the Philippines last week. We had one last Memphis dinner with her at Corky's with the rest of my family. here we all are...

From July 2009

And with just my grandmother. It's kinda sad because Autumn asks for her Nanay periodically but I'm hoping we might be able to get a webcam set up so they can talk to each other.


Over to Mike's family, we had Nanny and Boppa over for dinner last weekend. Here's what Autumn did when we said, "smile!"


Kisses for Boppa. Actually, before she kissed Boppa, she said, "no kiss!" lol.


Talky baby. :) I love this picture. It's just so sweet.


Autumn is our little gymnast. She rolls around and climbs and falls and is pretty chill about the whole thing. She's done this look through her legs move for months and months and it tickles us as much now as it did when she first started.


Now, look! Two videos in a row! This one isn't edited or anything but it's pretty funny. I don't think readers here have heard Autumn talk much in her videos so here she is saying goodbye to Nanny and Boppa. They got into their car and turned around in a neighbor's driveway so she had plenty of time to wave. :)


Ps, you like her insistent, "sit! sit!" there at the end? Hahahaha.

LolColleys

Little Colleys are in ur internets...bringing teh cute.


Little Colleys are in ur kitchen, plotting ur doom.


Little Colleys bringz teh hugs.




All right, all right. No more LolSpeak. :P Anyway, I compiled a leetle video of our trip. Seriously, I cut this down from about 7 or 8 minutes of Autumn dancing in her carseat. :) She's a funny kid and the car is no exception. My favorite moment in this video is at minute 1:17...her face just tickles me to no end. Also, did I mention here that I overheard Mike talking to Autumn about the beach or was that just on facebook? Well, it's funny enough to repeat so:

"Hey, Autumn? Can you say beach?" [Autumn: BEACH!] "Do you know what the beach is? It's a horrible place. Very hot."

Note how much fun he's having in this video. Mmmmhmmm.

moment of cute

Last night and this morning we had some pretty cool thunderstorms. Mike and I enjoy a good storm and, really, Autumn is surprisingly laid back about them. Sometimes she and Mike stand in the window together and look at the lighting and wind.

Last night, there was a particularly loud rumble and we heard Autumn make some noise. Storms don't usually wake her and she usually doesn't get out of bed even if she does wake up in the night because there's a rail that's a pain to get over for her (she can, she just...doesn't). So we were a little amused to hear her patpatpat-ing down the hall.


Mike ended up retrieving her and bringing her to our room. I don't know why this tickled me so much but she had her baby doll with her. It was just so darn cute! Little Autumn, startled out of sleep, scared of the thunder, grabs her baby doll and goes hunting for mama and papa. All together now, "awwwwww." hahahaha.


:) She went back to sleep patting my arm.