Month July 2005

Hola! Tomorrow morning we are off to Zihuatanejo for a week of fun in the sun. If all goes as planned we will be meeting Scott and Julie on the beach with tropical drinks! We can’t wail. We aren’t bringing… Continue Reading →

Saturday we took Lola for a walk in the flat irons at Chitaquawa – here she is posing as a regal little pup. I was definitely styling in my puppy-fanny pack – fortunately boulder is filled with Dog owners and… Continue Reading →

So I finally did it. After years of being told to shut up when criticizing America because I’m not a citizen, I figured I’d pay the price of admission… Also, if this takes a year or less, I’ll be able… Continue Reading →

And the Winner is… I am trying to document the invites that I have been doing lately – and what better place to store them than the blog! 🙂 This invite is for a red carpet event in honor of… Continue Reading →

TWO YEARS AND COUNTING!!! Yesterday Mark and I celebrated our second anniversary. We had a lovely dinner with our friends at Bloom – great place with fantastic wine flights, my favorite, the Rhone Ranger Flight. For our true celebration we… Continue Reading →

I have been working on wedding invitations for a family friend, Rebecca Huntington and her fiance Reed. We worked with a graphic version of the columbine flower but wanted to give that rustic casual flair. It was a great project…. Continue Reading →

Black Panther Attack!! Our little Cricket caught herselft a flying grasshopper. As she carried it through the grass it flapped its wings and looked like a bow-tie (can’t really see in the photo). It was tons of fun taunting Hopper… Continue Reading →

After our game of golf, Sonja and I whipped out the back fence. We pulled off the horizontal slats, put up wire and then reattached the wood. (its hard to see, but I am wearing my Happy Birthday Jonathan shirt… Continue Reading →

Our Neighbors Sonja and Bernie are extremely handy – they have done all of their own landscaping and encourage us to build our own fence instead of paying to have it installed. So Saturday morning at 6:00 Sonja and I… Continue Reading →

Cricket learned a new trick – playing dead. She spends much of her day snuggled up stairs in the warmth of all of our machines learning through osmosis. 

Even though Lola is around, the kitties still run this house. Here’s the man snuggled up in his bed.  

Lola has quickly learned what beer o’clock is! Smart!! 

Lola now gets to play with her neighbor Shelby. Shelby is teaching Lola who’s boss.  

Annie also showed Lola how to have a bit of fun in the sprinklers – Lola was suspicious – maybe next time she will dive in.  

July 20, 2005 – Our neighbor, Cathy and her dog Annie have signed up to help Lola learn the ropes. Cathy trains dogs as a hobby and our first lesson is to walk on the leash and sit before crossing… Continue Reading →

Happy Birthday to Lisa!!! This photo was snapped at Heather’s big Gala event in Billings in February. Lisa snagged the winterland decoration – which obviously makes for a great photo prop. Here’s to Lisa having a FABULOUS birthday!! We can’t… Continue Reading →

Lol loves her Aunt Amy, and Aunt Amy loves Lola – now she is after Uncle Josh’s heart. She has a cute little belly of freckles (taking after her mom and dad) and quite a face. Amy brought over some… Continue Reading →

We are taking advantage of our clean slate and starting Lola’s training early. Learning to walk on a leash is hard! We have had 3 walks so far and this morning we went for 3 miles (good job for tiny… Continue Reading →

Say hello to Lola! On Saturday we picked up our newest member of the family – Lola is 9 weeks old and if FULL OF ENERGY. We are doing a slow introduction to the cats – but so far only… Continue Reading →

Tonight, Mark and I went to meet up with Chris and Jonathan at Awaken’s headquarters – they are doing an amazing job!! Afterwards we had a lovely dinner at California Cafe – a very delicious destination hidden near the stanford… Continue Reading →

Man, that Young Fenstermacher is smart. Already reading the gritty post-war books and discussing revolutions in journalism. We had the long awaited “bring your hubby to book club” book club. Good choice of books Tom. We learned who is pro-death… Continue Reading →

an old Kintana reunion at the Tied house… it’s an increasingly rare event to get three old Kintana Education team members in the same place at the same time these days… 

Mark and I are in Mountain View this week for work – and I arrived to see Jeremy’s new smile (sans braces!). It funny, after a week at work, nobody noticed that the braces were off. I am used to… Continue Reading →

Introducing Little Lola – Well Mark and I have decided to expand our family to include a new puppy. Lola (formerly named Triumph) is a Jack Russell Terrier – she is the runt of her litter, but she doesn’t believe… Continue Reading →

One of the great statistics about boulder is that on average people work out 26 minutes each day. I don’t know if its true. I think people may use the statistic to be able to purchase all of the �necessary�… Continue Reading →

Mark and I have tried a few entry way rugs with little success. We decided to give theInterface Flor System a try. These are carpet tiles that have a low stick backing – which means they don’t harm your floors… Continue Reading →

Posing for photos…. I love group photos… what do you think Mark is thinking? hmmm…  

Crystal, Tom, Fiona and my parents helped us celebrate the 4th – we hung out on our patio, had dinner, played trivia and the boys even tested out type of gin (Tom thought shooting it was better than tasting it… Continue Reading →

Happy 4th of July!! Baby Fiona was our independence day decoration in her red, white and blue! 🙂 

Sunday, July 3rd – dinner at Josh and Amy’s to celebrate the patio. Greg D is using the gas fireplace to roast a marshmellow for s’mores.  

We had jessica, yancey and emma over to meet everyone – emma quickly realized that beer bottles are a fun toy.  

Saturday, July 2 – Crystal, Tom, Fiona and Greg arrived to Colorado for the 4th. Little Fiona had quite a time with uncle josh.  

Happy Belated Fathers Day… we took my dad to Sushi Den in Denver for a fantastic spread of sushi – josh even tried natural wasabi (but my sensitive tongue steered clear.  

Ok more gloating… My dad had a great game, and I had some strategic holes (still striving for consistency). Winna, winna, winna!! 

Thursday, June 30th – Day one of the golf tournament: Pam | Mark vs Mandy | Kevin. I don’t want to gloat, but we kicked the pants off of Mark and Pam. But the highlight of this day was being… Continue Reading →

Wednesday, June 29th – Hello Pink Ladies!! We headed to Red Rocks for the Steve Miller Band Concert – Red Rocks is amazing and steve miller still had it. Unfortunately for the entire ampitheater I knew the words to all… Continue Reading →