In preparing a kids craft project for Father’s Day I enjoyed going through the multitude of father-daughter photos on our hard drives. Here are some of our family favorites to treasure and make into art!
More on that soon.
What a loving, fun father! Those are some great times.
David’s grandmother passed away on Friday in New Mexico. In the midst of our sadness, we’re focusing on cherishing our memories of her and celebrating her long life.
She was a classy, creative, kind, smart, funny, amazing woman.
With her children:
With David, her first grandchild in 1980:
At our wedding in 2005:
In 2008, meeting her great-granddaughter for the first time:
A year later, in 2009:
Giving Great-Grandma kisses:
Celebrating her 80th birthday:
We shall treasure these photos. Miss you, Grandma.
Last month we headed East for some family time and cousin Rachel’s wedding. We took several hundred photos during the two weeks we were in New Jersey, here are some of our favorites. (And, yes, Miss Leyba was the flower girl and, no, she didn’t walk down the aisle (tiny melt down at the last minute). But she was the only person at the wedding to dance for FOUR HOURS STRAIGHT at the reception! Aside from cousin Rachel, Miss Leyba was the belle of the ball!)
After our stint in Colorado Springs, we headed up to Fort Collins so Miss Leyba could meet her Uncle Lee. We had so much fun together!
Just as Miss Leyba adored my sister Laura from the get-go, she felt an affinity for David’s brother. She loved him immediately! (I think they are the only people she has felt completely at ease and comfortable with from the moment she met them. Pretty amazing. I think she sees bits of David and I in our siblings. Or she gets totally confused and thinks that they are us…!)
We did all sorts of fun, chill activities. We took Miss Leyba to her first bar:
Lee gave Miss Leyba her first drum lesson:
Playing the drums with Uncle Lee from Carrie on Vimeo.
And the dog! Miss Leyba adored Lee’s dog… Nona however was not so sure about Miss Leyba. Luckily our daughter saw this as a challenge (and crawled around after her) and laughed hysterically any time Nona growled or barked (don’t worry — we kept a close eye on them!). That dog had such an affect on Miss Leyba that she started pointing and saying “dog-g” when she was chasing her around. SO cute!
(Incidentally we slept so well on Lee’s memory foam mattress that we are thinking about budgeting for a king sized one. Then our guests can sleep on our queen. Like the sound of that, Mom and Dad?!)
Thank you for having us, Lee! We all had a wonderful time.
Last month (okay, it’s more like two months ago now) several close friends from high school visited us. We had a wonderful day picnicing and touring around Chateau St. Jean together. David and I so enjoyed showing off the beautiful area where we live and they got to meet Miss Leyba. Of course, we also enjoyed time with each other! We had such a great visit.
“Do you think Mom will notice if I help myself to a strawberry?” (Nice try, kid!)
Unpacking our spread of delicious cheese, fruit, homemade bread, and tomato/mozzarella salad.
Hanging with Daddy.
Char enjoying the glorious, hot weather.
Ick! Thanks, Alice, for snapping this photo instead of taking my shoe out of her mouth.
Playing with their respective toys.
This fountain was a big hit! Alice even helped Miss Leyba put her feet in.
Love this family portrait!
This is so us. I’m trying to crack her up and she’s so over it.
The Spritzer Leyba girls with Charleen, Yuni, and Alice. This photo so belongs in our alumni magazine.
(Can you tell Miss Leyba skipped her afternoon nap?! Where is my smiley girl?!)