Jolie's first snow!

I see some snowflakes on Jolie! What's that on your nose, Jolie?

She loves jumping and running in the snow!

What does snow smell like Jolie???

Jolie loves the snow!!

Jolie, Jolie, Jolie

We just can't get enough of Jolie! This is her blanket. For some reason she always likes to sleep with part of her body on the blanket and part of it not on the blanket. I don't know why? Shawn always tries to put her back on the blanket. She loves to take her paw and rub her face!

Who is waking me up?

It's the cow that goes moooooo!

Lots of pics of Jolie!

We have lots of pics to share! This is a beautiful elk we saw at Estess Park. Unfortunately, a poacher killed it for no reason only a few weeks after we saw him. Very, very sad, but we are glad that we all got to see him. This is a picture of Jolie at around 4 months playing with Jake. She loves to play with Jake. Jake is a lot of fun and very gentle.

Jolie loves to watch the neighbor dogs Panache and Bailey from the porch. Jake is another house down, but sometimes she barks at him to say HI!

Look how pretty Jolie looks out on our deck!

We were thinking about teaching her how to drive.

Here I am with Jolie at Estess Park where we saw the bull elk. This is a golf course in the background with many elk roaming around.

Whatcha doing Jolie?

This is one of my favorites of her in our backyard.

Shawn is teaching her how to dance.

She loves to whip weiner dog and blue around in her mouth! We call her Rodeo Jolie because she likes to buck like a bull!

Here is Jolie passed out after a fun day at Red Rocks. I take her at least once/week sometimes twice! She loves her futon. We were going to get rid of it, but since she likes it, we decided to keep it in her room :)!

Shawn likes to pick up Jolie and swing her around.

Jump Jolie Jump! She really doesn't need any encouragment.

No more shoes please! I took this one today. So, this is the most recent. Her 5 month birthday is Thursday! And Friday she gets spayed. Please pray for a speedy recovery!!

The End! We need to take more pics! She is growing so fast!!!

Rodeo Jolie!

Poor weiner dog

Jolie and Jake

Video of Jolie playing with Benny

Updates on Jolie

I got this one of Jolie today on the stairs! She jumps up each step! This is Jolie meeting the neighbor kids, Ava and Cole, and their dog Benny.

This is Jolie just standing in the yard.

And here is Jolie playing with her new friend Benny!

I meant to post these earlier, but these are Jolie's parents. Max and Dulce. Dulce is on the right.

2 Cute Videos of our Jolie

Jolie after playing with dragon and after tug of war. Tug of War

Poor Dragon

Jolie with her parents in her new home

We picked Jolie up from her Mom's (that would be me) hometown of Houston, TX. She had a rough few days adjusting to her new family, a long car ride to Colorado, and then, she was diagnosed with Anemia due to Hookworms. The good news is that she is 100% better and is almost in the normal ranges under our loving care. She can eat normal amounts of food for her size now that she doesn't throw it up. She is great! and we thank God for the joy she has brought to our lives!

More fun with Jolie!!

Here is Jolie with her Grandpa! And here is Jolie with her cousin Alexander! Alexander knows how to give lots of loving! He really helped Jolie transition to her new family!!

We love you Alexander and Jolie!

Meet Jolie!!!

Meet the newest member to our family!!! This is Jolie. She is 11 weeks old and is a pure bred black lab. Here Mom is a yellow lab and her Dad is a chocolate lab, but she turned out black! We love her!!!

El Diente Peak 14,159'

We started super early for this hike. Our plan was to do El Diente and then traverse to Mount Wilson. Here's a look at the valley. We are camped just on the other side of this lake. We knew this was going to be a rocky one. We took a different route to increase our chances of solid, firm rock.

This is Gladstone peak. These mountains kind of separate Wilson Peak from Mount Wilson and El Diente.

It always looks worse from a distance.

Navigating a few ledges. This is Dave and Charlie. I'm actually watching them from above.

Top of El Diente. I'm in this picture, but not sure which is me.

Here we both are.

Now, it's off to Mount Wilson.

This is Dolores Peak.

Here we are on the traverse. This is the easiest of the 4 classic traverses. It's pretty well marked.

This picture I copied from the route description. This is what we were climbing when the boulder decided to separate from the earth. We were between 13,500' and 14,000'. I would say we were more than half way done.

Well, that's it for hiking this year. Not sure what next year will hold. God Bless, and be sure to count your blessings and Thank God and all his Angels and Saints Everyday!! I always pray to St. Jude too!! He is the Patron Saint of Hopeless cases. Thank you, God and Thank you, Saint Jude!!

Wilson Peak 14,017'

Well, this was the start of a 3 day trip in which we were going to hike 3 mountains. We hiked in on Saturday (about 4 miles), and then, we hiked Wilson Peak on Sunday July 25. This first picture is of El Diente which we will do tomorrow. This hike was fairly simple as hikes go. We have to get up to this ridge on the left and go around the front of this mountain you see to the right.

We pass remnants of an old mine.

Here's looking down the valley we just hiked. You can see the trail and a hiker on his way.

We are on that ridge. Now, it is time to go around the mountain. There is a pretty decent trail with cairns.

Here we come.

Now, we are on the other side of that mountain on the other ridge. Wilson Peak is in the background. Almost there!

This is the mountain we went around. We don't have to climb this.

Views looking the other direction with Mount Wilson (peak on right side) in the background. That's the one we are doing tomorrow, but as you all know, we didn't make it because of the accident.

Here is our friend Dave on the trail.

Wilson Peak. We are just about there. It looks harder than it really is.

A little notch in the mountain we go by.

I'm up above... look for my blue backpack, and Dave is below me.

A view from the top! We are looking at Wetterhorn and Uncompahgre way in the distance.

Back in the valley going back to camp!