Zia insisted we needed to “bake a HUGE cake” today. So we did–but not exactly a huge one. We had just about enough flour, sugar, eggs, and confectioner’s sugar for half a cake, so we made a one-layer vanilla cake. It was plenty–with leftovers to freeze until Caleb comes home. (Not that you’re saving any […]
Happy first day of 2015! We in the high hills are rejoicing because our thermometers have finally risen above zero. And with that warm and comforting thought, we tucked ourselves into bed at 9:00 last night. Hope y’all had fun ringing in the new year…as for us, we’d rather be up early to see it […]
Happy New Year’s Eve! This year has flown by so fast I hardly know where it went! In hopes of keeping it from escaping completely without a trace, I put together a little month-by-month synopsis of our lives in 2014. I was kind of surprised at how much has actually happened to us in just […]
David was gone most of the day yesterday, fixing the brakes on the 4Runner. He came home with food from Chipotle and surprised me with these sweet flowers. And speaking of surprises… I found these earrings nestled in the leaves of our jade tree on Christmas morning. And these. Along with a gift card for […]
We spent Christmas Eve in Winter Park, a little more than an hour from home. It’s such a winter world there. Although the elevation of the town is about like ours (a little over 9000 ft) , it’s much colder, with a lot more snow. The mountains themselves are around 12,000 ft high. That’s where […]
