Ryan Wilson’s Blog

Another major element in my life lately has been planning a trip to Italy for Steph and I.  She is in Michigan now and for the next several months, but she has the second part of February and first part of March off from school…so we are going to Italy!  Neither of us have been before, so it is really exciting for us.  It will also be my first time out of North America so I figured that I should not use a travel agent and figure it all out myself :)  Stephanie has been really good at letting me try to figure it out (although I’m sure she would prefer a travel agent).  The plan is to spend 4 days in Venice, 6 days in Cortina, and 1 night in London.  Finding the hotels has been a challenge, but I think we are all set (for now).

So many of you have heard about Steph and my new puppy Kodiak (Kodi).  He was born on May 11th 2006 and he is a labradoodle.  He has been a lot of fun and is a very good friend…

This pic is from our first trip to the breeder.  He was only a couple weeks old and couldn’t barely open his eyes.

 This if from our second trip.  He had started to walk around a little better and open his eyes.  His eyes were almost blue when we first got him, now they are black like the rest of him.  Check out how tall he is in comparison to the grass…

This is our 3rd trip.  He had at least doubled in size again…

 Same trip with his brothers and sisters…

Finally we got him home at just about 8 weeks old!

 …and this is a pic from when Mom came to visit.  We took him to the Brainard Lake Park near Ward just west of Boulder…

Notice that we are trying to drag him into the water and he just wants to sit on the beach and eat seaweed (errr lakeweed)

So, here I sit at the blog business summit and I think ‘hey, I have an idea…why not make a blog?’  I have enough friends and family distributed across the country and I don’t get or always make the time to have meaningful conversations with each of you on a regular basis.  I think this might help everyone know what exactly is going on in my life without actually having to talk to me ;)