WONDERFUL TIME IN COLORADO

We left last Sunday morning after church for Colorado Springs to visit Daryl & Vicki Anderson. Daryl was Rog's roommate in college. After spending the night in Colorado Springs, we headed to the cabin where we planned to spend the week. We saw hundreds of antelope along the road as we traveled and I have 2 of them pictured racing us down the road.

Rog was planning to do some writing to take along when he goes to Ecuador and Mary had a Bible study to prepare and we were able to accomplish all of that and still had some time to hike, drive, and enjoy the beauty of the mountains and the Spanish Peaks.

The cabin we stayed in belongs to a family in our church and is located in between the Spanish Peaks. We were able to hike to the meadow one day and carve the year 06 on our tree(started that 26 years ago and have only missed 1 or 2 years since). Ten years ago, Grandpa & Grandma Tucker hiked to the meadow with us and put their date on a tree. We also had lunch sitting on a rock by the stream. We have some pictures of the beautiful mountains(several which were snow-capped) and the awesome fall colors of the aspen trees in the meadow.
We always love the beauty of the mountains but we have never been there in the fall with all the gorgeous colors of the aspens and the red, yellow, orange and green on the mountain side.

We went into the small town of LaVeta a couple of times while we were there and the cows get in the road and the deer graze in the church yard and some of the resident's yards. They are very tame so I was able to get way too many pictures.

We look forward to taking the grandkids out there someday and showing them around. We had a wonderful time!

A FUN-FILLED WEEKEND

Friday night our company started arriving. John Seaba and his 3 children arrived at our home (Elisa had to work so was unable to come). They came to see the state fair that is in town and we had a fun time with Trey, Avery, and Ethan and they had a fun time with their cousins.

Then on Saturday, Damon & June arrrived with their 5 children. They are here for the fair and just some away time as a family. They enjoyed an indoor water park on Saturday and later that day we had a birthday party for Meryn who turned 3 years old on Friday. Today was church and then some of us went to visit Grandpa & Grandma Tucker. Liz, myself, June, Maggie, and Molly spent some time with my folks and also stopped to say hi to my Uncle H. We arrived back home just in time to leave for our evening church service. Tomorrow Damon & June are planning to take their 3 oldest ones to the fair while Gramma has fun with the 2 youngest ones. They will return home on Tuesday and we will have our empty quiet nest again.

We have a great time together when our kids come home and look forward to the next time when they leave.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MERYN - - 3 YRS. OLD

We started off our day by taking Meryn out for breakfast. She enjoyed being spoiled on her birthday but the main reason we had that opportunity to do that is because her Mommy is sick and Daddy is working so we wanted to help make her day special.

Then we went to the Jarrott's home and gave her a ride in their golf cart. We hoped we would see a deer but not this time. Meryn would say, "here deer", "come deer", but not today. We had a fun day and so did Meryn.

HELPING LIZ

We went to Liz's house to clean up branches and trees that have started to grow in her flower beds and into her fence-line. Rog started this job the other day and needed to finish it. While we were there, Greg & Meryn stopped by and helped with the cleanup. Then we loaded up all the branches and hauled them out to Jack's burn pile. When we arrived there and started unloading the brush, some cows approached the truck (at which time I got back into the truck) and started helping Rog by eating some of the green leaves and tugging on the branches. Though I grew up on a farm, I don't enjoy being around the animals so Rog and the cattle had to finish the job.

TIME WITH MOM & DAD

We went to Salina today which is our usual Monday schedule. But today was special because Liz was able to go and Phil & Julie and their children came to visit Grandpa & Grandma Tucker as well. We spent the time visiting and taking pictures (which Julie has and will share on her blog) and then decided to have lunch together in a dining area in the basement of the manor. Dad was able to come down there with us and we all enjoyed pizza together. It's always a special time when other members of our family stop by on our Monday together.