Our nephew, Drew, will turn 4 years old on September 3rd.  So while over my sister’s house this weekend, I had the following conversation with Drew:

Aunt KyKy: Drew, what do you want Uncle William and I to get you for you birthday?

Drew: Ummm….You can just get me a card.  My daddy is going to buy the toys.

Aunt KyKy: Are you sure?  I think Uncle William really wanted to find a toy you would like?

Drew: No, you can just buy a card and put it in the mail so I can have it on my birthday.  My daddy will buy all the toys for me.

Wow… who knew an almost 4 year old would tell someone not to buy him a toy.

We’ll see what happens.

William and I had a great time in Denver this past weekend. Typically we are simply excited to be in each others presence, so we don’t really take time to “plan” anything for our visits. However, this time William planned some “touristy” things for us to do. We have previously been to the Capitol Building, Mile High Stadium, and other sites in and around downtown, but we crossed a few more sites off our list.

After breakfast on Saturday at what has quickly become one of our favorite breakfast places, The Delectable Egg, we began our tour of the Denver Art Museum. With two buildings with several levels of exhibits, we became very overwhelmed at the amount of art on display, but did not really find anything that made us extremely fascinated. I guess we have not fully developed our appreciation for art. After the museum, we spent some time exploring the 16th Street Mall. We had several lunch options on the mall, but somehow managed to wander several blocks off the mall to a cute little pizza joint. After the long walk to get there, we were wondering if it would be worth it, but we both enjoyed our selection of the “Brooklyn”, which we quickly devoured. After making the walk back to the mall, which of course seemed much shorter this time, we treated ourselves to gelato (Italian ice cream). Yes, we broke our “healthy eating” rule, but hey… the gelato has less calories and less fat than regular ice cream We concluded the day with William’s favorite combo…dinner and a movie. William was surprised to learn that I was interested in seeing Get Smart, and I think we were both surprised that we both enjoyed the movie and laughed throughout the film despite the lukewarm reviews.

To conclude the weekend, we enjoyed Sunday brunch at Dazzle. I thought the brunch was very good and the live jazz band was a nice touch. Please do not ask William how the brownie covered in fudge that I brought to the table for us to share became Kyllan’s dessert. It had chocolate chips in it! Brownie without nuts, fudge topping, chocoloate chips….enough said.

William took pictures, of course, so I am sure he will post those soon.

Oh… and I have to report that after multiple visits to the Apple store only to come out empty handed and disgruntled, William is now the very proud owner of an iPhone, which he loves. I am sure he will post about that later this week.

Pictures from the reunion are up. I warn you, there are over 700. I included pictures taken by my Uncle Sam and my father. My Uncle Same would like me to add the disclaimer that his pictures tend to focus on his daughters and granddaughters. With so many photos, I didn’t take time to add an individual title and description to every photo. Enjoy.

Kyllan and I had a great time at my mother’s family reunion in Jacksonville this past weekend. Unfortunately I am having some trouble loading all of the photos from the weekend on Flickr. I will let everyone know once they are all up.

Pictures from the reunion are up on my flickr page. Pictures from our visit with Neil and Noah are also up.

Happy mother’s day to out mothers, Betty and Sandra, and to all of out friends and family members (especially Kyllan’s friend and line sister “CP” who is celebrating her first mother’s day. )

That’s right…. if you forgot from last year, my sister and I have back to back Birthdays, so we get to continue celebrating today.  Happy Birthday Kim!

I would like to wish a very happy birthday to my wife, Kyllan. Luckily our timing worked out pretty well and the two of us were able to celebrate a few days early while she was still in Denver. We tried a new restaurant for dinner, but stuck to one of our regular stops for breakfast. Apparently Kyllan is a fan of Jamaican Jerk Pork Chops. Who knew? For those of you dying to find out, we managed to see Iron Man, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Baby Mama. I will save my reviews for another post. There are a few photos of our weekend on my Flickr account.

Call or Text message Kyllan now!

Kyllan at 5yrs old

As many of you already know, I joined Kyllan and her family on Tuesday/ Wednesday for a very unique and amazing experience. The story is going to be told by a 3rd party this Friday. Friends and Family please call or E-mail so that we can share the details.

Mommy, originally uploaded by William Cody Jr.

Today I am wishing a happy birthday to my wonderful husband. I was searching for a picture of him to post and decided to post a picture of him when he was younger. I think this is such a cute picture!