Pre-Christmas post

Well, It has been a little while since the first posting, but I am going to come up to date so that there can be a Christmas posting independently.

For Thanksgiving we were scheduled to go to Colorado and Wyoming. We tried to go to the Wyoming vs. Colorado State University boarder war rival football game. Unfortunately Mandy and Ainsley both got sick the weekend before we were to leave. We decided that sitting in the late November, Wyoming weather for a game would not be the best idea, so we ended up delaying out outbound flight stayed in
Denver for the whole trip.

Mom and Ainsley had a lot of fun together. We went to the Denver Aquarium.

Ainsley watched the boy playing more than the otters.

Ainsley enjoyed the simulated flash flood and was being silly.

They had some great snakes that were much easier to
photograph since the fish were not very well light,
but the snakes were. I tried not to use a flash especially with life in darker tanks.

This was the third aquarium that Ainsley has been to.
She loved this one just as much as the ones in Seattle and Tacoma.
Around this tunnel a Green Sea Turtle was swimming.

She gets excited when she is able to run across a room to me.

Back at Mom’s Ainsley played with Abby and
May since she was missing Daisey. The dogs were
great with Ainsley. We have been able to teach her to be
gentle with dogs.

Mom and Stanford built this sand box for the
Greyhounds as well as for grandchildren. This was
the first sand that she has played in. I guess we will
have to do something about getting her to the
beach this summer.

Ainsley and Daddy in the hammock on grandma’s back porch.

As seen on the BlueHeron blog, Ainsley on Grandpa’s 55 Chrysler.

We had Thanksgiving at Gwen and Kent’s.
This Mandy with our niece Ellie. She is very cute and smiley.

Gwen, Kent, and Ellie

The weekend we got back, we were excited to decorate
for Christmas. Here is our house. The photo with the
spots is with a flash, and is illuminating the mist.

Original reports said that we would have 6+ inches of snow starting to fall on Friday.
Well after a lot of rain, we finally got about 2 inches last night. So, today Ainsley had her
first snow experience. We all had fun but got cold. So we came in and watched Curious
George and drank hot chocolate.

Daisey enjoyed the snow too.

We hope everyone has a great Christmas!

Halloween Fun

Ainsley loves to share her adventures. She felt that the Picasa album was fun but didn't adequately convey her true adventures, so we have started this blog. We will start with the most resent.

A couple of weeks ago we went to a pumpkin patch to pick from this years crop. As soon as we arrived Ainsley took off looking for that perfect pumpkin.

Her method was to pat each and every pumpkin that she came across, but always kept the next one in sight.


Everyone took turns following Ainsley through her search for perfection.


Finally she was caught and we were able to leave.




For Halloween Ainsley was a fairy, and one of her friends was too. They were very good about sharing candy.


This weekend Grandma and Grandpa came over from Eastern Washington to visit. Ainsley immediately demanded to be read to. Later she got a piano lesson from Grandma.



We all had a nice Halloween in the new house in a neighborhood. Ainsley liked to see the kids in costume but was too nervous to give out any candy. We hope everyone had a good time too. We are looking forward to the coming holidays. We will be in Denver for Thanksgiving and home for Christmas.