Archive for the ‘Celebrating’ Category

memorial day parade

Posted on May 26th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

Yesterday at 8 AM we packed the kids in the car, picked up Caleb’s friend Lauryn, and headed to Commerce City for a parade.  Denver’s parade was canceled due to our crazy, rainy weather lately. The weather was amazing all morning, and the parade lasted two hours. The Air Force Honor Guard. When Ronald McDonald […]



fifteen

Posted on May 10th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

Caleb turned fifteen today!  He had a party here at home yesterday, with all of us and one of his friends, Lauryn.  We had pizza and an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins.  It’s the first birthday we haven’t made a homemade cake for him.  🙁 Of course, nobody complained. (I’m not sure what the […]



snow and celebrations

Posted on April 17th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  4 Comments »

With 24 inches of snow outside our door, I thought I’d relive some recent warm, happy days.  Not that snow makes us unhappy, of course.  To take up the mantra of Coloradans everywhere, We need the moisture.  Which is definitely true. I made a vegan cashew cheesecake for David’s welcome home/birthday celebration.  It was super yummy […]



a painting for david

Posted on April 15th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  7 Comments »

While David was away working at Master’s Golf for sixteen days, I made this oil painting for his birthday.  I was thrilled to obtain generous permission from The Wild Horses of Sable Island Gallery in NYC to use Roberto Dutesco’s beautiful photograph Tenderness as my inspiration. Sixteen days is a long time for us to be […]



birthday for a spaniard

Posted on April 8th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  4 Comments »

Well, it looks like David has made himself right at home in the Deep South.  This is him on sweet tea–see why we miss him so much?