WHAT UP?

I love summer.

The weather in the mountains is perfect.

"Family" photo June 26, 2011

BBQ Fest Volunteers June 18, 2011

Reckless Kelly Concert  June 26

Picnic on Lake Dillon, July 1, 2011

Frisco 4th of July parade.  Snow is better than candy on a hot day.

 

Let's look back to April, shall we?

I am so happy and warm right now. 

It is too nice to sit inside and blog. 

THE END.

Passport to Winter

has it really been a whole week?

I have had a crazy busy week with work and holiday stuff. 

Anywayzzzzz, last week I decided to clean out the junk drawer in my closet room.

(btw I don't know why this post is centered but I am going with it.)

I thought I would share a recently recovered/discovered junk item from my clean out in my next few posts.

First up:

I found our passport photos from a few years ago. Apparently they mail the pictures back to you along with your passport.

I really like my hair that long. I chopped it off last December but I am growing it out again. When I am really old I plan on having waist length hair and wearing it in a big ol bun right on the top of my head. My great-grandmother Janie Moore wore her hair like that. She rocked it. I need to find a picture of her hair. Great grannies these days all seem to have short hair. Not my style.

I also found Chase's passport pic.  Chase is also known as El Rey. That means "the King" in Espanol.  That is what you call a kid who is an only child (but not to their face). His other Spanish nickname is cacahaute (said CA ca watt A) which means "peanut"-- because he is my little baby.

Just realized that he is exactly half my age. I am 42 and he is 21 so not exactly a baby. PS: I will spare you Matt's mugshot passport photo.

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In other news, holy crap! We have a TON of snow. Here is the BREAKING NEWS of the day. Chase went snowshoeing with me this morning. He never wants to go with me.  Matt had to work today so I was glad to have someone along to experience the beauty with me. YAY Chase!

In addition to two of our dogs, we took my brother's malamute Bear.

"hey chase, get out of my way"

 

"come on mom. hurry it up."

It was so peaceful. Can you believe this is right out my door?  Feeling lucky today.  Ask me again in May (when it will still be snowing). I am sure my tune will change by then : )

 I don't think Chase was hating plowing the driveway. What do you think?

PS: Is anyone watching the Dew Tour right now?  It is in my town. Turn it on and you can see how much snow we are getting.

Cheerio!

Sunday round these parts

Another weekend is winding down. I have a mofo of a stomach ache. When was the last time you had one of those? Too many tamales yesterday? I don't know? Masa gut sounds possible to me.

Matt and the big dogs went for a cross country ski this morning. Murphy was POed about that. His favorite thing in the whole entire world (besides getting belly kisses from his mama) is going on a walk. But unfortunately, his precious little dog self was bred to live south of the border not on tundra lane. Poor baby!

"ya'll suck"

(he is a Texas native. the other dogs say "you guys")

When they got back Murphy barked at Pistol and chased him around the house just to let him know that it wasn't fair. I did not chase Matt. But I did bark at him ; )

That is all.

Sign Sign everywhere a sign. (Blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind ..).

SATURDAY:

We took the dogs on the Salt Lick Trail in Eagle's Nest Wilderness area.

Georgous.

Do you remember those movies from the 70's where that family gets fed up with city life and moves to the middle of nowhere to get away from The Man and all his trappings?

Yeah,  I loved those movies and fantasized about living such a life.

I am making my dream a reality right?

HAHAHAHA!!

In reality, The Man won't let you enjoy the freakin wildnerness!!!

Here are some signs from our little outing.

The Man is even trying to keep the wildlife down.

LOL!  Keep it calm Mr. Moose. You best behave in the national wilderness. Who do you think you are?? Don''t you know about 36 CFR 261? Don't make me call The Man.

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SUNDAY:

Fall rituals are in full swing:

Out come the pumpkins:

Semi-Homemade Green Chili.

(Too lazy to roast the chilis this year so I cheated with these guys from the freezer section)

Semi-round tortillas.

It is all bueno. 

(Chase and I made the chili-- guess who cleaned up?)

Double dipping (on sports watching).

GO ROCKIES!!!

GO BRONCOS!!!



Did you notice the bear? 
Matt shot that bear when he was 13.   The first week after we were married and we got moved into our house, Matt's parents loaded that bear up and brought it straight over.
(I guess they were tired of that guy in their basement for 25 years).

I think he is cute.  
(And don't you know he will be sporting a Santa hat here in a couple of months).   

Hope you are having a great fall weekend. 

Summer is Slipping Away

Summer is winding down here in Summit County. Today is the first day of school already (not that I have school age kids).  We got a lot of play packed into this past weekend and tried to enjoy what we have left of the season.

We started out the weekend by going out to dinner for our anniversary Friday night --- even  though there was a band playing and people were getting down, after we ate, we promptly came back home, put on sweats and watched TV. Yes, we are super exciting! Try not to be too jealous.

Saturday, we took one of our favorite trails down to the lake. Except, most of the trail is now a road. A forest service road for logging.

Our area has been hit hard by a pine beetle infestation. The beetles are actually killing trees all across North America. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of dead trees.  We have lost 40 in our yard in the last three years.

This handsome fellow does not mind the dead trees, he knows he is almost at the lake.

Murph will not actually get in the lake as the waves scare him. 

This is more his speed : )  That is okay by me as the water is so dang cold that hypothermia sets in at 3 minutes.  No bodies are even allowed in the water anyway.

Isn't Callie adorable? She is 13. 

No, really she is.

These two are quite possibly the most spoiled dogs ever.

Later that evening, we went to a concert and  had a picnic at the lake. It got downright chilly when the sun went down.

Since this blog post is turning into a weekend recap, I have to mention that earlier that morning I went to two garage sales and had some decent luck.

I got this cute runner and matching place mats for $2. They were brand new.

Cute, no?

I also bought this little chest for $5. I forgot to take a "before" picture, but Matt took this one of me sanding on Sunday morning.

It is real wood, but it is old and was beat to hell. I must have sanded for a solid 2 hours. Oh, and yes,  I usually look this glamorous around the house. I can't help it. Don't hate me.

Here is an after shot (of the dresser, not of me).

I think it turned out pretty cute.

One last weekend highlight:  My sister in law, who I will just call "Mo" invited me to go with her to a bike race in Palisades,  Colorado called the "Tour de Vinyard" on September 18. Did you  know we have some awesome vineyards in the western part of Colorado?  Well,  we do, and you know if something has the word "vineyard" in it, I am on board. Sign me up! The race is 25 miles long. Mo convinces me that we should do an 18 mile ride to Frisco and back to "train."

This is Mo at about mile 6.

Of course we had to train for the wine drinking part as well, so we made a little diversion to the Tiki Bar.

Mo is a translator for the school district, so today it is back to work for her.

Bye-Bye Summer.

We will miss you.