We’ve been having so much fun that it’s hard to believe our week with Mimi is almost over. We’ve gone swimming at the pool, sunned on the porch, introduced her to the goats, walked our dirt road, cracked ourselves up at the Buffalo Bill Museum, sat under the Flatirons, made raspberry-banana-cashew ice cream, and talked […]
Happy first of June! The kids finished school Thursday…yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! Zia set a goal to learn to ride a bike this summer–the poor thing doesn’t have much ground at home other than cliff faces, so she hasn’t ever really tried. Thursday after she got home I took her to a paved basketball court down the road, […]
Yesterday at 8 AM we packed the kids in the car, picked up Caleb’s friend Lauryn, and headed to Commerce City for a parade. Denver’s parade was canceled due to our crazy, rainy weather lately. The weather was amazing all morning, and the parade lasted two hours. The Air Force Honor Guard. When Ronald McDonald […]
We have a beautiful little woods just above our house, and we’ve been working up there for the past couple of days. It is north-facing, so it’s more of a lush forest than a crackly dry one. Our trees are mostly young aspens and young-to-middle-aged ponderosa pines. Bright green moss and delicate lichen cover rocks, […]
