Mark & Mandy

MESSY! But oh so delicious. Thank goodness for Shout!

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 we walked a bit (of course) Took in the surroundings and then we played with [...]

Lisa and Dirk are engaged!! Congratulations Dirk – you couldn’t of picked a better fiance!

Elsie has clearly decided that crawling is a waste of time. Instead she has taken to demanding that she be escorted around by holding onto our fingers. So to save our backs and give Elsie her own ride, we bought a stride-to-ride lion for her to push around. As you can see, she is already [...]

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 house. Here she is with the bean! (I love that each day she dresses her [...]

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 these past few days … so we are looking forward to celebrating this weekend up [...]

After a few scorching summers on our South facing back patio, we came to the conclusion that we needed a shade structure. We were lucky enough that Kevin had a contact that he worked with in Montana who supplied reclaimed lumber. Reclaimed lumber is wood that has been salvaged from old warehouses and may have [...]

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 (sadly I didn’t get any photo of the chillin’s together … but here is how [...]

Movie Star! This cute little dress was a hand-me-down from Saffron to Elsie (saffie’s head can’t fit through the top, but elsie’s pin head can) – its a super cute baby nay outfit.