Before and After

Before

After

We've been painting and changing a few things on the outside of our house. The "little old lady" blue has been changed to black and we painted the front door dark red. We also pulled out some bushes and have been trimming up trees. It's looking better, but we still have a few more projects to go.

Fire with the Beringer Boys

Zekke and Titus spent Saturday night with us and we had some fun roasting marshmellows. Mom and Dad bought us a cool fire pit for our anniversary and we've got some good use out of it. The boys love to come over and roast marshmellows and they always have some funny things to say. This time, Zekke told me he would roast me a mellow and that I should tell him if that it was good enough to win a contest. He didn't care what kind of a contest, he just wanted to know if it would win if he entered it. After eating about 5 more marshmellow than I wanted (with these boys, you have to like eating marshmellows - they roast 'em, you eat 'em), we decided he could win the contest. For the most part, they both do a good job, but it's pretty funny watching them when the marshmellow catches on fire.

Getting a little Patriotic

Here's a shot Jena took about a year ago when we were still in Greeley. The community college had about 500 flags in a field for Labor Day/9-11 Memorial. It was a pretty cool sight. There happened to be a storm moving thru, so she also got some cool rainbow and cloud effects.

Western KS Sunset

To those of you who aren't in Western Kansas...

Here's you sunset shot. Jena took this by the corn field behind our house. Too bad the corn isn't Golden Harvest! Maybe next year.

Hoss's Clothes Basket

Hoss has a new favorite toy. He loves to attack the clothes basket and gets pretty fired up when you try to get it from him. He pushes it around with his nose and he can even pick it up and carry it around. He gets a little crazy at times so we have to hide it sometimes. Currently, he's had it taken away because he cut his foot open and didn't even slow down. He walks around the house looking for it, but can easily be distracted with a tennis ball (much safer!).

We miss Colorado!

We spent Labor Day weekend in Gunnison and had a good time visiting Matt's parents and Grandma. Linda came too and we had a great weekend. We spent part of Saturday on 'top of the world' at Monarch Pass. We drove to the top of the pass and then rode the gondola to the top. The elevation was near 12000 feet and the guy running the ride said you could see for about 125 miles. The rest of the day Saturday was spent hanging out in Gunnison. Sunday we hiked up Mill Creek about 2 miles. It was a fairly easy hike, but has us winded several times. There is some beautiful scenary up there and it makes me miss living so close to it. Check out some pics...