October 10 on the 10th

The idea is to take ten photos on the tenth of the month and share it, documenting a day of your life and the ordinary moments. There is beauty in the ordinary.

I will post this and then do a little back tracking again. This tenth of the month is one that will be remembered for a long time!


It started out early, but we have pretty sunrises in the mornings sometimes. I love being able to see that from the house!


poor max has to get up earlier than Zoey now. Sleepy mornings...



Ross was actually home this Thursday. He had taken the day off to work on Air Force school-y type stuff. This ended up being huge for later on...


I had to head to the eye doctor. I was just getting an exam, that I don't get very often, so I was not prepared for the whole eye dilation thing and not being able to see up close for a while!! I couldn't even tell if the next few pictures were in focus... so my ten on the tenth documenting sort of went down hill at this point!!



Pretty leaves, but I still couldn't tell what I was focusing on!


Okay... so the night before I was checking out the website for the Boulder Humane Society. We had been checking rescue sights constantly in hopes of finding a dog. The Boulder Humane Society is the NICEST dog shelter I have ever ever seen. The amount of dogs that go through there is amazing. And when a cutey comes along, you have to be quick. So, we found this little puppy on-line at 9 pm. We researched his breed a little and decided we should try and meet him the next day. You have to call and put a hold on the puppy if you want first dibs. I was in the middle of the eye appointment, which is why it was good that Ross was home to make the call.... And even though he called right when they opened, someone was actually there to see him! Yikes. We thought we missed our chance. But it was meant to be and we got the next hold on him. We were going to wait for the kids to come home to check him out but decided we better do it, because once the kids saw him, we probably couldn't walk away if we needed to!

Ross and I met him and I tried to take pictures, but I still couldn't see. Anyway, we adopted the pup and had lunch and then went to pick up the kids and surprise them!!

Here is Max meeting Leo for the first time!


Big smiles, waiting to be in on the surprise for Zoey.


Max and Ross and Leo, hid behind a tree while I went to get Zoey. I told her we didn't get the dog because someone beat us to it. She was about to go hunt someone down! And then she turned the corner... to see the cutest puppy waiting to meet her!



She was pretty excited!


and this was happening as a train went by, which is random...


So, a fun, and memorable 10th for sure. Needless to say, Ross didn't get much done on his paper that day!

Welcome our Leo!

Uncle Ross and Cousins

Ross' sister, Bree, came to Denver for a visit over Labor Day weekend. We were able to visit with them one evening while they were here.

Little Dexter, we met him for the first time!



Uncle Ross quickly introduced him to all things yummy and out of reach... chips, cookies, the good stuff:)




I can just hear Ross saying, "don't worry buddy, I'll hook you up!"



The girls (Kolbi and Zoey) went right outside to play some soccer...


And do piggy back rides:





Can I play too? I have a ball!








Max was there too, but he had a new toy and the lighting was bad, so no good pics!

President's Cup Winner!

Here is a link to an article about Zoey's soccer team winning a state tournament. Both sets of grandparents saw the game AND it was on her birthday!! Very cool!






the link is not working, so you can cut and paste this into your browser!

http://www.broomfieldenterprise.com/broomfield-sports/ci_24315958/two-blast-soccer-teams-win-presidents-cup

Funny Max-man!

some funny stuff, from Max...

As long as we can remember (before being 1 year old, even) Max has loved slapstick humor. And he has always thought these signs were funny... So we finally got a picture of him demonstrating it...




Caution people.

- Max and I went to the grocery store and at the front they have a sign saying they won't sell Tobacco to people under 18. But the sign basically says, NO TOBACCO and then an 18 on it. Max, misread the sign, and knowing that I love all types of hot sauce, said, "What? No Tabasco here?"

- After living through a crazy night during the flood and then talking about it at school, Max considered himself a survivor of a natural disaster. A couple weeks later, we were walking home from school when a crazy dust storm out of nowhere appeared! We had to walk home holding hands, backwards with our eyes closed. When we got into the house safely, Max matter-of-factly states, "Well, survived another thing- A Dust Storm!"

That kids cracks us up every single day.

Nature Pretties

Some pretty nature shots while out and about...

This was just sitting in the car waiting for Zoey to go to school after dropping off Max one morning.






A lake close to our house with a nice trail to walk around.

First Day of School!!

While still in our apartment in Boulder, the kids had to start school in the town we would be living in. So, we had to commute a tiny bit for about 3 weeks.

Max started 3rd Grade!! Here he is on the first day:



He has a super nice teacher, but the school is definitely not used to transient kids, so being new is a little hard!

Zoey started on this day too, but it was a fun, get to know the school day for sixth graders, so she was just in athletic clothes and no back pack...

Here she is the next day, her first official day of MIDDLE SCHOOL! yikes.



Changing classes, and lockers, oh my! It was so hard for me to drop her off that day, knowing she didn't know anyone and that most people would already have friends, but she is a tough girl, and is doing well.

Max on his second day with his Angry Birds backpack and Minion shirt... It all gives him smiles throughout the day!





And a together shot. They can be so sweet to each other sometimes!!


And the four of us walking into Max's school one morning:

OH, hello, blog....

Looks like I am back to playing catch up again!!

Here are just a couple of random pictures from my iPhone that I wanted to capture...

Max at his first soccer game this season. Every other one has been freezing!! So, I hope to get my camera out one night, but we'll see. Forecast for the next game is rainy/snowy too! And yes, that would be a turf football field Max is on, but whatever, they just put cones and goals up and play soccer. It is under lights which is kind of cool.


And another one of Max climbing in a tree.



His hands got full of sap, though, which sort of ruined the experience for him. Not sure if he'll do that again.

And this next one really makes me smile... Makes loves the Minions from the Despicable Me movies. One assignment he had was to color a picture for his binder at school. Ross did a drawing and Max colored it in. I love all of it, but especially his coloring, so so cute.




And Zoey's soccer team has won 3 of the 3 tournaments they have played in this fall, including the state championship. They are a pretty darn good group of 10-11 year olds. It is fun to watch... Here they are:





And for back to school night, Max drew a self portrait and he told me to guess which one was him. I took the picture and sent it to Ross so I could see if I was right! (Phew, I was:)


And during that back to school night, it started raining. Like, seriously raining. I was walking to my car and the water was rushing down the street so fast that when I crossed it, the water was almost up to my knees! I was, like, ummm, I thought I was in Colorado? Where there is a drought? All kidding aside, the rain is what began as the 100 yr flood in Boulder. Craziness, really.

The kids had four days off of school and Ross couldn't go to work one day because he couldn't get out of Boulder because all the roads were closed. And one night, we actually had evacuation orders to "move to higher ground!" The kiddos were a little freaked out by that one, for sure. We were in our big brick apartment building, so it was fairly safe. Ross went out and checked all around and decided we were better off staying put. The little houses all around us got flooded though.

After most of the rain had stopped, we went walking by our apartment. Here is the street filled with mud and debris...


And a little view of the mountains with low clouds... kind of the calm after the storm....


And you might have seen this rescue on the news... We drive by (and sometimes on!) this road almost every single day!!



When we first moved to Ohio, in September, we had a crazy dry hurricane that knocked power out for 11 days and the kids missed school for that too. When you make it all about me, it is sort of like a crazy weather welcoming committee every time I move somewhere!! (that started out as a joke, but its not so funny anymore)

So, that is a little catch up with iPhone pictures. I have lots more to come!