Hair today, gone tomorrow

Before: Cute little pigtail antennas...
(day) After: Moose antlers.

From House to Home

We've been doing quite a few house projects as of lately. Lane is putting in french doors to his office (to help keep Danelle), I have been doing lots of sewing (pillows, curtains, seat cushions, etc.) and Danelle has been keeping busy trying to help with our projects.
Before:Semi- After, it's not done yet, but he is putting some pretty windows up above too.
The seat cushion I made, to go on the bench Lane made. Oh, and don't worry, he also made the bookcase, remember from here. I found these magnetic chalkboards at Pottery Barn Kids- cute huh!The faux roman shades that I made... and the molding/paint job that Lane and I worked on (bad lighting sorry if it's hard to see it).

Mt. Bonnell

I have a list of a couple of things I want to do in Texas, and this was one of them! The view from the top was beautiful.


You could see downtown from one side, and the lake from the other.

And yes, people are still out with their boats...in January... (it was in the 70's).

One more from Colorado...

So many things to catch up with on the blog, but for now here's another pic from the trip.

Lane's Dad (who skied 4 days in a row!!!), Lane Jr., me and Max (brother in law) taking the picture.

Colorado Ski Trip-Rocky Mountain High!

Ok NOW, we are done with all of our Holiday Travels...yeah and it's only January 14th! We've had a lot of fun doing so much traveling, but I think I speak for Danelle and Lane when I say we are all glad to be back in our own beds and not living out of a suitcase!

Lane's family decided to do their Christmas up in Colorado and so they rented a house and let us all go Skiing/Snowboarding while the kids were babysat by them! Brilliant right!? And it just so happens I have a snowboard and all the gear...

Danelle loved hanging out with grandparents, all the aunts, uncles and cousins- her and Dietrich got a long really well! This is them hanging out in the "Pirates Cove"
Opening Christmas presents- they were a pretty good team!
Well, she did get a little distracted... this is a pretty common occurrence around here lately...how do I keep her from eating paper all the time!?!
My brother-in law has some ski pictures so I'll have to get them from him, but here's a shot of the gorgeous view... this makes me love snowboarding that much more! We couldn't have asked for better weather!Lane and I took a hike up to Adam's Falls and it was quite peaceful with the snow falling and the beautiful mountains.
This is on a drive, checking out Lane's old house where he grew up in and all the places he would hunt and fish.

The deer that he missed. ;) kidding
After his family left on Friday we stayed till Monday with my friend Tracie and did some more visits and sightseeing. This is at Garden of the Gods. I love how it will snow, but then clear up and there will be blue skies and warm weather- I love Colorado!Danelle decked out in her "ASPEN Style" ski outfit.

Thanks Tracie for letting us stay with you! I hope Brooke wasn't too traumatized having Danelle terrorize her all weekend!
*sorry I only had a picture of us first thing in the morning!

New Year's Traditions

These are our "new" New Year's Traditions! We started to have crab legs for New Years Eve back in PA with some friends of ours the past couple of years, and decided to keep it going.

On New Years Day we decided to start doing fondue (how can you not when you husband has access to so many wonderful cheeses). We just got one of these babies, and what better way to start off the new year (and good eating) than with melted cheese, and chocolate dipped sweets!