Garden of the Gods... Again :)

Somebody's new favorite thing... riding in the car and sticking his head out the window :)
It seems like every time we go we find a new spot for a great photo :)

Aaaaand every time we go, Little Bo passes out on the way home :)

Little Bo's First Christmas!

Cuddle time with his Daddy!!
He chewed on that thing for at least an hour and a half-- the whole time we opened presents!

He loved his rawhide candy cane :) Notice the paw stocking...

For C-Diddy, As Promised :)

The picture was a wedding gift from Mr. and Mrs. C-Diddy and we adore it! A friend of theirs painted it by hand... it's perfect. We have it on a stand above our 3-sided fireplace so we can see it from both rooms on the first floor. Thanks C-Diddy (and to your parents too!!)

Merry Christmas From the L Family!

Merry Christmas!! More posts soon... Promise!

Inspired...

After looking at tons of pictures of Elkhounds online I got pretty inspired... This was the best I could do for now. The only one I got him to stand still for really :) He just wants to run around and eat the snow and dig up our mulch!

Somebody LOVES the snow...

New Wings Video!!

Pretty awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRJ1Nb22BFo

The Dragon

A friend of ours has a 3 year old named Maddison, or Maddie for short. They stopped by to kill a few minutes the other day and Maddie positioned herself on the stairs as the princess and kept calling Bo the dragon. Every time she came downstairs he tried to lick her face, so she said "No Dragon No!" It was so cute. So now we call Bo "The Dragon" when he's acting up or being a pain... And he does act up. I left the other day and he peed on the floor as soon as I left. I guess he didn't want me to leave. And when the snow first started we wouldn't let him out every time he scratched at the door because all he wanted to do was play, so he peed in the laundry room. Those are the only times he's had "accidents" and I think they were on purpose... Dragon.

Learning Tricks

Getting Bigger...

Taken today!
When we first got him...

Little Bo had his first vet appointment yesterday. He weighed in at 30 pounds and got a clean bill of health :) I couldn't help but see how much he'd grown... He's hit a growth spurt in the last few weeks. We noticed it when we couldn't get his collar on and off easily :) He has also discovered his big boy bark and barks at everything...

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Thanksgiving bloopers

I don't have any more photos other than this one, but I do have some funny stories :) First off, Mr. L had to have his grandma's potato rolls, which apparently were the test as to whether I've officially become a Lucas. I passed with flying colors! But he was concerned because I didn't start until the day of, and it took me until 3:00. I got up at 7 am. Crazy...
So the big blunder of the day was when I sat an empty pyrex baking dish on a burner. A burner that just so happened to still be really hot. So after a small explosion, we had tiny shards of glass all over the kitchen. So that was crazy enough, but then when we were in the last 15 minutes, Greg took a taste of the mashed potatoes and found 3 pieces of glass. We think the spoon we were using to stir them got some glass on it. But we went ahead and ate them-- nobody found any more...
We only had to make 2 grocery store runs. I had to get cream for the rolls (thought I had some but didn't), and we had to send Mr. H out for more baking pans because I couldn't find the ones we'd bought to bake the stuffing in.
So all in all, it was a great day! We didn't end up having dessert because we went over to a friends' house and played cranium. So fun... I dominated of course. We baked the pies after we got back from the slopes yesterday. They were still tasty :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Working hard...
Notice the perfectly rising potato rolls in the front :)
Even Bo got some turkey!
Mr. L carving up the turkey
The table all set and ready to eat!

Our First Time Skiing!

Gorgeous View from the top!
Just as the sun was setting
Mrs. S and her PATIENT teacher Greg... he was so great-- stayed with me the whole day
Mr. H looking cool on his snowboard
Mr. L and Mr. H in the gondola on the way up
Miss S and Mrs. L on the way up!
All 4 of us... pretty good looking group, huh?

Manitou Cliff Dwellings

We checked them out before Jimmy got off work...

Garden of the Gods part 2

Balancing Rock
On the way through the Park

Garden of the Gods!

Notice the difference between Pikes Peak and the Cheaha Mountain in Alabama-- it's the same height as Massanutten back home. Crazy!!
Mrs. L and Miss S
Miss S and Mr. H

Cog Railway to Pikes Peak :)

Miss S and Mr. H
Mr. and Mrs. L
The 4 of us at the top!

Updates

What a busy week! Here are a few updates...

Bo got really sick last week with diarrhea. We had to give him about 4 baths because he kept having accidents. He's much better now- after 2 days of a plain rice diet he finally has solid poo again! Yay!!

My sister is here!! Yup, she and her boyfriend came in for the week. They are headed to Breckenridge to ski today. Mr. L wanted me to wait so our first (yes, our first) ski experience could be together. The plan is to go Friday. Which will be good because we'll have the scoop from Miss S and Mr. H.

I'm getting excited but nervous about Thanksgiving. I have Miss S here to help, but apparently Mr. L tells me the true tryout to be the real Mrs. L is to get his Mom's potato roll recipe correct. I hope I get it right!

Yesterday we discovered the outlets at Castle Rock. One word... AMAZING!!! Lets just say Miss S and I went a little crazy at the Coach outlet... But their prices were out of this world. Half the price of their normal prices, which are outlet prices. So I said Happy Birthday to me :)

And now the bad. I took Bo out this morning just after Miss S and Mr. H left and I sprained my ankle. :( He pulled and I lost my footing and rolled it over. It hurts pretty bad so I guess that means no walk for Bo today. I hope I'll be able to Ski Friday... but with the boots locking me in, I should be ok. I hope. :(

Master Bedroom!

Before...
After!

Snow!

We got a few inches last night... So we let Bo out this morning to play!

Garden of the Gods

Our friend Greg came down from Denver to spend Veterans day with us because he and Mr. L had the day off. We went for a short walk at Garden of the Gods, then stopped in Manitou Springs for a sandwich. So fun!