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| ...a bit of painting |
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| ...violin lessons |
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| ....practice time at home |
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| ...picking the last of the garden veggies |
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| .......learning how to use power tools at a young age |
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| ....enjoying the cooler weather for bike rides |
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| ...."helping" Sampa build shelves |
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| .......lots of baking |
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| ......chasing hens (not ours unfortunately) |
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| "Hey, I found an egg!" |
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| ...entertaining Sampa at Dinsoaur Journey |
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| ....thinking a lot |
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| .....doing hard math like Daddy |
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| ...enjoying the fall colors with Little Miss Mae |
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| Maroon Bells, near Aspen, CO: Oct. 2, 2011 |
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| I'm pretty convinced we had a picnic in the most beautiful place that anyone in the world could have been picnicing at yesterday. |
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| I've been here probably more than a dozen times, but Maroon Bells never loses it's "awe" for me. Beautiful anytime of year, but simply spectacular in the fall. |
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| Loving the leaves! |
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| Same place....one year ago. |
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| This is the view almost opposite of the Bells....just as stunning, in my opinion! |
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| And here's that baby bump shot, for those of you wondering how the little one is coming along. Happy Fall! |
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| We just LOVE living this close to Palisade! We've been peach picking at Bracken Orchard a couple of times this season. So fun, and yummy! This picture of K-Rae was taken there and was in the newspaper a couple of weeks ago. If you come visit us this time of year, we'll most likely take you peach picking too! |
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| Grandpa, Creamie and Little Miss Mae |
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| Great-Grandma |
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| Auntie Kara |
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| One of the highlights of summer was having a life size animated T-Rex right in our own hometown. After they got over being scared of him, the girls loved him. Little Miss Mae even named him "Grounder." |
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| "Its name is Grounder." |
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| K-Rae really wanted to try to be scared! |
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| 5 kids at the museum: ages 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7; plus pregnant mama....yeah, we know what those looks people gave us were about! It made a great outing anyhow! |
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| Little Miss Mae's first day of first grade went super! |
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| And K-Rae was so excited for her first day of preschool! She didn't even need Mom to stay awhile (sniff, sniff), and wasn't ready to leave when Dad picked her up! And they were both exhausted tonight and fell right asleep! |
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| Our giant sunflower finally bloomed. |
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| The zucchini plants are taking over the place; we're anxiously awaiting the tomatoes turning red, and we gave up on the third garden, tilled it up and will try some cold weather crops here in a couple of months. |
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| Our new endeavor...composting, or keeping K-Rae out of the composter, we'll see which! |
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| And taking time to smell, or at least photograph the roses.... |
