First day of School

I really love our advent activities each year.  Sometimes it’s very hard to execute them at the end of a long day, but the kids really look forward to pulling the card out and being surprised each day.  And, we make some really great memories. This year we started a new tradition inspired by one…

Our last Saturday in Boston!  It started with Rusty running 18 miles and ended with all of us in our beds, totally spent.  Next we were off to the MIT museum.  This was really fun!  Robotics, Holograms, and kinetic art held us captive.  Ice Cream at Toscanini’s rounded out the morning. We had a fun…

That’s how many miles I ran on Sunday. Nat and I ran the Denver 1/2 Marathon and it was awesome! We started training about mid July, and in some ways it’s hard to believe it’s over. I loved the challenge of each week pushing your body to go farther and/or faster than you’ve ever gone…

This year Kids Against Hunger was bigger and better!  We had so many friends come help us package food and everyone had a great time. My kids were able to donate $80 toward the cost of the meals.  All in all our group donated around $600!  We were able to package 2592 meals, which shattered…

“By the rude bridge that arched the food, Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.”                                      –Ralph Waldo Emerson Walden Pond “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see…

Hi y’all, Rusty here. Last week my Dad was in town so we decided to hit a 14er while he was here. We were going to hike Longs peak, which is the big one you can see from my house, but a freak August snowstorm blew in on Saturday and buried everything above 12000 feet…