Eliebelly's Blog: December 2008

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Hanging with Papa

Making imaginary cookies with Papa while Mommy & Daddy made real ones.

Chillin' watching the big screen with Papa.

After Elie saw Santa in Colorado, we tracked him down in LA (that Santa is one busy dude) and he was at the Bass Pro Shops. When it was our turn I put Elie down and she literally RAN to him and climbed up in his lap. It was so stinking cute, it made her Grammy cry.

Elie and Grammy with "Froth-ieee" before seeing Santa. Elie loves Frosty, she has a book and you have to sing it to her at least 10 times a day.

I am Goin' Back to Cali

"What iz up my hommies?

Moving walkways for babies are like treadmills for dogs and HIGHLY recommended before boarding the plane.

Before we left for Cali, we celebrated Xmas in Colorado. I got a new camera, so let bloggin begin! We hung out with the Schmidtleins and Elie and Katherine had a blast together. Above they are watching The Little Mermaid.

Here's Katherine in her daily uniform of Broncos jerseys and princess dresses. She had fun showing Elie all her toys and pulled her around everywhere by her hand, it was very cute.

One of Elie's Xmas presents...a Hello Kitty over sized coloring book. She LOVES to color. Here her Mimi is showing her how to color red!

Friday, December 19, 2008

Santa!

Hey Elie liked Santa! I think warming her up to him by showing him who he is at home. We were at the club's nursury Christmas party and we colored and made crafts and hung out with Santa. It was fun. I'll blog the rest of the pictures later!

Sunday, December 14, 2008

While the cats were away...

Elie stayed with Grandma (a.k.a. Mimi) this weekend while we were gone and she got to do all kinds of fun things. Like play with Mimi's iPhone while sitting underneath the bathroom sink.

And Mom had this tent for dogs, but thought Elie would like it too, you be the judge...

Hut Trip!

I have no clue who Janet is, but we snowshoed up to this cabin at tree line this weekend. It was 6 miles in and out and up and down. It involved some work but worth every minute, the Colorado backcounrty is unbelievable! It started snowing when we got on the trial and didn't stop ALL weekend.

This picture was taken (by someone else) on a day hike out of the cabin from the top of the peak overlooking the hut.

View from the balcony and the soon-to-be sledding hill.

Another view, this is the way we came up.

Building the sledding hill, and a great one it was! It was built luge style and had two small jumps and one huge one at the end (not pictured). I am the one in the light gray jacket working on one of the jumps. Jimmy is on the right bending over with the sled.

Jimmy and I one the hike down out in the winter wonderland.

Part of the group hiking out. One of the best parts of the weekend was the people we were with. Some old friends and some new and nothing but cards, drinking and f-u-n (and a little snow)!

This is what the trail looked like.

Bye Bye wilderness...Hello heat!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Random pics...

We put Elie in her little robe after her baths. If you put the hood up she looks like a sand trooper from Star Wars.

Reading, reading, reading, one of her favorite pastimes. We read Frosty the Snowman at least 10 times a day, and the best part is the thumpty, thump, thump part at the end were you have to stomp your feet.

T-r-o-u-b-l-e, with a capital "T". This reminds of the old Jane's Addiction song, Got Caught Stealing.

Jimmy was out of town for a few days and Elie carried around his Eddie Murray shirt the whole time, at one point I just decided she should wear it, it's till a little big.