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Little Bubbles

Dancing Shoes

Today was the first day Julia insisted on a certain outfit. She went with the no pants-dress shoes look.

Peek-A-Boo

O Where Is My Hairbrush?

Wakey Doggie Silly

Sweet Dreams

Belly-Button Lent And Vail

Lent began on Wednesday...what, you didn't know? Anyway, after some soul searching, chapel on Friday, and article/blog reading, I've decided to give up blogging for Lent. I'd better not type much more or else I'll be blogging!

I'll still post any cute pictures of Julia or family activities during this time. However, I am going to take a hiatus the next 40 days from typing about such "important" life issues (e.g. football, etc) described by the writer of Ecclesiastes (King Solomon) as "meaningless". Hopefully, I will replace the time otherwise spent blogging on things that aren't "chasing after the wind" and "vanity". And, I plan to actually talk to my wife and parents about things that I do rather then make them read my blog to find out about them or what I'm thinking.

So, without further ado, here are some pictures I took in Vail this weekend. Stacey and I left Julia with my parents and bummed around Vail on Saturday and Sunday. The picture you see here is where we met in Silverthorne on our way home and on my parent's way to Steamboat.

Weekly Spurs Update

I've decided that I'm going to try and limit my posts about Tottenham to once a week, since 4 out of 5 of my readers probably "couldn't give a toss". The one reader who does is actually myself, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense since I'm the one writing it in the first place. I mean, is it bad that I write these posts and then enjoy thinking to myself "that's exactly what I was thinking" after reading them? Anyway, I'm already off topic (see my previous post about narcisscism).

Monday night's game against Hull was huge. Considering we played at least a day after everyone else, we knew going into the game that if we could get a victory it would put us 5 points above relegation. If we lost, we would stay in the same spot we've been all season with fewer and fewer games remaining. We ended up winning 2-1, on a late header from Woodgate. This is a huge result and gives us at least a game cushion considering our superior goal difference. Big, big win.

Thursday we host Shakhtar, and I'll just follow this one online. After the Hull game Harry was interviewed and flat out said we beat Hull because we rested our players against Shakhtar a few days prior. He pointed out that Villa had not rested their players and they ended up losing to Chelsea. Yeah, it was Chelsea, but they and Villa had similar records and so did Spurs and Hull. He proceeded to slam the fixture list about this and the fact that we have a game on Thursday night a few days before a cup final! Anyways, if we fielded a weak team last week, this week's matchup against Shakhtar is going to be even weaker. I'm pretty sure he said he'll make 11 changes to the team that played Monday night against Hull and will give even more of our "youngings" a run out.

This leads me to Sunday morning...8 a.m. Tottenham face United in the Carling Cup Final, hoping to pull off the upset in the same cup final as they did last year against Chelsea. Anything can happen, but I wouldn't bet on it this time around. Regardless, another cup this year would slightly sweeten this bitter season. Additionally, it would get us back into the UEFA Cup next year - something we can't do in the league since we're so far down the table.

Things are looking a bit more hopeful right now. Who knows, if we happen to win on Sunday and hit a good stretch, we could end the season in mid table and with a cup! That's a far cry from even a few days ago. Here's hoping.