Happy Birthday Hazie!

Spring Time in the Rockies!

Our Lilacs have gone crazy this year. Thanks to good timing and not as many spring snow storms our yard smells wonderful in the evening and now the inside of our home!

Lessons learned while trying to earn a green thumb.

As we have posted before one of our goals is to have green thumbs like our parents, hence all the flower photos in our posts. My mom, an orchidist, my dad, who could grow absolutely anything in any condition, Ryan's mom who can make anything grow in the cold Steamboat winter's and have the most prolific summer garden even in the threat of a summer snow storm. So with these genes behind us we have set out to grow tropical in Colorado and a garden patch in the clayey soil of the state. We have had our accomplishments and learning opportunities (these are a plenty!). Tonight though I did the unthinkable and accidentally cut a spike off of an orchid we have been nursing back to health. The potential to bloom, gone. I am so bummed and mad at myself. Here's to learning, look carefully before you cut back old growth, you never know what will surprise you when it comes to orchids. For months it looks like they aren't doing anything and next it's on it's way to blooming.

Two random posts in one....

We were up in Steamboat for Christmas and enjoyed spending time with Meg and Erin. We had the chance to enjoy the aerial competition for Olympic Trials on Christmas Eve, a couple days of downhill skiing and some nordic skiing.

We have a goal of earning green thumbs, since all of our parent's have quite the green thumbs. We have been raising orchids in the house and have had minimal success in getting them to bloom and great success in growing lot's of green. But in the recent months our luck has changed, and we have had four plants go into spike, including one Nancy said we may never get to bloom in Colorado, because we are just too dry, the dendrobium (the flowers used in lei's)

Enjoy!