Steamboat 2012

We finally made it to Steamboat last month for one of the last open days on Howelson Hill. It was sunny, nearing 50 degrees, and pretty darn comfy when the wind wasn't blowing. Nice corn. A perfect day for this.



Yeah, I'm going to get all picture indulgent on this one, so click for more...

LJ Thanksgiving 2011

Many Thanksgiving traditions were observed this year.
For example: the cheesy dinnertime photo.

See also: lacking at least one pilot.
[Edited to add: STEVE! I just noticed. Bad Steve. (but funny)]
And then: Baby Nine Ball.

It got a little more cut throat this year.


And a lot less random. I had to put an end to TELLING the baby which balls to move.

Good thing one of the family was willing to let E work out the tension!

Family

As I mentioned, much of the Baumgartner clan got together for Steve and Missy's anniversary (Mike, you were missed!). Getting my family together is always good camera fodder, even beyond my nephew's photobombing skills. Speaking of, Ray has some of his own:

The rest of the family cleans up pretty well...



Some are better behaved than others. No comment on my own.

It was nice to see (almost) everyone in one place! Steve and Missy, I'm working on a book and a CD. Soon.

Many Celebrations

My brother and sister-in-law had a special celebration at the church to celebrate their 20th anniversary. I'll skip the details here, as I feel like those are theirs, but I know several people are waiting for me to get pictures together. So.. guys. I got the pictures edited. Here are a few glimpses of the ceremony.





Congratulations on 20 years and best wishes for many, many more!

La Junta Xmas 2010

So. This is late. And a little self-indulgent, or at least family-indulgent. But there were so many funny highlights in the album, well, it's my blog, and if you don't have five minutes to spare... spread it out over the week or something.

Watch for cue ball obsession, **evil wooden puzzles**, baby nine ball (and the baby nine ball commissioner), cheetah pants, fetch, and diner dairy product catapults.

(You might want to give it time to load or play it without watching - weird pixellated transitions mean it hasn't fully loaded.)

Last Glance

Two more quick images from the holidays...

Eamon, modeling one of his gifts from the Grandparents Grunzinger (which he was supposed to wear to La Junta, but promptly tossed his cookies on five minutes after this.. he's good like that). (More modeling coming as soon as I have kiddo and Ray in the same state.) Oh, and showing off his newfound pulling-up-in-the-crib skills (that tent and the vertical bars? slow him down).
Yup, Born 2 Ride, Baby!
And I did get this on my cameraphone after all... the glint by Mike's mouth is the spoon he's entertaining Eamon with. Kiddo loves his cousins.

Baumgartner Christmas 09

Despite Ray's schedule, we did get to do one family Christmas- and, fortunately, even overlapped with my brother Steve's family. With this many pilots around, that's decent.

I'll warn you now, there are a lot of photos- most of them hiding behind this link.

The boys

My nephews seemed to have a lot of fun with Eamon. Most notably, they invented the sport of baby foosball, of which no good pictures were taken because they all look like fuzzy groups of quick-moving boys.

They also shared their video games with Eamon.

(They couldn't convince him that the controller worked better with fingers, not tongue. I think he crashed a lot.)

They hung out. A lot. These just make me smile.

Eamon thinks his cousins are pretty darn fun. He's been sleeping off all of that excitement for the last two days!

(Kaya had to work, but she did get to go downtown with us.. more on that tomorrow..)