Mark & Mandy

Swings are brilliant!

Two weekends ago we joined Saffie and crew to celebrate her first birthday (and Josh’s 35th). First birthday’s are hard … lots of people coming into your house and giving you the birthday look … saffie wasn’t so sure She much prefered the hat off (because she wanted to show off her new hair clip [...]

Mark is hoping his only little good luck charm will bring success to the Jets this year! J-E-T-S!!

Grammie and Papa got us a zoo membership this year – on Monday Mindy and Elsie headed down to Denver to check out the animals. The headed out early in the morning so they could catch the animals in their most active state. Mindy got some photos of their adventure… Of course the mama giraffe [...]

Elsie’s hair was starting to look like a full blown mullett and I decided it was time for a hair cut. We headed over to Lollylocks where Elsie chose a dinosaur to ride for the big event. I expected more from the hair cut. At one point the lady asked me if I wanted Elsie [...]

Mindy has been taking Elsie on all sorts of adventures. They began last week with a trip to the Aquarium in Denver. While its not like the Monterey Bay Aquarium – its really cool (we have a captains pass so we can frequent the underwater adventure. Elsie checked out the fresh water fish first… Then [...]

A couple of weeks ago when Grammie was visiting we decided to have a whole weekend of fun activities – first we headed to the Butterfly pavilion. In the building you start by looking at some bugs, and some aquariums – none of which are amazing … but then we opened the doors the the [...]

This is a much delayed post: pretend its really dated August 4th. After Lisa and Dirk’s wedding in Montana, Mark and I flew home without Elsie. She opted to stay in Montana with Grammie and Papa for a week of grandparent spoiling – as my mom says “but she really wanted to do it, so [...]

Ok I am finally doing my last post on Costa Rica. Four years ago we headed to Zihuatanejo (the surface of the sun) for our first Team Vacation where we agreed to meet somewhere each year – in 2006 we stayed in Colorado at Grand Lake where we were joined by the dogs, 2007 we [...]