Life in Colorado

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Fancy …

we headed up to Rob and Kieuly’s new house in the Boulder Foothills for Brunch a few Sunday’s ago – the house was amazing. here are a few pics my favorite part of the house was the master bathroom hello… Continue Reading →

Costa Rica – Playing in the sun!

We have been having great weather in Costa Rica … we expected some showers and some weather from the hurricane’s but we seemed to have come in at the right time. Our house is on a fantastic (secluded) beach so the first morning we woke up and… Continue Reading →

Costa Rica: Getting to Tango Mar

        We had a great night in San Jose and enjoyed the breakfast at the Hampton Inn before heading to the airport. We arrived at 12:00 for a 1:30 flight – they told us we couldn’t check… Continue Reading →

Costa Rica!

Well we are off for our annual tropical anniversary vacation with the Johnstons! This year we headed to Costa Rica for a week in Tambor. We often use Luxury Link to search our locations we want to travel to and… Continue Reading →

The Johnstons! (part three)

Ok the final batch of photos… On Sunday we did more of the same, hanging out, having drinks and enjoying the backyard. Niko quickly found the three little pigs house (aka doghouse) which was a huge hit. Perfect size for… Continue Reading →

Vegas!

Tonight we are off to Vegas to celebrate many things … the launch of Google Sites, Julie being cancer free for 2 years and my 30th birthday (actually I am re-turning 30 this year since I was preggers last year… Continue Reading →

Beanies!!

I am sure many of you know about my addiction to Etsy … so when a blog pointed to these cute little hats from PDX Beanies I had to get them for Nicholas and Elsie for our trip to California… Continue Reading →

First meetings

My parents had their annual Christmas party this weekend which was a good kickstart for the holidays. Elsie was overwhelmed by all of the new attention – bit of her dad in her, but we had a great time. This… Continue Reading →

Party dress!

This weekend we had Emma and Sophie Spruill’s joint birthday party. Elsie decided that she wanted to wear her Paris Party dress from Mart and Lew  – we took a few photos before we headed out. The best part of… Continue Reading →

In Memoriam: Brooke Mahoney

It is with great sadness that we learned of Brooke’s passing on September 7th. Brooke was a lifelong mentor for me, an aunt of sorts, and a truly remarkable woman. She loved to travel the world, and we found ourselves… Continue Reading →

Saffron!

We arrived back to colorado this morning and headed up to meet our newest family member, Saffron Eileen Richau. She is to die for! She has a full head of dark hair – and I think she is a perfect… Continue Reading →

Last day in Kauai

Well the week is ending (so sad) so we spent our last day lounging around on the beach, swimming, more surfing for the boys and then a delicious lobster dinner flown in from Maine. Yum Here is a photo run… Continue Reading →

A lazy day and more dinner

On Wednesday morning the boys headed out for a marathon surf morning … Jul and I held down the fort with the babies. We played, had some naps, and were preparing to take the kids to the beach. The sun… Continue Reading →

Fern Grotto

A coworker of mark’s suggested we visit the fern grotto in Kauai so tuesday was our day to take the tour. The boys spent the morning surfing at a new beach that was much more difficult than the first day… Continue Reading →

Surfing and dinner out

Our second day started with a bit of a sleep in (6:15 am). We spent the morning hanging around the house, scott made eggs, we ate some more fruit and niko tried out a few of elsie’s things (binki and… Continue Reading →

Day at the beach

We spent yesterday afternoon down at the beach – I was hoping the bean would take a nap (she didn’t) – turns out we have the entire beach to ourselves (another reason julie rocks!) Thats us with the pop up… Continue Reading →

Welcome to paradise!

Well we made it to Kauai in one piece … Elsie had a day of firsts … first trip to hawaii, and first time in business class – mommy had to wait till she was 26 before she got to… Continue Reading →

Team Vacation

We are off for our annual vacation with the Johnstons! This time we are headed to the beaches of Kauai, Hawaii! Julie did all of our planning (because she rocks) – and found us a beautiful house on the East… Continue Reading →

Hi Donna!

Donna was in town for some HP leadership training and was able to come down and meet miss elsie lane!

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