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Cabin Rain

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

August has been absolutely beautiful, as it often is in the Pacific Northwest. If there is going to be a cool and drizzly weekend in late summer, though, you can bet that we will have the intiution to pick it. Obviously, this means that we picked this past weekend (5 months ago!) as our cabin [...]

Monkey Butt

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Allosaurus is one lucky little dude.
So am I. I grew up with 3 grandmothers, 2 grandfathers, and a great-grandmother for my entire childhood. Most of us lived in the same area, so I saw them all the time. And as for the grandma and grandpa who lived far away? We got to go on spectacular [...]

Stags

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

There were stags in the front yard of our bed and breakfast! One was a mature three-pointer (to the left), and the other was a scrawny teenage stag (to the right) hanging out with a cool older dude.

So, here’s what happened: Josh went to return our keys at the main house, and while he [...]

Garden of the Gods

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

We watched a video at the visitor’s center which told us that the Garden of the Gods was thus named because two men (can’t remember who!) were surveying the area together. The one man said, “This would make a great beer garden!” His friend replied, “No, this is a garden of the gods!” [...]

Gold Mines and Bordellos

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

The second full day of our trip, we drove up to Cripple Creek. Cripple Creek sits very near to the top of the Continental Divide at roughly 9000 feet in elevation… whew! It’s a famous gold mining town just over an hour outside of Colorado Springs, and while there, we visited a gold [...]

Cliff Dwellings

Monday, July 12th, 2010

This is the view of the Rockies from the entrance to the Manitou Cliff Dwellings. We’re less than 10 minutes away from our gorgeous bed and breakfast!

Courtney in front of the actual cliff dwellings. Considering that I am not that tall (5′4″ish), imagine how much smaller the people who lived here were!

Keith spent [...]

Home again

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

We are home again! For those who didn’t know, we took the week off from work and met Keith’s parents in Colorado Springs for a lovely 5 days of hiking and eating and eating some more. Before you ask: there was no particular reason we chose Colorado Springs. Seriously. It was [...]

Big Mama & Big Daddy

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Keith and I have a wonderful friend who grew up in the South. When I told her about the epic quest to find unique names for the baby’s grandparents (keep in mind: 2 grandmas, 2 grandpas, 3 great-grandmas, and 2 great-grandpas — whew!), she told me about the time she met an ex-boyfriend’s mother. The woman immediately said, [...]

Whoops

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

If you are going to call/email and ask, “How did you celebrate your first Mother’s Day?”, let me save you the trouble. I celebrated by taking my child to work with me! Given the quantity of wonderful moms that work at my library, I opted to let them spend the day at home with their [...]

Dear Diary

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

I am PREGNANT. In case the term seems unfamiliar, you could also say:

bun in the oven
knocked up
in a family way
preggo
expecting
incubating a parasite
gestating
in the motherly way

Whatever way you want to say it, I am growing a little human! The munchkin should be finished up and making a spectacular debut sometime around October 25th. We are very, [...]