Father's Day

Father's Day Hike up Mt. Falcon


View of Red Rocks Amphitheater from our hike.



Followed by Father's Day Out at La Fogata

Then Father's Day Pool Time

And finally, Father's Day Dairy Queen where we learned that Hadley is purely a vanilla girl. To which I again ask, whose daughter is she?

A Rose is a Rose

Unless it is a rose masked as Hanky Panky panties.


Yes they are still my favorite underwear. Yes, I threw out all of my other underwear and replaced them with Hanky Panky. Yes their one size fits all lasted through my entire pregnancy. Though DG told me afterwards that their lovely lacy delicateness now looks a bit like old dish towels.



And yes, it was a wonderful Valentine's Day. Complete with pancakes for dinner. I'm sorry it would have been fancier if DG hadn't taken me out and gotten me all liquored up the night before.

Give Away Day - Lavender Rice Pack and Pin

We are so excited here at Allbeehive today, because we LOVE giving things away. Especially with the financial crunch, FREE gifts are like finding $10 in last years winter coat.

Today, one lucky person can win not one, but TWO homemade gifts. Give them to someone and save yourself a trip to the store, OR keep them for yourself. To enter, read the rules below and enter a comment today between 7:00am - 8:00pm midnight (MST) and let me know your favorite Christmas Song. Be sure to sign your comment as anonymous entries can't win. At the end of the day Tomorrow morning, I will throw all entries into a hat and let Hadley randomly pick the winner.

Then after you have commented here, go to Sew, Mama, Sew! and find the list of all the other participants in the FREE Holiday Give Away. Go win yourself a bunch of stuff!

FREE GIFT #1 - Lavender Rice Pack

Fifteen years ago, I threw some rice in a muslin bag, made a flannel pillow case for it, and voila I had myself a hot rice pack. To this day, I still use this rice pack every fall when it starts to get cold. Today's GRAND PRIZE is a lavender rice pack. It is 21" X 5" which is perfect to sling around your neck. The soothing moist heat is good for sore aching muscles, back pain, cramps, and clogged milk ducts. You can also use it to heat your toes, bed or a crib. It stays warm for at least an hour, and I personally go to bed with it every night. It's great since we are saving $$ trying to keep the house a little cooler this winter. It also comes with a fleece case that you can remove and wash. It's not like I'm saying you're dirty or anything, but believe me it's going to get dirty with overuse.

FREE GIFT #2 - Healing ArtScapes Pin

DG works with an awesome group of people at the Denver Newspaper Agency and in his department, one of the other designers, Kim designs these incredible pieces of jewelry at really good prices. Her items always fly off the shelves at the craft fairs. She has a line of the cutest necklaces made from decorative paper and scrabble tiles. Please check out and bookmark her Etsy shop here which will be up and running this week-end. The 2nd prize in today's give away is this lovely little pin.

RULES:
Prize will be shipped to U.S. Residents only. (Sorry South Korea!)
One entry per person.
Entries must come through comments on the blog today (12/3/08) between 7:00am - 8:00pm midnight (MST).
Please include a valid email address in your comment.
My immediate family ie. the man who sleeps in my bed at night, his parents and sister, Hadley's Nana, and her husband AKA my father are not eligible. Though they are all welcome to comment with their favorite XMas songs.

Now don't be stingy, email this post to all of your friends too and let everyone play along. I will reveal the winner on Thursday by noon and send them an email.

NOTE: Due to the number of bloggers who are participating, I have extended the contest to midnight tonight.

Craft Fair a Go Go

Today was the big craft fair at the Denver Newspaper Agency. Here are some pics of our table. I was quite pleased with the presentation considering our obvious lack of craft fair experience.


These are the bibs and burp cloths that I worked tirelessly on. Ok, I'm going to go take a nap now. zzzzz.


My mom made the most gorgeous napkins and placemats too.


It's official, the Yuletide can begin with non-stop Bailey's on Ice, Celine Dion singing O Holy Night, and dogs wearing Santa Hats.

Don't forget to stop in tomorrow for our Gift Give Away.

Happy Halloween

We're in the spirit here with fun lights and good Halloween tunes. We got this holiday projector years ago for Christmas, but it has ghosts, bats, and a witch filter as well. They didn't come out as well in the video as I would have liked.

Here is DG's Halloween playlist that is booming out of a wireless outdoor speaker for the neighborhood kids.

Monster Mash
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
Twilight Zone (Movie Theme)
Love Potion No. 9
Psycho: Suite For Strings
I Put A Spell On You - Screamin Jay Hawkins
In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
Batman/Robin Hood - Orlando Pops Orchestra
Clap For The Wolfman - The Guess Who
Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Halloween Scary Sounds Scene 1 and 4

Have a safe and fun night.

Camping in the Backyard

I am a big fan of sleeping in the back yard, especially if I've had a few drinks. DG and I recently took an inventory of all of our camping equipment and decided it would be fun to have a test run in the back yard before we headed up into the mountains. So we invited Cyn and Jeff over to try out their new HUGE tent for a 4th of July sleep over.


One of the benefits of not being in the middle of the woods is that I was able to cook dinner without a propane tank. I made homemade pizza (ricotta, garlic, tomato, basil and an onion red pepper), along with a spinach, almond, strawberry salad. For dessert, we skewered marshmallows and cooked them over tea lights to make s'mores.

Oh yeah, and the other benefit of being at home is that you wouldn't be able to have a blender in the woods to make up a couple batches of my fresh margaritas. We squeezed the whole 5lb bag of limes because in the my-eyes-are-too-big-for-my-delicate-constitution mind, I was thinking that I alone could drink a pitcher. Needless to say a few sips of my first one and I was done for the night.

Following dinner, we lit a few colored smoke bombs, and some kid friendly sparkling bubble fireworks.

Here are Cyn and Jeff setting up their new 6 person tent that they just got at REI.

And here is me in my brother's tent. Though it may look like I am casting DG a come hither look, I am actually wondering aloud how many ladies my brother had lured back to this very tent after all the Grateful Dead and Phish shows he went to in Indiana. Though I had to spell a lot of what I was saying because there were children around.

Happy Red, White and Blue