Extra Pictures from the Pool

Warning: lots of pictures. (17 to be exact.)

As I was browsing though our camera photos form our time with Liberty, I saw the many of the pictures from our swimming adventure were not featured on our blog.  So I decided to show them to you.

(Note: you may have seen a few of these photos before from Our Forth of July post)

First off, we have some individual pictures, starting off with lovely Chrissa.

Next, our sweet cousin, Liberty.

Finally, me.

Here are some photos of us together.

Chocolate Chip, Caramel, and Sugar.  Our dogs are friends too!

"See," Chrissa said, "all you have to do is put your arms and legs together like a torpedo and jump in!  Here, I'll show you."  And with that Chrissa jumped off the side and gracefully did a pencil dive into the water.

She surfaced, and started swimming toward the opposite side.

"You try, Libby!"

"Here I go." my cousin said nervously.  She dove in. She did it wonderfully.

"Superb job, Liberty!" I congratulated.

"Thanks!"

Caramel and Chocolate Chip went swimming with us.

When it was time to go, they left paw tracts everywhere!

I hope you enjoyed our pictures.

Our Day At American Girl Store Denver!

Hi people!  Elizabeth and I went to the American Girl store in Denver today!  We had so much fun!

Here we are in front of the store.

Inside, all over, there lots of models displaying all the cute outfits.

"Wow." I said. "This horse is really pretty.  What's her name?"

"This is Bell.  The white horse over there is Snow White."  The model smiled. "We like to name them after Disney people."  She (I realized that I didn't know her name) looked at me curiously. "What's you name?"

"I'm Chrissa.  I'm here with my sister, Elizabeth." I said, pointing to where Elizabeth was standing. "Do you like horses?"

"I'm Katherine, and I love horses!  Sarah over there likes them too." Katherine said, pointing to the girl who was standing next to the other horse, Snow White.

"My friend Julie likes horses too." I sighed. "I wish she were here with me."

Katherine smiled understandingly.  "To get this job, I had to leave my roommate for the summer.  I miss her, just like you do."

"Chrissa!" Elizabeth called. "If you want try on all of these outfits you better get started!"

Here a few of the outfits Elizabeth and I tried on.  

We had such a fun day at American Girl store Denver!

Last Day of Liberty's visit to Colorado

Yesterday was the last day of Liberty's visit, so we decided to spend it at the Alluvial Fan, because Liberty had never been there before.

We arrived there around lunch time, so we had our picnic, then took the short hike up to the falls.

Here we are in front of the river.  Chrissa and Liberty wanted to go wading, but I thought that the river was to swift, so I insisted that the find a cove.  And they did.

"How about this, Elizabeth?  It's not to deep or anything." Chrissa asked.

"That seems safe.  Have fun wading." I said.

"Why don't you come in with us, Elizabeth?" Liberty said.

"Well, I guess I could." I replied.

"Come on in!  It's great." Chrissa said.

"This is so much fun!" Liberty exclaimed.

We took some close ups of each other.  Here's Chrissa,

Liberty,

And me.

It was so nice to have Liberty come and visit us.

Friday with Libby

Hi all!  We spent today with Libby!  For breakfast, we e went to the delicious Silver Grill Cafe.

I had their Cinnamon Roll Toast.  It was scrumptious!

We went home to pack lunch, then drove to the Dam Store, which was near Estes Park.  We didn't buy anything.

Then it started raining!

On our way back home, we stoped at "the Cherry Store" as we call it because they have free samples.

I think you can guess from the picture what we did when we got home.

Libby and I invited McKenna to join us.

Look at the strange stuff we made!

Then we had the yummy dinner Elizabeth made.

Sugar, Caramel, and Chocolate Chip enjoyed their dinner.

Our Forth of July

 Happy forth of July!  Liberty arrived yesterday, and we spent the day together.  After a quick breakfast, we went for a morning swim.

 Chocolate Chip and Caramel went swimming too!

 We swam for about an hour, then headed back to the house to get dressed in our Forth of July attire.

After dinner, we went to see fireworks.  We left our dogs at home, because as Chrissa said, "we didn't want our dog's eardrums broken".  We have had a very nice 4th of July.

More Great News!

I have wonderful news!  A week from today (Wednesday), Chrissa and I are going to the American Girl store in Denver!  We are both very excited about it.  This will be Chrissa's first time at a American Girl store!  Isn't that amazing?  We wanted to go with our cousin Liberty, who is coming to-day, but that didn't work out.  So, we are going by ourselves.

Have you ever been to an American Girl store?

A Sleepover with our Colorado Friends

Hi all you readers!  Last night we had a sleepover with all of our Colorado friends(and cousins!): Kit, McKenna, Paige, and Cara.  After a restful, sleep filled night (thanks to Elizabeth and Paige) we got up and had breakfast (again thanks to Elizabeth and Paige).

Elizabeth and Paige quietly discussed while washing the dishes, 

Cara, McKenna, Kit and I talked about anything and everything in the living room.
"Did you know that Cara is my nickname?  My real name is Caroline." Cara revealed.

"I can see why you prefer Cara over Caroline.  Caroline such a long name." Kit said, looking disgusted.  "Short names and hair are so much better than long ones."

Here's a picture of all of us.  (From left to right: Top row -McKenna, Elizabeth Grace, Cara, Kit. Bottom row- Paige and I.)

Getting up, I said, "Come on upstairs with me.  I want to show you something."  Everyone followed me as I climbed up the stairs.

"Look, I hung up some posters by my bed.  Do you like them?"

After Cara, Kit, McKenna and Paige saw the posters,  we all got dressed and went home, which was only a staircase away.  On a completely different note, I am so excited that Libby is coming TOMORROW!!!  YA!!!