The Kiddos

So far in my little bloggy, I haven't really put a good post about our kids- they went to feed ducks last week with our friends- they had a grand time- and us moms' got to relax and catch up a bit as well! :-)





Oh, and the kids were really excited about their new Carhartt's, they outgrew the old so in with the new, and they even got hats this year. :-)

The road less travelled

So we did some driving this weekend- we are quite at home on the road headed to anywhere so this wasn't any new occurance for our agenda. We headed out of Colorado Springs via a dirt road leaving Garden of the Gods, then we headed into the fog towards Deckers, CO. The fog, turned into hail, and then into snow!



Leaving Deckers, we travelled through a HUGE vast area of burned forest from a fire back in 2002.






(Only YOU can prevent forest fires!!)



We went a little further to find a good place for the kiddos to run around and explore..



Continuing on, we ran across this little incident!!



Within a couple of hours we had these guys out and us through to the other side as well. We later got to see lots of wildlife and explored many more forest roads in the area, which led us to one conclusion:


"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost

Should in the forest roads in Pike, Teller, and Park counties' case, better be stated:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that... has led me back to where I started.

Then again, two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I then took the one more traveled by,
And that... led me to a dead end.

Hahaha! Happy exploring! :-)

A little catching up...

So apparently I'm not very good at this blogging thing... but here's a little catch up.

As I mentioned in my previous post, the Land Rover ("Lander") needed $4000 worth of work to get it running.. we decited to dive in and do the work ourself. We removed the exhaust system, both drive shafts, and transfer case, transmission, and anything else in the way to get to and change out the damaged fly-wheel! Then we took the whole top of the engine off and apart to change the head gaskets and have the heads cleaned and machined! Finally after it all and after changing out every seal and gasket along the way- it's been back up and running again better than ever since around the end of march! Wahooooo!!!!