A Weekend at Breck

Mrs. R and I at the top! Notice our matching snowbunny hats :)

Mr. and Mrs. L, trying to stay warm!
Mr. and Mrs. R

More House Makeovers!!

The guest bathroom-- Mr. L had some, shall we say, not-so-pretty mats on the floor that matched his old blue towels. They didn't match our new blue towels we registered for. I was tired of the mis-matched blues, so I found these 2 rugs. Makes me happy! And the white one is heaven on your feet :)
Living room makeover!! It's amazing what pillows will do! I was going to go the safe route and get a chocolate brown quilted faux-silk pillow and a light blue one with brown leaves. But then I saw these orangey-red ones and fell in love with the bold splash of color. I LOVE them! It's amazing what they do to make the room more colorful, comfortable, and dare I say luxurious!
They are my new inspiration for the room, that still looks a lot like a bachelor pad. I want to go with a costal southern type look. More photos as I get the room more "finished."

More Christmas

The tree, post presents. We totally forgot to take a "before" photo...

Hung by the Chimney with care...
You can see our nativity in this one.
My Birthday Cake :) Complete with 4 layers of peppermint icing! We also totally forgot a "before" photo :( But it was fantastic!
Mrs. L opening presents. Still a little sleepy I guess...

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