4th of July Weekend

 

 

 

Photos From Iowa & Wisconsin

 

June 16 Update

Sorry its been so long since I posted anything.  We have been busy with summer here.  Noah got out of school on June 3rd and took the following week to relax and catch up on video games.  There were a couple of days when he didn’t leave the house and just bounced from bed to couch back to bed again.  Last Wednesday he had golf lessons at the Keystone Ranch Golf Course and Thursday he went back out to the driving range with his buddy, Parker.

On Friday night Noah and Al went down to spend the night with Al’s folks.  I stayed home fighting off a cold and to take care of the dogs.  On Saturday morning Noah had to be in Ft. Collins at 8:15 to take the SSAT – which is an aptitude test required by some private schools for admissions.  We have applied Noah to Colorado Academy in Denver for fall enrollment, and while we are not overly optimistic, we are hopeful he will get accepted.  Colorado Academy is a private school with K-12 grades, with 800 students total.  They have a waiting list each year for enrollment, but have openings for next year of 1 or 2 spots.  That’s why we are not too optimistic.  We should find out in a week or so if he was accepted.

Noah stayed down with Al and Rosalie for a couple of days, and I will go a pick him up tomorrow.  Then on Saturday Noah, Ozzy and I are driving to Iowa to spend a week in Anamosa.  Noah will attend a Hockey Camp in Cedar Rapids from 1pm to 4pm Monday through Friday.

My flowers are SLOWLY starting to come in.  Its been a strange spring/summer with lots of rain and not much sunshine.  Temps have been in the low 30s in the overnight hours, with day time temps reaching the 50s to low 60s.  Here are a couple of pictures… Not much to show yet, but my wild irises are about to bloom and of course the pansies are blooming.  We have not planted flower boxes yet, as we are waiting until after the house gets painted next week.

 

Fly Fishing

The boys and I went fly fishing this afternoon outside of Breckenridge.  There is a collection of beaver ponds way back on forest service roads.  It was a good day, I caught 27 fish, but the boys only had 1 or 2 each.  Now to be fair, the 27 I caught were all little guys.  Thats the nature of beaver ponds, they dont get very big. In fact, this is the biggest one of the day…

 

Famliy Hug

This is my Favorite picture from this weekend- Matt, Michele and Emelia

 

Hummingbirds

 

Smoked Prime Rib- Yummy!

 

For Sale

Well we are officially “For Sale” aka “On the Market”.  After a couple of months of purging and packing our house is for sale.  If you didnt already know- we have been talking about moving to Denver for a couple of years now, but with Noah moving to middle school next year, it just seems like the right time to do it.  Maybe not the best time to sell a house, but its a great time to get a deal on one. 

We have been looking in Denver for a couple of weeks and actually found a house and put an offer in tonight… of course we have to sell our current house in order to be able to move- so everyone please keep your fingers crossed for us!  

It was wonderful two weekends ago to be in Denver and see all the tulips and daffadils in bloom… I was looking back at pictures from last year and we actually had a good snow storm on May 17th!  I sure hope that does not happen this year.  Our snow is slowly melting and I am gradually de-pooping the yard and raking.  The gras under the snow is very green so thats nice to see.  I found a dandelion in the rocks on the south side of our house in the exact same spot as last year already in bloom… and I have a few columbines starting to sprout.  Cant wait for spring.  Cant wait to experience spring in Denver.

Pray for a quick sale

 

Ozzy’s Face Full of Snow

 

Backyard Visitor

I went outside this morning aroudn 7am to get the dogs and they were doing a stare down with a pair of foxes.