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 →
a few shots of elsie in her chariot – getting ready for a walk to the park with bernie!
Elsie is now infatuated with Lola, she giggles as she runs by and loves to have licks (even on her face – which is like hitting gold for Lola). She loves her puppy! (this little outfit from the herman’s is… Continue Reading →
we got lola a halloween costume – she is going to be a spider dog. The best part about the costume is that she turns into a statue spider dog when you put the costume on her back, We may… Continue Reading →
Remember so many months back how excited we were to get Solar panels installed – oh the joy of a new karma-positive addition to our home? Well, within a couple of weeks, we found that some duffer with an overpriced… Continue Reading →
On Sunday we woke up early and headed out to the boulder reservoir to cheer jessica on as she ran her first half marathon in the Boulder Backroads Race. I made a sign Mark and Elsie watched for Jess here’s… Continue Reading →
a cute little bat hat to start your october off!
We got the girls some fun sunday cheer outfits for their favorite football team… THE BRONCOS! The girls sat in the prime seats to watch the big game There were a few good moments… Amy helped Saffron cheer since she… Continue Reading →
Shelley gave us this cute outfit a few months ago and Elsie is finally fitting into it (well the pants are still a bit big) – as you can see she thinks she looks pretty cute!
we met up with some of our birthing class families for a picnic in the park – Elsie is the oldest and Sydney (to the left is the youngest) From elsie (around clockwise), sydney, kyla, hazel, ryan.
We got the jumperoo because we read about all of the fun of the saucer and the jumperoo combined into one. The contraption takes up a large part of our living room and is really cramping our clean lines. We… Continue Reading →
I have noticed that my cingular service S-U-C-K-S! In Kauai there were times when scott, jul and mark had all bars and I had no service. We suspected that my crappy cell service forcefield was the issue, but we stopped… Continue Reading →
today we headed to the mall for some shoppin with grammie and grampa – Elsie didn’t love looking at clothes and was on the edge of a melt down so grammie kept moving along. We decided to stop into the… Continue Reading →
We had some friends from our Birthing class, Tara and Dan, over last friday for dinner and a chance for Kyla and Elsie to meet. We had a wonderful night chatting about life and of course the babies! Dan has… Continue Reading →
while mark and I slave away at our jobs, little miss elsie bean is off having a grand time with Bernie! Bernie brought the camera a few days to document the very hard life of a baby: Swing Time Laying… Continue Reading →
Today Elsie turned 5 months old and is continuing to develop her Pterodactyl cries. Today I was going to take her to the circus to celebate this momentous day, but I couldn’t find a suitable one nearby, so we celebrated… Continue Reading →
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 →
Mandy is taking her first trip away from Elsie this week – that pesky job! So Dad is taking care of the little munchkin for a couple of nights. We did just great last night with Elsie downing a prodigious… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
A few weeks ago lola started limping and then had trouble even getting out of bed one morning. She had a cut on her back and so in to the vet we went … turns out she was so interested… Continue Reading →
Robin and Duncan sent elsie a kiwi wearing an All Blacks outfit. As you can see the bird has a large beak … That is perfect for … CHEWING!! 🙂 Don’t worry Robin and Duncan, she just got a little… Continue Reading →
Elsie had her four month old check up today (two weeks late). She was right on target for growth: Weight: 12lbs 13.5 oz (25th%) Height: 24″ (25th%) Head Circ.: 16 3/8″ (60th%) We had 4 vaccinations which seemed to be… Continue Reading →
Elsie is finally taking a bottle (of breastmilk) – this is a huge step (although right now everything goes into the mouth). Here is grammie giving elsie a meal – with Elsie’s help of course.
Mandy and I consider ourselves moderately environmentally conscious and would like to be more so. We recycle all containers and papers (Mandy occasionally throws around the word nazi when I chide her for putting recyclables in the trash). We started… Continue Reading →
When grammie was here she had lots of tummy time with elsie – she doesn’t like tummy time and so she quickly learned to roll to her back. I will post a video but here are some quick photos of… Continue Reading →
Some photos of Elsie in her jumperoo – she is pretty excited to have her feet touch my improvised booster on the floor and of course loves to chew on the bee.
turns out the play mat that I have been having elsie play with is finally interesting to her – she played so much the other day that she fell asleep. She has her little sidekick with her in case the… Continue Reading →
Elsie has mastered the “grab and shove in my mouth” technique. Of course fingers are always yummy: Putting stuff in your mouth is soooo funny!
Donna was in town for some HP leadership training and was able to come down and meet miss elsie lane!
for the last two weeks Grammie Pammy was playing Grammie Nanny. We spent one week in Montana and one week in Colorado before we had to (sadly) put grammie back on the plane yesterday. My parents are completely set up… Continue Reading →
On Saturday we took a trip up to Chico Hot Springs just outside of livingston in paradise valley. Chico has a lodge, a bar (of course), a fantastic restaurant and the mineral pools. There is a hot smaller pool and… Continue Reading →
Last thursday we flew up to Montana for John and Karen’s wedding. here is uncle josh getting the bean ready for the big day… here she is dressed in her fabulous sun dress from Julie and Scott: It was a… Continue Reading →
We have a new member of the family … Last monday was my first day back to work 🙁 but it was also our first day with Bernie, Elsie’s nanny. Elsie loves Bernie’s songs and silly voices and overall the… Continue Reading →
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