Archive for the ‘Celebrating’ Category

winter park, christmas eve

Posted on December 24th, 2013 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

For the third year in a row, we spent Christmas Eve in Winter Park.  Winter Park is a cozy and very cold place to be on Christmas Eve. We arrived at 2:3o, got a bite to eat, and walked around the shops.  Zia got some rock candy and she and Cash each got a ball […]



happy nine years

Posted on December 1st, 2013 by mountain girl  |  5 Comments »

Happy anniversary to the man I love more than anyone on earth!  You’ve given me the sweetest nine years of my life, and I have so much fun with you.  Tip your hat to another year, cowboy, because we’re one wild adventure in the making.  Let the saga continue–and I’ll be riding shotgun at your […]



happy thanksgiving!

Posted on November 28th, 2013 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

We made our own little Thanksgiving dinner at home today. It was just the four of us, since Caleb is in New Mexico with his mom. After a nice long snuggle in bed, (complete with a stinky diaper perched on our faces, dimply hands grasping at our noses, and plump feet stepping on our necks […]



oreo turkeys and carousel rides

Posted on November 25th, 2013 by mountain girl  |  4 Comments »

These little turkeys are terribly unhealthy–and lots of fun to make.  We found them here, and Zia decided to make them for the annual Thanksgiving dinner in Nederland. I made red, yellow, and chocolate frosting to stick the pieces together and add features to the turkeys.  Zia put them together…for a while.  Then she got […]



we’re home (and safe)

Posted on September 18th, 2013 by mountain girl  |  7 Comments »

We are in our new house!  It took us four days of going back and forth, but we’re finally in. Caleb and the kids and I took the first load in the back of our 4Runner Thursday night. Unfortunately, we somehow never got a key to our house. So I slid in through the doggie […]