Archive for the ‘Colorado’ Category

snow!

Posted on October 4th, 2013 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »



into fall

Posted on October 2nd, 2013 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

October, I think, is when fall really arrives.  Today the first of the pumpkin pies came out of the oven (there will be many more).  Large finger-sized scoop of whipped cream hollowed out courtesy David L. Lucero. When I looked out the door at dinnertime, fall was spread across the mountain.  And no, they don’t […]



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 […]



sweet mountain home

Posted on August 30th, 2013 by mountain girl  |  11 Comments »

Almost from the time we were married, we’ve dreamed of owning a home and a patch of land in the mountains.  When I started this blog, I even called myself a mountain girl–but it was just a dream. When Zia was tiny, we began working toward that dream with a budget chart marked Lucero Mountain […]



hiking the indian peaks wilderness

Posted on August 28th, 2013 by mountain girl  |  2 Comments »

We can see the Indian Peaks from our house, and this weekend we hiked them.  Cash started out in the stroller, but we ended up carrying him when the going got rocky.  At 9980 ft., the air was light and fresh, with that slightly giddy feeling (am I the only one feels that?) The kids […]