Pea, Gigi's Cupcakes Littleton, CO,

GabbyGecko


Posted Nov 19, 2010, 5:39 am
Hi there! Very excited to start my travel log! My ancestors & I have been traveling with my hoo-man for the past 14 years. They have all since retired and it is now my turn to take on the world. I love to travel & get dressed up. I'm sure you will see many of my different outfits in my pictures.

I thought I would start my travel log with my latest adventure - a hike to Devil's Head Fire Lookout in Rampart Range - Colorado. During the summer and high fire danger months, someone stays in this tower all day to watch out for forest fires. They can see 100 miles in every direction! At night, they stay in a cabin at the base of the 137 stairs to the lookout.

The first is a picture of me the trail head. You can't tell - but I am wearing a very rustic red plaid shirt and a pair of jeans. I looked like a true hiker!

It was only a mile-ish to the look out tower - but it was all up hill! Very difficult for me to keep up with my little legs compared to hoo-mans long legs. We stopped several times so she could pretend to be an artistic photographer & get some shots of the scenery. I wasn't invited to be in those. Hmph. We eventually made it to the top...

The other 2 were taken at the top of Devil's Head Fire lookout. Hoo-man kept yelling at her hiking partner because she was afraid he was going to drop me over the edge. I do look a big scared. He had me pinched preeeeetttyyy tight!



GabbyGecko


Posted Nov 20, 2010, 4:48 am
I like cookies. A lot. Luckily, so does hoo-man. She recently found this amazing mom & pop Italian restaurant by her office that makes all sorts of home made sweets. They have an a-m-a-z-i-n-g selection of cookies.

She must have thought that she could sneak them in the house without me noticing. NOT! I sniffed out that greasy, buttery brown bag immediately and located the COOKIES! Below are the pictures of me, Bean, and Sprout taking control of the cookie bag.
GabbyGecko


Posted Nov 21, 2010, 6:49 am
The new Harry Potter movie is out! I have gone and seen everyone one of them as soon as they have come out in theaters. I have also gone and waited at book stores until midnight when the new books were released. (I promise - I was not the only one there! The He hoo-man was quite shocked to see how many people really show up for a midnight book release. ALOT!)

Last year, He hoo-man made me my very on Nimbus 2000 before the release of the 6th Harry Potter movie. I got to hold my Nimbus tightly during the movie. I also zoomed around on it a couple of times - dearly upsetting my hoo-man. She was afraid I would zoom & crash into an unsuspecting person's popcorn.

This year, I extended my Harry Potter collection. I locked hoo-man up in the sewing room and told her not to come out until I had a cape, wand, gryffindor scarf, and hogwarts uniform. There was a bit of drama surrounding the creation of the wand. It was originally fashioned out of a toothpick & left to dry on a paper plate. Someone didnt realize that it was a very valuable unicorn horn Pea-size wand & threw the plate & wand away!!! Hoo-man had to scramble and make me a new one at the last minute. I actually like this second one better because it's slightly bigger (and less pointy). It's made out of a golf tee :)

I got to wear my new duds to the movie! However, hoo-man made me leave my Nimbus in the car. She wasn't going to take the chance of me getting her kicked out.

GabbyGecko


Posted Nov 22, 2010, 6:26 am
I like productive days! Today was one of those because I locked hoo-man in her sewing room for a few hours this afternoon to finish some outfits that were only half done from previous months in addition to starting on some of my holiday wear!

I really do like the outfits that she makes me (except for the Madonna one... That one can stay in the closet... Or be burned. Note to self: I do believe that it is still on Twitpic from two years ago... Go delete.) - It's just so difficult to pin her down & make her sew!

She finished my 2010 new years outfit today. So I guess that's going to become my 2011 new years outfit? She also finished this years fourth of July outfit. She came really really close to finishing it in time this summer for the fireworks, but didn't and it remained on her desk since then. She also finished one of my Thanksgiving outfits for this year! She purchased material to make two more, but I won't hold my breath. Getting one done on time was definitely a monumental achievement for her recently. :) (She knows I'm just giving her a hard time... I hope... We'll see - I may end up sleeping in the bath tub instead of my cozy hammock if I'm not careful.)

I've included a picture of me with my new Thanksgiving outfit along with the pile of material that she purchased the other day for the rest of my holiday clothes! I still have to have a photo shoot for the rest of the outfits.

Going to work early with hoo-man tomorrow to keep her company. Three day work week!

GabbyGecko


Posted Nov 23, 2010, 6:07 am
Back to the grind stone of another Monday at work! I was slightly disturbed when I was plucked from my hammock an entire hour earlier today. Why must hoo-man go to work so early?!? Not only was I woken up early, but I was subjected to sitting in her pocket while she scraped the ice off of her wind shield. I much rather preferred to sit in the nice warm car - or the house for that matter. However, the ice was so thick that the noice of the ice scraper against the windshield was louder than the squeeks I was emitting from her pocket. At least she was nice enough to wear jacket with the silk lined interior today :). Besides the cold of the morning, the pockets were very comfy!

I was also treated with a few sips of a ginger bread latte from Starbucks on the drive in. All in all - the morning could definitely of have started out much worse! The day went by fast & when we got home, Hoo-man started working on more of my Thanksgiving outfits. It's right around the corner! She still has half of this one plus one more to finish before Thursday. Yikes!

She has also been working on creating more friends for me. Below is the picture of 3 new critters she created. It still creeps me out when they are empty - like the ones below. For goodness sake - eat something will you!
GabbyGecko


Posted Nov 24, 2010, 6:22 am
We started our Thanksgiving baking today!Hoo-man went grocery shopping at lunch today with a co-worker & gathered supplies to make 2 cheesecakes with raspberry and molasses drizzle, cranberry jello salad, and roasted red potatoes with rosemary sour cream.

We had to make one of the cheesecakes tonight for her office gathering tomorrow. It was quite fun! I got to run the mixing machine. That's the closest that I will probably ever come to a power tool. He he he! I also checked all the eggs for cracks. Then we poured it all into the pan. (He Hoo-man made the crust while I was working the heavy machinery.)

At that point it was hurry up & wait. All of our other cheesecakes have come out with giant cracks through them. We have googled & googled methods to prevent the cracking - and all say a constant heat source (ie no opening the oven while its cookig) and a water bath for the pan. Still - no matter what we've done, we have always ended up with a cheese cake that looks like it came straight out of  the San Andreas fault line in California! :)

BUT!!! This one came out PERFECT! I think it was my mad mixing skills...  B)
GabbyGecko


Posted Nov 25, 2010, 6:28 am
The cheese cake that I helped bake last night was a huge hit today at hoo-man's office! However, I wasn't very thrilled that she took all the credit for it. I did squeak my protests loudly, only to have hoo-man shove me in the top drawer in her desk while she continued on with the rest of the holiday part. Hmph. I *really* DID help create the cheesecake!

It is very cold here in Colorado here today - definitely the coldest day of Fall so far. It was below 30 degrees F all day. Tonight its in the single digits. When I got home - I was cold!! I decided to try and cuddle up with the Dog Monster aka Chloe. I had to slowly sneak up on her though so she wouldnt notice I was there. She puts out a lot of heat, so she's good to snuggle with. However - she does tend to chew on me. I didn't want any more holes in me!

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After I warmed up, Bean, Sprout and i worked on some Thanksgiving crafts! We created hand...er... claw print turkeys tonight to make a Thanksgiving card to all of our online friends! To make a claw print turkey - you trace your paw/claw and each finger becomes a feather on the turkey. Poor Bean's turkey didn't fit in line with mine & Sprouts so it's kind of off to the side.

Looking forward to watching the Macy's parade tomorrow morning on TV!

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GabbyGecko


Posted Nov 26, 2010, 5:46 am
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

I had a lovely evening tonight with hoo-man, he-hoo-man, and hoo-man's parents. I ate sooooo much!

We started out with our usual Thanksgiving traditions - watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and then the National Dog Show! I was desperately hoping to see some kind of gecko balloon on TV during the parade - but alas - another year down with no gecko in the parade. Maybe if I get really really famous some day I will get my own balloon! I wonder what outfit I would wear...

After that - I helped hoo-man with the rest of the cooking. We had made the cheesecake the other night, but we needed to make the fresh raspberry sauce. I kept taking raspberries out of the bowl & crawling under the microwave to eat them so hoo-man wouldn't see. I got away with eating 4 of them before I was quickly escorted to another portion of the counter to puree cranberries - which I *don't* like.

We also made homemade butterscotch sauce, cranberry & walnut garnish, and hasselback potatoes with rosemary sour cream garnish. While all of that was cooking, hoo-man finished up my last 2 Thanksgiving outfits! I wore one tonight to dinner and will wear the other for Black Friday shopping tomorrow!

This picture is of our dinner table! I met a very nice turkey - Rob. He was a decoration. A bit ... stiff... but very pleasant nonetheless.
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Me & Rob
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Here is me & the real turkey. I got in trouble for this one! They were afraid I was going to leave claw marks on it! he he he
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Here is our meal spread! In additional to what hoo-man made, her mom made turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, squash, cranberry bread, gravy and tons of other goodies!

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Also, her mom (gran-hoo-man?) got me this bottle of Sobe ice tea. It has little geckos on it!

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GabbyGecko


Posted Nov 28, 2010, 4:14 am
Today I got to go and visit my hoo-mans horses! She has two - Ace and Jesse. They are both very nice critters. This afternoon, hoo-man rode Ace and she let me sit on him too!

Ace is an American Quarter horse that specializes in reining. Thats a form of western riding where the horse and rider get judged on their ability to ride through a pattern with certain required maneuvers. Some of those maneuvers are galloping circles, running fast and doing a sliding stop (This is my favorite - the horses back legs slide through the dirt, like when you where socks on hardwood floor) and spinning.

Hoo-man and Ace compete in horse shows in the summer. So right now - they have some time off. Ace has gotten fat and furry in the past couple of months!

Here are some pictures of me sitting on him:

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Here is a picture of me in the horse treat bucket! They get these horse "cookies" after each ride. Hoo-man sneaks some to her boys other times though. He he he
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This is where they keep all the saddles!
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This is a picture of me with Ace's blanket. Horses get to where clothes like me! Ace is very stylish because he gets a pink one.

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GabbyGecko


Posted Nov 29, 2010, 2:06 am
We are officially in Christmas mode around here! Today, I drug my tree up from the basement. For a human, it would have been easy to carry it upstairs. However, i wanted to be rugged - like if it I had cut it down myself in the woods!! I am very strong and was successfully able to drag it up the stairs.

Here is a picture of me & my tree:
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I dont have many ornaments for the tree, so we decided to make our own out of a salt dough. You make the dough, and then cut out shapes like you would with cookies. Then bake.

Here are the pictures of me cutting it the shapes!
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Then I put them on the cookie sheet:
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Then they go in the oven!
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Here they are baked & hard as a rock!
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Tomorrow - we will decorate them!!!

GabbyGecko


Posted Nov 30, 2010, 1:50 am
Today I painted all my ornaments! I had so much fun with all the different colors. I turned the large flowers into snowflakes and the small flowers into ...uh...well, flowers! All the stars got metallic paint on them. The candy canes were so hard! I won't be making those again. When it was all done with covered them in really shiney paint. I cant wait to get these on my tree!!!

Here is me with all of the different paints. I had to wear an old tshirt so i didn't get paint on me. It's a very OLD tshirt. :)
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Here they are all painted!
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Arent they pretty?!?
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GabbyGecko


Posted Dec 1, 2010, 4:43 am
Whew! I thought i would never get home today to update my log! I've been at work with hoo-man for 12 hours today. It was such a long and boring day hanging out in her pencil drawer while she worked. Next time i will request that she leave me with some form of entertainment other than a few lousy paperclips.

When we came home tonight we were able to hang out in the craft room for a bit and work on a cool little box for some of my clothes!
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GabbyGecko


Posted Dec 3, 2010, 3:11 am
Sorry I didnt update yesterday! Hoo-man is planning her company's holiday party and was running around all night getting things together.

Tonight I got to start decorating my tree. The first thing to do is put on the lights. You can see I had problems untangling them...
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I got it all worked out! Here is me with the lights on....
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Then I needed to add the first of the ornaments. The set that I added tonight are pink plastic snowflakes.
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Tomorrow I am hoping to add the ornaments that I created the other night to my tree! I just have to finish adding the strings to them so they can be hanged. After that i can top it with a star and it will be ready for santa!!
GabbyGecko


Posted Dec 4, 2010, 7:04 am
I'm so excited! My very first visitor has arrived today - Dusel from Germany! He came just in time too because tonight was the Denver Parade of Lights. It was the perfect opportunity for him to see some of the town.

Here is us in the parking lot in Denver before we walked to the parade. Parking is so expensive during an event. It cost us $15!! There was this pretty cool church behind the parking lot.

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We got stuck in traffic on the way down to the parade so we didnt get a very good spot for pictures. Hoo-man had to climp up onto some water pipes just to get tall enough to see the floats but the lights were too dark for pictures :(

The town next to ours always has reall cool lights in the park during Christmas and she has wanted to take some pictures for a long time. She already had her camera gear so we had a little mini photo shoot in the park! There was this really cool gazeebo there that we posed in for a little bit. During the summer, bands will set up in here and play music during festivals.

In this one we are really small - on the ground in the gazeebo - but you can really see how cool it looks with all the lights.
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Here is one a little closer.

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Then we posed on the railing next to some holly & red bows. I like this one. It may be my Christmas card.... :)
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Tomorrow - I look forward to showing Dusel around town!
GabbyGecko


Posted Dec 5, 2010, 6:14 am
I had quite the busy day today. I feel a little bad for my visitor from Germany, Dusel because he must be exhausted from jet lag and he had to be subjected to all of our errands that we had to run today.

Hoo-man is working on creating table center pieces for a holiday party, and we had to run around to pick up things for those. We bought a ton of garland! It looked like we had a small forest in the car!

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Then, Dusel got distracted by one of the tractors that was parked in front of the house. We have several, but he thought this one was small enough for him to try out. He he he. He very enthusiastically offered to mow the lawn, but we were promptly plucked off the seat of the tractor as soon as Hoo-man saw us there. She just kept yelling "not safe! not safe!"

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When we came back in, all the geckos in the house gathered around the Christmas tree to give Dusel his official welcome!

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The geckos demanded some time with Dusel so I was able to step away for some time for tea with an old pal, Colorful.  She was Hoo-man's companion through high school and college. When she retired, I replaced her. :) She's always fun to hang around with.

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GabbyGecko


Posted Dec 6, 2010, 6:44 am
Tonight, Dusel & I went to to the Denver Botanic Gardens. During the summer its full of exotic flowering plants and sculptures. During the winter, they hang lights on all the plants and turn it into a lighted park for people to walk around in the evenings. We've been before, and it looks really neat when there is snow on the ground. However - we don't have any! It's very rare for this time of the year. But I still thought the gardens looked really cool without the sow.

Here is a picture of me at the entrance of the garden. The lights shooting up from the ground are water fountains. They shoot up and down and change colors. The snowflakes were hung all along a wall that went down the length of the water garden.

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Here is another part of the garden where they dug holes in teh ground and put lights in them. Then the plants around the holes had lights in them with a giant snowflake in the background.

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This snowflake was gigantic!

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Here are some really cool pictures of me & Dusel on an ice sculpture. They made these with chain saws! It was so cold! I kept slipping off of the statues. Geck claws are made to hold onto ice!

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(It's kind of hard to see me in this one. I'm on top of the snowmans head on the right side.)

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I saw this really cool statue on the way back to the car. It reminded me of scales on a real gecko so I wanted to pose in front of it!

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GabbyGecko


Posted Dec 7, 2010, 5:09 am
I showed Dusel around our local town today. He found it quite fascinating, but I found myself constantly apologizing for how ugly it was. It is just so BROWN this time of year! I love it during the spring and summer - but it's definitly "blech" looking right now.

Here is us in front of the local cowboy hat shop. Yes - you heard me correctly. We have a store dedicated to nothing but making custome cowboy hats!

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We also met this lovely duck at the local law office. He's pretty cool, and I may come back and visit him another time.

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We also visited the Castle Rock in the next town over. Us geckos always thought there was a magical castle on top where we would be turned into princesses. Nope. Quite the let down when we hiked up there one day and found that it really was nothing but ...a rock!

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I also helped my hooman pay her car insurnace. It's no coincidence that she has Geico. I begged and pleaded for her to go to Geico in hopes that I meet Mr. Gecko some day. He is soooo hot!.

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GabbyGecko


Posted Dec 12, 2010, 6:06 am
Whew! Christmas Party 2010 over and done with! I know I am supposed to be Hoo-man's best friend - but she made that very difficult these past couple of days. :) She has been running around like a nut and I have been along for the ride in her coat pocket or on top of her computer the whole time. I better be getting a good gift from Santa this year for what I had to put up with in the past cuple of days. However, it was quite a lovely evening last night at the party. I got to hang out in hoo-man's purse with Dusel while we listed to the events & got the occasional food goodie dropped down to us.

To make up for the chaos, hoo-man took us out to look at the holiday lights on peoples houses tonight. Here are a couple of our favorites:

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Then, as we were driving home I noticed this huge star in the distance. You always hear people talking about the North Star, and I was convinced that what I was seeing was the Real North Star!! That means that if I kept walking in the direction of that star it would bring me to the North Pole where Santa and the elves are!! Right?!?!? Well Hoo-man wasn't very convinced that it was the north star so we went driving to investigate. Unfortunately - she prooved me wrong and it ended up being a fake!!! Someone had a gigantic star attached to the roof their house. This *had* to be a person that was trying to throw people off Santa's trail right? They must be part of Santa's Secret Security ageny - protecting him from the random tourist showing up at his work shop. Well played Mr. Claus. Well played.

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When we got home, we put the rest of my ornaments on the tree to call it officially "finished"!!

Here are Dusel & I enjoying the lights of the tree with all the ornaments.

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Here is me next to one of my finished ornaments on the tree.

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Every tree needs a star! That's how Santa finds our house. Without the star, he wouldnt be able to come and deliver our gifts!

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GabbyGecko


Posted Dec 13, 2010, 7:24 am
Another TV came in the mail today!!!!! Her name is Nathalia and she is from Germany (just like Dusel)!!

Here is everyone getting settled in. Nathalia came with a box full of goodies! We got a very scrumptious looking cake and a rhino friend! We still haven't come up with a good name for him yet though....

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Unpacking Nathalia's box made me remember that I never posted pictures of Dusel's post card and goodie! I was just so excited to get my first TV visitor that I completely forgot! Here is us with the pretty card and the neat medallion! We are going to find a string for it & put it on the Christmas tree..

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I've been telling Dusel all day that he needs to get cleaned up & fluffy for a special person that he is going to meet. He moaned & groaned all day until Nathalie & I were able to corner him. I pulled up a picture of Fabio so I had an idea of what to do with his fur... But I'm not sure if I was completely successful in the transformation....

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GabbyGecko


Posted Dec 15, 2010, 3:58 am
I was very excited to be able to bring a few of my TV friends to one of our Zoos here. It's really cool because you can get really close to the animals. We have 2 zoos in Colorado - one in Denver -and then this one in Colorado Springs. It is about an hour away and we have to drive west to get there. We got to drive towards one of my most favorite views- Pikes Peak. It is one of the tallest mountains in Colorado, and it is over 14,000 feet tall. Here is the three of us in front of the big mountain in the distance.
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Then we had to strop and pick up lunch to bring to the zoo. We went to one of my favorite restaurants. It only serves lunch, and it only serves Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! Here is the three of us fighting over th last bit of sandwich. It was so good - it had ginger peanut butter, jalepeno pear jelly, spinich, sprouts, and bell peppers. Very strange combo but trust me, it worked!
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Here are some pictures of me with all the different critters at the zoo! Some were really scary and some were really nice
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Action shot! The mountian lion exhibit went above the viewing station. This was very scary to have a mountain lion on top of us!
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GabbyGecko


Posted Dec 18, 2010, 10:55 pm
I have a cold. *sniff.* I got left in hoo-man's back pack the other night and it snowed. It was the first real snow with accumulation. I had to crawl through the snow to get back in.

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She's trying to make it up to me by letting me sleep in the big bed. I just hope I'm better by Christmas! When I get a cold I lose my sense of taste, and I'm afraid I wont be able to taste all the good Christmas nummies!

I've been slumming around in my pajamas for the past couple of days, and doing a lot of reading. Right now I am reading Winnie the Pooh.

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I've also been doing a lot of relaxing in bed.

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GabbyGecko


Posted Dec 20, 2010, 4:52 am
We were working on our last minute Christmas cards today, and I got to send out autographed pictures of myself. Im RUDOLF!!!

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GabbyGecko


Posted Dec 25, 2010, 6:58 am
I'm ready for Christmas!!!!!! I was really hoping for a white Christmas, but I dont think that is going to happen. The Weather Gods managed to forget to spread some of the snow our direction down here on the plains. The clouds used up all their snow in the mountains - over 130 inches worth!

I really hope I get something good tomorrow - I have two little gifts under the tree with my name on them, and then I also bought something for my hoo-man.

Here is a picture of me & my friends in front of the Christmas tree! We are waiting for Santa...

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Every year, my hoo-man makes me a new pair of pajama's to sleep in on Christmas Eve. (Also known as Pea-j's... he he he. Bad joke - I know.) This year I got some red flannel ones with snowflakes on them. This is probably the closest I am going to get to snow for a long time...

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Waiting for Santa!!!!!!!!!! While visions of Sugar Plums dance in my head...

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GabbyGecko


Posted Dec 26, 2010, 7:19 am
WOOOOOOOT!! It's Christmas! This is my third Christmas and each one seems to get better. I remember this time last year I was in San Diego visiting family with my hoo-man and it was cold and rainy. He he he. I hear it's still rainy in California! At least here, it's a bit warmer. Although - I still have yet to see a White Christmas. I was really hoping that's what Santa would bring me, but no. :(

He did come and visit us last night though! We all tried really really hard to stay up for him, but we must have fallen asleep. I dont even remember what time THAT was... But when we woke up this morning, our stocking was full! However, we couldn't open gifts until tonight.

Because it was so nice out, we went for a drive in the scary Mustang. It was kind of a Christmas gift to the he-hoo-man because my hoo-man usually won't ride in it. *snicker* I think it scares her! We went to Daniels Park. It is one of my favorite place in Colorado because you can see for miles in every direction! We have seen some really cool sunsets & storms from here.

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Then as we were leaving the park, we smelled something really funky. It was a heard of buffalo! They are by far the strangest animal I have every seen as a small gecko.

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And this is why my hoo-man does NOT like to go for drives in the Mustang. No hooman or Gecko ever needs to go 123 mph in a car!

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After our little outting, we went to hoo-man's parents for Christmas dinner. However, I had to change for the festivities! I was wearing my Christmas tree outfit.
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After a long evening there, we were FINALLY able to go back home and open our gifts!! WEEEEEE!

I tore right into mine....

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The first thing I got was a new set of tail clippies!
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Then on to the second gift...
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A new dress! Hoo-man doesnt make all of my clothes. Sometimes I can fit into a Barbie dress.This one is awesome!

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Then it was time to open our stocking!
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Woooow! Look at our loot!
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We played a couple of games of basketball from our stocking.
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Then we took a team picture and called it a night! Merry Christmas everyone!!!!
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GabbyGecko


Posted Dec 31, 2010, 5:05 am
Tonight, Dusel, Nathalie and I decided to go up to the he-hoo-man's shop to help work on the cars. We thought that 6 additional...uh... paws would be helpful. Well, wait a second. That math isnt write... I have 4 paws/claws. Dusel has 4 paws - so thats 8 paws. And Nathalie has 2 wings. So 8 paws and 2 wings are better than 2 human hands?

Here we are picking out our tools. I really dont know what any of these things do.

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Here we are all inside of the car. Nathalie felt more comfortable holding the light with her wings. Dusel held the wrench and I was actually using the pliers. In the end - I didnt do anything because I didnt know what I was doing!

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We decided to move on from there as we weren't making any progress. Here we are on one of the older cars. It needs ALOT of work!!!

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After that, we went and played with a few more of the power tools. He he he! We found this brush looking thing on the end of the drill and thought that it looked fun. We asked Dusel if he wanted his nails filed or his teeth brushed. He declined. No fun!

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But guess what?!?!?! NO MORE BROWN COLORADO!! We are in the middle of our biggest snow yet this year! We are supposed to get 5-10 inches. That isnt THAT much - but it's definitely more than we've had all year. We offered to plow the drive way - but the hoo-mans declined our generosity. I dont think they trust us with heavy machinery.

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GabbyGecko


Posted Jan 1, 2011, 11:54 pm
Happy New Year!!!

Since we actually have snow, we decided to write our new years greeting in the snow. It was so cold! At one point, it was -12 F!

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I was also lucky enough to get a new dress just for new years! Here is our New Years greeting that we sent out to friends and family.

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And a close up of the dress!
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And the super glittery hat!
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I wish all of my fellow TVs the best in 2011!
GabbyGecko


Posted Jan 5, 2011, 5:30 am
I've been meaning to post these sooner. Here are some pictures of my home! I have been very lucky to have my own cubby/island paradise!

I usually stay in the hammack. The pink two story is for my guests. (Dusel and Nathlie are currently staying.) Then I have drawers for all of my knick-knacks. My walls are adorned with all of the clothes my hoo-man has made for me! It is quite a lovely place to lay and day dream.

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I have clothes for all occasions. I usually get a new batch made for me for every holiday (christmas, halloween, easter etc) and a new set for each season & vacation. I have shorts, over alls, skirts, dresses, PJs and bathing suits. Here are my two favorite gowns! I would sleep in them if  I could!

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GabbyGecko


Posted Feb 2, 2011, 5:29 am
I have had quite the hiatus away from the computer in the past week or two! I'm not sure if my fingers know how to type still!

We had pasta the other night! My favorite - they were in the shapes of bugs - a gecko's favorite food!
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I don't think Dusel & Nathalie were too thrilled though....

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It's been very cold here in Colorado the past couple of days. We didn't get much snow, but all major schools in the state have been closed because they dont want the kiddos outside. This morning it was -18 F (negative). With the wind chill it felt like -46 F (yes - negative again!!).

We decided to see who could last the longest outside. Neither of us last very long. We all went back in at the same time!

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Here I am with the current weather. It's still really cold! I dont think that I can feel the difference between -20 something and -40 something. It's all cold.

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We also have received a new visitor - Diddl Mous! He came with a really cool post card for my collection!

While Diddl-Maus arrived this week, we bid farewell to Dusel who will be continuing on his travels! Good luck Dusel! It was great to meet you! Thank you for not eating me!! :)

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GabbyGecko


Posted Feb 6, 2011, 1:33 am
The weather is still cold and snowy here! Today, we sent put first hosted toy voyager ever off to his next destination. Dusel is heading from one cold place to another - Norway. We will miss him dearly! In order to raise our spirits- we did some day dreaming about some warmer pastimes. One of which is golf. I have visited some really cool golf courses all around the country, but my favorite is always going to be my home town golf course.

I decided to take my toy voyaging friends out to the course today so I can show them around. We werent able to play because of the weather, but we did get to mosey around the club house!

Our drive there was a bit scary!
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Here we are hanging out on one of the member's golf bags. They have so many golf clubs! They are much too big for me to try and swing. I need a Pea sized set...
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People can also buy golf clubs there in case they want a new one, forget one or... Break one....
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Golfers really like baseball caps. A lot.
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During the summer there are a lot of thunderstorms so the people in the club house have to always keep on top of the weather. You can see here that they are tracking the snow storm.
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The people in the club house also watch whats going on on the course through high powered binoculars. There wasn't much to look at today.
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People also get score cards so they can keep track of their strokes. The score card also has information about the course on it like the rules, the par number of strokes (the expected number of strokes to make it around the course), and a picture of what each hole looks like.
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GabbyGecko


Posted Feb 6, 2011, 6:41 pm
Something very exciting happened today! I got a gift from another fellow gecko, Flowers. Flowers came from the same gecko farm that I did & she now lives with a very nice girl a few towns over.

My hoo-man brought me a little silver pouch today & she said it was from them!

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Claws are not very good for opening gifts, so I had to be careful not to shred anything.

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Look! It's a scarf! I really need one in this cold weather! And its my favorite color - GREEEEEEEEN!!!!

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i LOVE it! Thanks guys!

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GabbyGecko


Posted Feb 9, 2011, 5:28 am
So much has been going on the past couple of days!

First - the great American Tradition - the Super Bowl - was two days ago. That is the biggest footbal game of the year. (And the only one we ever watch.) We actually dont watch the game - but we do watch the commercials!

I got to dress in my traditional super bowl dress! Complete with football!

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We have also been working on Valentines Day clothes for myself and a friend of mine! We're almost done. I think my guests had a lot of fun learning how to sew!

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Also... we found out that we are going on vacation!!!! We are going to Lake Havasu City, AZ. It's a very popular boating spot. It is also the location of the original London Bridge. Yes - that's right - the London Bridge is in the United States- and in Arizona no less! We will have to fly. I am very excited because I have never been on a plane in my young gecko life.

Here is where we are going on the map:

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We will have to fly from Colorado to Las Vegas Nevada:

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Then we will drive from Las Vegas Nevada to Lake Havasu City AZ. We will end up driving through 3 states to get there! We start in NV, go into California for a bit and then into Arizona. It is only about a 3 hour drive. Here is our route:

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On the way there - we will have to drive through the Hoover Dam. It dams up the Colorado River to provide hydroelectric power to Las Vegas and surrounding areas. It sites on the border between Arizona and Nevada. It is now home to the world's highest suspension bridge - the Hoover Dam Bypass. And we get to drive over it!! I was there in October of 2009 and it wasn't completed yet. Below is my p icture from 2009 during construction:

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Look at it now! It is SOOO TALL! It is the largest concrete bridge in teh western hemisphere!

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I hope we are strapped in tight to our car!
GabbyGecko


Posted Feb 12, 2011, 6:05 am
Our full crew has finally arrived for the voyage to Arizona next week! We have been waiting patiently for a new TV to arrive in the mail. He is coming to visit us - just special for this very trip!

Everyone say hello to Froggy!
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He was hopping around the house in no time, learning his surroundings. We spent the evening compary different shades of green. I am quite fond of his brighter color & sometimes wish that I was not has hunter green and more of a neon.

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Also, part of my duty as my hoo-man's best friend is to be her travel buddy when she goes on photo shoots. Luckily, to take the picture below, she didn't have to travel any further than our front yard! That's good because we have left the house as early as 3 in the morning some times to go and catch sun rises. I was able to stay in bed while she took this picture a couple of weeks ago. She had one printed to send off to a friend.

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As you can see - it is quite the full house here. I dont think I have ever had so many non-gecko friends stay in my house before! I hope no one snores!
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GabbyGecko


Posted Feb 13, 2011, 4:46 am
My hoo-man wanted to treat the TVs to a lovely Valentine's day treat, so she brought us to a store that sells nothing but cupcakes! It is called Gigi's cupcakes & they cook all sorts of different flavors & their menu changes with the season.

There were like 12 different types of cupcakes to choose from. We were going to get our picture taken in the store, but we were kicked out for drooling on the glass before we could get one.

We got home & patiently awaited until after dinner when we could open the box.

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Look at all their different flavors! This was their "Winter" menu. We drooled all over this piece of paper.

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Finally it was time to open!

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We each got to pick one cupcake. They were bigger than us!

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I got a "Kentucky Bourbon" cupcake. It had walnuts and chocolate chips in the cake. It had a cream cheese frosting with caramel and chocolate drizzle. YUMMMM!!!!

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