Saturday, October 27, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Cleaned the Shed!!!
It was a beautiful weekend so I decided to move the storage bins in the shed to the new shed and turn the old shed into a good place for feed and yard supplies. I could not walk from the front to the back of the shed before.
As we also had two little kitties dropped off so they now have a safe place to live until they grow (I'm not sure why Wyatt looks like he has a huge noggin in these pics, but they were too precious to leave out! I especially like where he and the black kitty are touching noses!).
I'm feeling motivated!
Any ideas for kitty names?
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Pumpkin-riffic!
Drove up to Canon City Sunday with my friend and her two boys to hit up Diane's Pumpkin Patch for a day of fun! We picked pumpkins, went down a giant slide onto a straw covered mattress, played in a giant bin of kernel corn, got lost in the 8 acre corn maze, rode the hay wagon, picked pumpkins, pet animals....it was exhausting...for the moms who had to chase the little buggers down! We also hauled home giant pumpkins as well as the ones the kids got to pick in the field.
I'm still tired thinking about it all!
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
Last weekend we headed down to Albuquerque to stay with a friend for the International Balloon Festival. This is a crazy week as people come from ALL OVER THE WORLD to show their balloons, see balloons and compete is a cross-country balloon race. The park opens each day at 4 am and doesn't close until after dark.
On Saturday we woke early and went to the Park and Ride at 5:40 to catch a bus to watch the mass ascension of the balloons. After waiting in line until almost 7:00, the ascension was canceled due to high, high winds. So even though it was calm on the ground it was windy "up there". We headed back to my friend's house to take a nap after breakfast and then headed out to the Aquarium and Botanical gardens. Wyatt thought the rays were 'waving' to him as they swam by so he had to re-visit every tank window to wave back to all of them!
Afterwards we headed to the Balloon Park to shop and watch the evening Balloon Glow and Firework show. Then we headed to the movie theatre for Wyatt to see his first big screen show: NEMO IN 3D !!! He sat through the whole thing and LOVED it!
Sunday we woke at 4am and was to the Park and Ride by 4:50. We were on a bus by 5:00 and at the park soon after to watch the Dawn Patrol (a dozen or so balloons that head up in the pre-dawn to check the safety of the weather for the rest of the balloon). Since it was deemed safe, by 7:00 the balloons began lifting off. There were wave after wave of hundreds and hundreds of balloons rising into the morning sky until almost 11:00. We parked ourselves next to a group of Midwestern balloon owners and chatted a bit with them as they set up their balloons. It was cool to be right amongst the balloons as they filled and lifted off. Wyatt had to wave to everyone!
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Monday, October 01, 2012
My Child: The Daredevil
I swear this kid is always marking himself up in some way. It doesn't seem to inhibit his days in any way...just makes his parents have brief coronaries on a regular basis.
Exhibit 1: Hair cut and watermelon seed spitting contest. Notice the angry red cut down his right cheek. Didn't slow him down any but he still has a nice scar that is slowly fading away. Not sure how this happened, but it involved the deck.
Exhibit 2: I get a phone call last week from the babysitter. I need to some over and make a decision because Wyatt hit his head. Great. Evidently he was running to jump on the couch and tripped, flying headlong in to the bottom six inches of the couch and bruising his entire forehead. We thought concussion for sure, but nope, he came back to school with me and taught my class during my lecture as well as teaching my neighbor how to count.
Notice the bruising peaking from under his bangs. Stinkin' kid!
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