Bakin' Cookies

Good-bye, Grandma Feist

Trent's grandmother passed away this morning - peacefully, in her own home. She truly was the matriarch of the Feist family, and we will all miss her dearly.

At the zoo

Last week, we were playing in the snow. Today, we had beautiful, springtime weather - 70 degrees in the middle of January! - so of course we took advantage of it and went to the zoo with some other mommies and kiddos.

Little monkeys ... oh, yeah, and some animals in the background, too.

Look ma, I'm as big as a bear!





No matter where we are, he is always excited when he finds a stick. Ah, simple pleasures.





Poor peacock couldn't get a break. I guess he's probably used to it.



Enjoying the landscape as only a little boy can.

Dude! Check out those camels. Yeah, man. Cool.



Of course, we HAD to ride the choo-choo!



Cam taking a break and riding in Ethan's stroller.



Of all the animals on the carousel, the boys wanted to ride on the peacock. They are so funny. Thanks for taking them, Kristie!



It was a fun day!

Once There Was a Snowbaby

We finally got dumped on this morning, which meant that Camden got his first official play-in-the snow day. He loved it!



Here he is flopping in the snow like a baby seal. He thought it was so funny, and he kept purposely doing belly-flops over and over and laughing.

Grandma dropped by just in time to play in the snow with us for a little while. Here she is laughing at Camden and his "baby seal" antics.

Camden tossing a snowball to Grandma. A pretty good throw for such a little guy! Look out, Grandma.

Putting some finishing touches on our pathetic little snowman. The snow was very dry and powdery, so it didn't stick together very well!

Camden was intent on using his snowmower.

The mommy snow angel and the baby snow angel.

Colorado Christmas

We stayed in Colorado for Christmas this year. Here are some highlights from our holidays! (You might notice that our little guy got a Thomas the Train wardrobe compliments of Granmy. Love the engineer hat and Thomas sunglasses!)

Of course we had to go see the City and County Building. It's tradition! It's probably too small to see on the picture, but Denver is 150 years old this year.

Starting on the 30th, we had the pleasure of a visit from Granmy and Poppa. Camden is a big fan of those two, and so are we.

We also had the honor of welcoming a little Christchild to our celebration this year. He looks so much like the one I grew up with, and Granmy even taught me how to swaddle him. I'm sure he'll be included in many of our Christmas celebration pictures in years to come.

We all spent a lot of time around the train table this year. Check out that cool set-up!

Granmy and Camden put out 12 peanut-buttter pinecones for the birdies to help celebrate the 12 days of Christmas. That's Trent in the background playing with his RC helicopter, a familiar sight these past couple of weeks.

Camden had his own ideas about what to do with the bird seed!

Granmy and Camden in their Sunday clothes after church. They're so cute.

Granmy was such a great help during her trip. It was nice for me to put my feet up and relax while someone else changed the baby and played the potty-training games (among MANY other things!) for a while.

I grew up with the Wise Men and Trent grew up with Santa, so as a compromise, we do Santa on Christmas morning (he only fills stockings at our house, no other presents besides that) and the Wise Men bring each person one present 12 days later on Jan. 6, Three Kings Day. It's a holiday celebrated all over Europe, including Spain and Germany, where Trent's and my families are from. It's a fun tradition! We love it!

It was so fun to have Granmy and Poppa join us for our Three Kings Day celebration. Here we are enjoying some hot apple pie after our Jerusalem Supper. Needless to say, my husband was about done with my picture-taking.

There were lots of shoes under the tree this year, and plenty of straw for the camels to eat!

Camden was pretty excited about the gold packages under the tree the next morning.

And those silly camels left quite a mess on the way out the door. Maybe the Wise Men will clean up after them a little better next year!

Gone Skiin'

It's hard for me to think of a better New Year's Day than an extraordinary day of skiing with the ones I love.

My hunny and me.

On top of the world! (No, seriously!) We took the highest lift in the resort (I'm told it's the highest 6-person lift in North America) to a peak of 12,060 feet, and skiied the ridge before riding the slopes all the way down. I was pretty pleased with myself that the guys got me up there. It was an amazing experience. The only thing we could see above us was the clouds, and the view was spectacular.

Daddy, Trent and me. This was the first time I've ever been up skiing with my Poppa. We had such a blast!

Trent and Trev, a dangerous combination on the slopes!

Trevor, Trent, Melody, and Poppa.