Category: Family

Hello blogosphere!
I can’t believe how long it has been since we have made a post! 2010 got off to a busy start for William and me. William started his new job and is adjusting to going from a 4 mile commute to a 35 mile commute. His commute is only a few miles shorter than my 40 mile commute to work, but I don’t have to deal with as much traffic.  That means Audible.com is getting a lot of business from the Cody family 🙂 I have actually only listened to one audio book, but William has listened to quite a few. I listen to satellite radio about 99% of the time.
Anyway… my schedule has been pretty busy as well. Work has been busy (a good thing) and I have had Saturday work functions that have absorbed some of my weekend time, so I have been a little pooped lately. By the time I get home from work, make dinner, eat, go the the gym for 30 minutes a day of cardio (or my Wednesday night beating from my trainer), I haven’t had much energy to make a blog post. Today I was able to get in a tiny nap after my work function, so I decided I had enough energy to post.
You know William has been busy when he doesn’t immediately post photos to Flickr. We should hopefully have up pictures soon from New Year’s in Jacksonville. We had a nice time. Thursday night was the annual Cody New Year’s Eve party. Friday, William and his dad got to go to the Gator Bowl and watch Bobby Bowden win his last game as coach of the Florida State Seminoles (William is a huge Florida State fan). His mother, grandmother and I went shopping 🙂 On Saturday, we attended a wedding in Palm Beach of a childhood friend of William’s. It was very nice.
Other than that, William and I have just enjoyed seeing each other at the end of each day. It’s nice to talk to him on the phone on the way home from work and say “see you at home!”. It is starting to feel like we were never apart.
Well… that is the quick update. Hopefully you will see more frequent posts.

I spent all day yesterday with my nephew Drew. We started off the morning by going to see Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel. It got a little slow at times and in the middle of the movie Drew told me that he was ready to go. The pace picked back up, but I’m going to have to give it 2 1/2 stars. Don’t take any little kids to see this movie unless they ask several times to go. After the movie we spent over an hour in the Lego store, which was fine by me. Next we spent an hour walking around an extremely overpriced toy store which, again, was fine by me.  Drew could have taken serious advantage of me in that store, but he wasn’t interested in any of the toys I thought were cool. He refused to go down the Star Wars isle after proclaiming, “All the stuff down there is boring.” As if a 12″ Lando Cairissian action figure could be boring… After walking around the mall poking at every cactus in a planter and hanging out at the duck pond, we made our way to Dave & Busters. We mostly played Skee ball and other redemption games. Drew also really enjoyed a motorcycle game that featured a moving bike he could sit on, a pilot game with a panoramic screen which required me to operate the rudder and big rig truck racing game where he let me drive and focused on honking the horn. Later we stopped by the park by the house as we waited for Aunt Kyky to get home from work. Drew wanted to see her before I took him home. We had great time and we will definitely have to spend the day together again. Oh, and I am still exhausted. I don’t know how people keep up with little children for more than one day at a time.

Below is a clip of  Drew in his schools Christmas play. Below that is a picture slide show, all of which can be found on my flickr page. The entire play is too long to upload, so I will try and make a DVD later. Right now I need to get ready a go to the airport to pick up my parents and grandmother, who are coming down for Christmas.

There are a few pictures from Thanksgiving up on Flickr. We entered the month of November not knowing if I would defend or not before Thanksgiving, so logistics made it too difficult to make any big plans. We enjoyed a small thanksgiving at home and were joined that evening by Kim N. and Rob. Having finished with the defense and making the move to Dallas, it was probably the most stress free I had been in a long time.

I haven’t actually had to be physically on the campus for a while and spent bit of time in Dallas with Kyllan. I’m back in Denver now, but here are  a few photos from my time there.