More Snow.

Well, it decided to snow today. I'm not really very welcoming of snow at the end of April. December, yes, YES! But end of April? I think not. The kids on the other hand- THRILLED. So they played and played in it on the balcony so I wouldn't have to go out with them at 7:30 in the morning!!

My Grown-Up Bunny

So, a few months ago, I asked the kids what they want to be when they grow up... Sam said, "A fireman, or drive an ambulance so I can help people." Sierra then said, "I want to be a bunny when I grow up so I can have lots of bunny babies!!! Cause I LOVE Bunnies!!!!!" We all laughed and laughed about it...

Well now, with the help of a $1 set of bunny ears from Target... my little girl has arrived.

It's Time.

I think it's time to start posting again.

January was rather uneventful.. well, actually not entirely. We moved from our townhouse to a little condo that we love! :-) I haven't taken a lot of pictures of it yet.. but here's the fireplace in the living room!



Probably my favorite thing! I've missed a fireplace for the past 2 years, so even though it's gas- I still love it! And the kids do too. And J too!

The other thing we love...



is the view! From INSIDE the living room! We've never had a view from inside before, we've always had to go out or around a building or something- but this, is fantastic! It's so refreshing early in the morning when I still want to be asleep. And the earlier I get up, generally the more beautiful it is! And the evening sunsets, are amazing! God is so good!

After we moved in, we all got sick! And seem to just be getting over it. It hasn't been terribly severe though which we are very thankful for!

We have been doing a study at church called "Balanced", it's a financial study by Andy Stanley, and it is fantastic! The messages are online at redrockchurch.org and they are so worth checking out!

Well, this is all mundane, but it's our life at the moment! More posts and photos to come as I hope to do this and use this more and more!

A new project!!!

Hi All,

This is J writing this time! As you can see from the above photo, we picked up a new boat last night. Some may look at it and say "new?", well it is new to us! Most would take one look at this boat and then proceed to load it up and take it to the dump! I look at this boat and see all the history that is behind this simple vessel, and the life that is yet to be lived by it!! To the best of my knowledge it started it's life as a guide boat at a local fly shop in CO. Later in it's life it was severely neglected and left to rot outside. Someone eventually saw some potential in it and took it on as a project. Well, that person lost interest and the little guy changed hands once more. Then as in most boat cases, the idea of having or restoring a boat sounds bliss but in the end it usually becomes more work than most are willing to put forth or other priorities take over. Therefore, the boat is off to another home. This time it landed in my gear strown and crowded garage. Hopefully to begin a new life as a guide boat and river trip boat for our family!

One might be inclined to ask, " how did you end up with such a nice little boat?" Well I'm glad you asked, because I was gonna tell ya anyways! The mighty power of the Craigslist pages brought this little guy to my attention. Then a few frantic phone calls later and one case of Fat Tire and the boat was ours!! We brought it home and I threw some ribs and corn on the grill and just sat in the boat, pondering it's future. I can clearly see the day it will see the water again. Well, pretty clearly...I havn't decided what color to paint it yet!

I hope to keep writing about the restoration of the new rig. In my other ventures I have failed to chronicle the events that lead up to a finished boat. This time maybe I'll remember to take more pictures and write more down. Who knows maybe someone will find it interesting!!

Later,

Jamie

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!!!!