More Pictures

Here are some more pictures. Mom said I need to do two per week until her and dad are able to come visit in a few weeks. I'll try and get some better ones when he's more fully awake and without his hat on. Hope everyone is doing well.

New baby boy!!!!

Silas DeBolin Curtis

Born April 17, 2010

10:21am

6 lbs 10 ounces

Here he is. Pretty exciting huh? Pretty small, too, right? Colleen and I were both surprised at the weight, given how gigantic she was at the end. But, he's healthy and she's healthy, and that's all that matters. I'm not really sure what else there is to tell. He has the DeBolin nose, Colleen says he has my lips and ears. He's got a little bit of brown hair, and gray eyes for now. Now I have to get going back to the hospital. Just wanted to run home to grab a few things and post these pictures. Hope everyone is doing well!

Guess What?

It's a boy!!!!!!

Sorry it's been such a long time since our last post. We haven't done much and I don't really like posting without pictures.

Anyways, we had our ultrasound on Friday and found out we're having a boy. Not too surprising given family history but still pretty exciting. He was being quite un-cooperative during the ultrasound, and the doctor kept having Colleen turn on her side, then back again, then the side again, to see if she could get him to stretch out so she could get the shots that she needed. Anyways, here are a couple of pictures from the ultrasound.

Camping and Fishing

Hi everyone. Colleen and I went camping yesterday for the night just the two of us. It was pretty cool. I fished a lot, and Colleen mostly hung out and took about 130 pictures of herself. That's typical when she's bored. Like Ben discovered with panning for gold, I discovered with fly fishing. Trying to copy it from the movies isn't always the best. It was fun trying though. I switched to my other rod and caught a small brown trout, which is all I caught. After I released it, I waded back out into the water and cast in again, then felt something bump my leg. I looked down and there was a water snake that looked about 3 feet long that bumped into my right leg then swam between my legs and then bumped in to my other leg. It was pretty cool. After that I looked across the way and say a whole bunch of otters. I ran back to our camp and grabbed the camera. When I first saw them they were on the shore on the other side of the river, when I finally got back with the camera they were all in the water right near our camp. I got a couple of good photos. Then we sat around the campfire after dinner and played with the camera. All in all it was a pretty good time.

4th of July

Hey everyone. We had a pretty productive 4th of July. At least during the day anyways. We went up to a spot called Mores Mtn. in the afternoon with some friends to go rock climbing. Well, let me correct myself, they were going rock climbing while Colleen and I and our friends wife Kelli watched. I was going to try it, but I wussed out. It looked a little too hardcore for me considering the last time I climbed was with Jeremy at the cliffs by the ranch over 10 years ago. It was a lot of fun though, and a gorgeous view. This just above Bogus Basin, which is where Colleen and I had been for a hike the week before and posted some pictures from that. After this we went over to Mike and Lindseys house and had a bbq, with the best damn burgers I think I've ever had. We lit off some legal fireworks and then after a few more beers decided it was time to get out the bottle rockets. Apparently the Boise Police were issuing $500 fines for illegal fireworks, so we were uhhh.....very careful about lighting them off. At one point we had two bike cops ride past their house right after we had lit some off and they didn't stop, so we didn't stop either. No pictures from that, but we did get some hilarious video of our friend Brandon falling on his aqq while trying to run away from a bottle rocket that flew into the grass next to him. Maybe I'll see if I can get that from Mike and post on here. It was great. Anyways, hope everyone had a nice 4th.

This is our friend Brandon climbing. It looks a little more hardcore than it really is due the angle that Colleen took the photo, but it was still pretty flipping hardcore.

This is the view from the top. 6500 ft elevation.

You know these people.

This is me and our friend Matt.

This is Brandon again.

Here's Brandon again testing that the anchors were in the rock solid enough. They were.

Another view from the top.

If you closely about right of center you can see me.

And another view from the top.

Finally, right?

I hope people will still read this. Sorry it's been such a long time. We've been doing a lot of stuff and keeping really busy, I've just been kind of lazy. I don't really like posting without pictures, and, like Ben, we always forget our camera. The pictures below are from a little walk we went on yesterday above Boise and just below Bogus Basin, which is a ski resort about 17 miles outside of Boise. I hope people in New York are still reading this. If not then I just don't know what to say. Enjoy the photos!

Finally a nice day for a bike ride

Hey everyone,

Sorry it's been so long since our last post, but we've been pretty busy since we've come home. Finding work, hanging out with friends and family, it's been great. It's been pretty nice here since we've come back, but only on a couple days has it been truly nice for a good bike ride. Unfortunately, Don, no burger and beer this time, but it's coming soon. Our first bike ride was on Sunday and we just rode over to our friends house and helped them with some gardening for a bit. Today was truly beautiful though. We rode from our place through downtown to the greenbelt, which follows the Boise River through town and also out of town for a total of 27 miles. Only crazy people bike that far. There's 3 parks in a row along the river, Julia Davis, Ann Morrison, and Albertson's Park. Colleen and I got married in Albertson's park, so some of you have been there. Also on one side of the river is the BSU campus. We just rode around for a while then stopped and cooled off by the river for a few then rode home. Can't beat almost 75 degrees and a nice bike ride by a cool river. Here are some photos!


This is the US Bank Building, which is the talles building in Boise. I only show a picture of it to comepare with the next photo.

Behind the painted wall here is what's supposed to be the tallest building in Boise, but instead I think is the shortest. Behind the wall is a pit about 30 feet deep where they had started to lay the foundation for a building but then the guy who was funding it or something ran out of money. It's been there for a very long time. They finally covered it up with this fence a few years ago, and had a really nice mural painted on it that was done by the local high schools, but then I guess they changed it and now it's kind of lame. Not near as pretty to look at as it was before.
This is the Grove. It's really neat in the late spring and summer because in the middle of the "park", there's a really big fountain that's on all the time. This is part of 8th street, and this is where they have the market on Saturdays which I'm really excited to go to again. Plus there's a really good restaurant right there and it's nice to eat there in the summer and sit outside and watch people.
This is sort of a random picture I took while we were riding. Actually, most of these are. Anyways, this is about a block or a two up from the last photo, and I mainly took it trying to get the flag in. Boise's all about food. There may not be as much diversity as New York City, but it's pretty good for Idaho. Just downtown there are over 80 different places to eat, from the hot dog stand to fine dining. Sushi, steaks, pizza, Indian, plus plenty of bars in case you want a liquid meal.
This photo here is Julia Davis Park. If you closely in the back ground, the building you can see through the trees is the Boise Art Museum, which is sometimes really lame, but sometimes they have really cool stuff come through.

Here we are. BSU is in the back ground here.
I had originally stepped into a really shallow part of the river, and sai to Colleen, "It's not cold at all." So then I cam up with the grand idea to just walk on out, and while it's only a little bit above my ankles, it was super cold once I got out further, but still nice and refreshing.
Here's Colleen, she didn't want to go in the water because she didn't want o get her shoes wet. She's kind of a ninny.
Here she is doing a balancing act.
Here's me on my sweet bike on a bridge over the river. I took a picture of Colleen on her bike, but she didn't like the picture so she said I wasn't allowed to post it.

And that's that. Hope everyone in New York is doing great, we miss you all very much. And we're looking forward to seeing the rest of my family in May and then again in July hopefully!