Breaking up on Spring Break

“We’re leaving,” I said to Wade as he lay in bed despondent and in pain from his broken ribs. “I feel this will be best for you to have peace and quiet. Is that okay, or should I stay and take care of you?” I asked. “No, no…go,” he anxiously replied. As much as he wanted and needed my love...

Getting broke in Ta Hell U Ride

(photos we can’t include on travel reviews) Ahhh vacation, where families play together and bond, when they are not driving each other to insanity. The time before last when we visited Telluride, Wade and I were pregnant with Brevitt. With the first, we nurtured the baby together as it grew in my...

This one’s for you Aunt Tutti!

The other night Wade looked at me strangely. “What?” I asked as I ran around the house barefoot with three boys asking me questions and following me around like baby ducks. I was getting us ready for our trip to Telluride where the boys will be competing in their last freestyle event for the...

Spring Fever

I have spring fever and with every bluebird 30+ degree day I feel the need to venture further and further away from my home and into the great outdoors. I walk along the trails with Muki pouncing on my shadow every step of the way and I soak it all in. As the suns rays turn the Juniper and Spruce trees...

Living in the Moment

My gorgeous niece   Conversation at the Popcorn Wagon “JIIIILLLLIIAAAN,” I heard as I maniacally tried to clean the house for a showing. I slowly made my way down the stairs dreading what I was about to find, my mother standing helplessly in a deep puddle of vegetable oil that had slipped out of...

Surviving the Holidays

\ This holiday season, with two sisters, our mother, the husbands, eight children, our cousin Peter visiting from Los Angeles and two dogs, the energy should be bottled. Every year I forget what it’s like to have the kids home from school where the weather makes getting outside with teams of kids...