Archive for the ‘lizzie’ tag
Denver
By Janie on February 7th, 2011 at 5:03 pm with 2 comments
Early morning at Lizzie’s house.
Golden
By Janie on February 6th, 2011 at 7:18 pm with one comment
Ellie and I are visiting my sister this weekend in Denver. We took a quick trip over to Golden, CO for a walk. It’s been snowing for a few days, so we didn’t want to venture any further up the mountain.
Tagged with denver, ellie, golden, janie, lizzie
Samantha’s Mr. Potato Head Family
By Janie on July 26th, 2010 at 4:06 pm with 3 comments
Aunt Lizzie gave Samantha a Mr. Potato Head family for her birthday last year. She really likes it. Lately, when she’s finished dressing them up, she’ll line them all up and tell me to take a picture. Each one has a name (Mommy, Daddy, Sam and Ellie). We went to the McWane Science Center recently where they had a Mr. Potato Head exhibit. With all the Toy Story 3 stuff, Mr. Potato Head seems everywhere. Here are some of her creations.
(I helped with the Mommy one in the above picture, but all the others she did by herself.)
Tagged with lizzie, mr. potato head, sam
Birthdays
By Janie on March 23rd, 2010 at 3:43 pm without comments
Whenever it is a family member’s birthday, we always try to sing “Happy Birthday” to that person. Samantha has grown to love this song and she sings it a good bit. Over the last 10 days, Aunt Lizzie and Uncle Daniel had birthdays. We’ve been singing “Happy Birthday” a lot.
However, Samantha has not moved past Jackson. His birthday was in January. Whenever she sings the Birthday song, she inserts “Jackson” where appropriate. He still has the hold on her.
Tagged with birthday, daniel, jackson, lizzie, sam
Just for Lizzie
By Brian on January 20th, 2010 at 7:54 pm without comments
Why is the University of Colorado known as CU and not UC or U of C?
The same applies at Kansas-KU, Missouri-MU, Nebraska-NU, Oklahoma-OU and Denver-DU. “Midwestern casualness,” says former CU historian Fred Casotti. It has always been this way at Colorado, for whatever reason, and at the other five listed above-but seemingly nowhere else in the USA. In the 1950s, there was a concerted effort to eliminate the use of “CU” on the Boulder campus, both as a symbol and in speech, but Casotti said that no one would buy into it. “Nobody would change,” he said. “It’s easier to say than U of C, UC sounds like slang or something (as in ‘you see’), and it was traditional. By trying to eliminate it, they reinforced it.”
(from the official athletics website of the University of Colorado)
Similarly, here we say “UA.” “AU” must just be slang.
