Category Uncategorized
Here is elsie in her flowers … If you take a closer look you will see that she had a fight with the sidewalk and her nose lost …
On Sunday we headed over to Lake Valley to have a visit with the Spruill’s – today we tried out our new giraffe suit (me tarzan, you jane)… I wasn’t sure if Elsie would be into the water, but instantly… Continue Reading →
Ok, I took way too many photos so I am breaking the Johnston visit into three posts – filled to the brim with photos of the kids 🙂 On Saturday we woke up and had some play time and a… Continue Reading →
Niko, Scott, Jul and Sumo came to Colorado for memorial weekend … we had so much fun. Friday afternoon we headed to the airport to pick up the crew … Elsie was all decked out in her pig tails and… Continue Reading →
More of our mother’s day weekend in Montana … Pat and Shelley hosted a fabulous dinner for us on Saturday so we could spend some more time relaxing and hanging out … here is grammie with Elsie and Finley doing… Continue Reading →
We headed up to Montana for Mother’s day weekend – Grammie, Elsie and I did the Montana Women’s Run – well it was more of a walk with tons and tons of strollers. We walked with Heather, Shelley, Riley and… Continue Reading →
the spruill’s hosted a Zinfandel Tasting on Saturday and I offered to do some collateral for the event. There were 10 participants tasting 7 wines so I created color coded wine tags and tasting notes. This time I added a… Continue Reading →
Amy has started a play group and this month they met at the Golden Community Center in Golden. This was our first time attending but we couldn’t pass up swimming and social time with other babies. The pool was awesome… Continue Reading →
Elsie got a fabulous Tea Set and Tea hat from the Johnston’s for her birthday. She is still learning how to be a lady who sips tea, and doesn’t destroy the nice tea settings mom has put out… We invited… Continue Reading →
Heather and Finley came down for a visit and we had so much fun! We captured some photos of the girls playing on the grass – we can tell they are already best friends. here they are gossiping about their… Continue Reading →
Grammie gave Elsie her first crayons and they spent some time coloring together. For those of you who don’t know, my mom is an amazing drawer – if you ever have the chance to play pictionary fight to have her… Continue Reading →
We had a great time at Elsie’s first birthday … we had lots of friends join us for an afternoon of chatting and eating. Elsie was a princess in her birthday outfit from Heather and Finley (who flew in to… Continue Reading →
We had so much fun with Elsie’s first birthday. I love working on little details (it drives mark crazy) but I definitely think the details make the party. We found some fun headbands in the target $1 area and that… Continue Reading →
Last Wednesday I was officially done making breast milk. I slowly weaned down and had my last pump at Google. I remember when Elsie was born and I said “If I can make it 3 months then I will be… Continue Reading →
This past weekend we headed out to NYC for the Harad/Stone Wedding (more on this later) – we packed up our little bean and headed off to the airport friday afternoon. We did not buy Elsie a seat for the… Continue Reading →
I am at the office today … when I work from home Andrea has elsie walk into the office to show off her daily outfit (Andrea dresses this little munchkin up right!). Here is what I received in my email… Continue Reading →
Elsie was playing in her room and I found her in her closet undo’ing all of my organization … clearly she has a better system She also now seems to only want to hold her bottle by herself Little Miss… Continue Reading →
This afternoon we did a quick photo shoot with Elsie … I am having some custom stamps made for her 1st birthday invitations … an English Garden Tea Party! Here she is posing in a flower headband …
Elsie is officially walking! Well I guess you would call it wobbling … the funny thing about our bean is that she had decided to do things in her own style. She isn’t able to get to a sitting position… Continue Reading →
With Easter coming so early this year, Elsie decided it was time to channel the Easter Bunny
On Friday we decided to head out to the Aquarium for a quick viewing and some dinner. This was our first visit to the aquarium since Elsie was born and we hoped she would enjoy the underwater adventure. We started… Continue Reading →
Today we headed to the Children’s Museum in Denver … Even though Elsie was little under the weather she had lots of fun… We started in the soft play area where there were lots of fun things to do, first… Continue Reading →
Lisa and Dirk are engaged!! Congratulations Dirk – you couldn’t of picked a better fiance! 🙂
Elsie had her last night of swimming lessons … there was no official graduation but if there was she would have graduated with HONORS!! Here is some final night photos:
We have a new (and improved!) nanny*. This past Monday Andrea started as Elsie’s full time care taker – Elsie is already in heaven. Andrea spends the day playing, reading and holding elsie’s fingers as she endlessly walks around the… Continue Reading →
well yesterday… We had a low key day (final swim lessons) but we did open a Valentine from Grammie and Grampa which included some fun books and this very cute pink (of course) hoodie! Sadly dad was under the weather… Continue Reading →
Elsie started swimming lessons at our local rec center … she is a star-baby! We signed up with Kyla (one of Elsie’s friends and a former birth class couple). These lessons focused on acclimating the little star babies to water… Continue Reading →
I am a reader of a blog called babygadget (along with a whole host of other baby, design, party blogs) which highlights the new cool must haves for babies and parents. I constantly find packages at my door and then… Continue Reading →
We headed up to the mountains this past weekend for our first ski trip with the Spruills. We headed up Friday afternoon to avoid the predicted snow … no such luck… Fortunately the roads were just slightly wet and the… Continue Reading →
I am pretty sure the geese were having a convention on the 4th fairway – maybe they didn’t get the word that the caucus was in Iowa. Honk if you love OBAMA!
we went out for new years dinner with Heidi and Jason (who recently moved to Colorado – right down the street!) at the GreenBriar Inn. We had a 6 course menu complete with champagne and some yummy wine! It was… Continue Reading →
We got elsie some baubles for New Years … She preferred to chew them instead of wear them
We took a walk yesterday and stopped to let Elsie have some snow time in her Pink Patagonia snow suit …
Here are some shots of elsie enjoying her christmas loot … Chewing (favored activity) on her christmas bear from the Jost’s Playing with her Elmo Table from Riley, Heather, Finley and Robb! New duds from Grammie Elsie wondering why Cricket… Continue Reading →
We were up in Montana with my folks this weekend and attended the annual Santa brunch at the Yellowstone Country Club. Elsie was all dressed up ready for her big meeting with Ho Ho! (Finley showed us how to put… Continue Reading →
We had quite a thanksgiving this year in Colorado – we were lucky to have my aunt sandy, uncle rod, grandma ruby, Kev, tyler, dylan, lauren and of course my parents. We had a wonderful dinner! We usually spend turkey… Continue Reading →
this weekend we all went to Lucille’s for some yummy breakfast – we brought along elsie’s travel booster chair so she could be included. I snapped these photos because it tickled me to see what a big girl she has… Continue Reading →
