Go West young man!
Today was the opening of the new W light rail line. Grandma wanted to ride the train…oh, and it was free today. So, we got Grandma and rode the E line to Union station. It was a good trip into town,...
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Sunday
It’s funny how great truths can be wrapped in a simple package (yep, I was teaching in the 2′s/3′s room today.) The lesson was on King David and the theme was ‘God is here and near’. The little kids...
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Fun!
Last night we took Grandma to church with us for a family friendly play. The play was long, they could have cut about half of it, but the kids thought it was funny and during intermission there were...
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GS water day
Today we went to the Aurora reservoir for the GS water journey badge. We played globe toss and found out that about 70% of the earth is water. We watched a demonstration about how much water on the...
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This morning I put up 3 loads of laundry and pulled out our dance stuff to see what we needed. Two white shirts, 2 pairs of tights, 3 pairs of ballet shoes and 1 set of bloomers. I had a plan to...
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Buffalo Bill
I have to say that the Castle Rock historical society has much better meetings than the Highlands Ranch society. We went to the CR library last night to hear “Gunny” Jeff Norman spin us the tale of the...
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Fun Friday
Today Grace got to listen in on a live interview with a marine geologist through JASON. She typed in some questions for Nicole Raineault, a marine geologist with the Nautilus Corps of Exploration. You...
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All aboard!
Ding, ding, all aboard the Castle Rock trolley for a tour of downtown CR. We started at the CR museum, which we recently toured. Here is a picture of it before they moved it to the current location....
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CU, recycle, tea and cheese
I’m sure that won’t make any sense to most people. We started our day at the CU natural history museum. We wandered the exhibits and Hannah read some books to me. They still have the bug exhibit...
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It’s time for another episode of…
Duck, duck dupe! Can you spot the dupe? The Duckini familini was being very silly today, wearing presents from their cousin who was helping out with the show. Story 1 – King Henry the VIII wanted to...
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Happy Father’s Day
James and I walked to the store this morning, it was already starting to heat up, but still a nice cool breeze was floating by. We had a coffee at Starbucks and bought cinnamon rolls for the girls...
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Ode to an Ode
Yes, we’ve seen it before, but James hadn’t and besides…..we like to support local theater. So, we went to Buntport for a special showing of – Ode to an Ode. The story of famed poet and swordsman...
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Bees, cheese, flowers and a swim
We got an e-mail from CU saying that they had more bee blocks for the Bees’ needs citizen scientist project, so we went to pick it up. Here is the block, we put it on the side of the house and we have...
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Artwalk
Found a new food truck – Waffle up! Waffles with Nutella and bananas and a waffle with lemon curd and raspberries – yum! Music on the walk. Art and the pondering connoisseur. Cool piece of art on...
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City park jazz
Our lazy Saturday continued into the night with pizza at home and Shaun the Sheep episodes. Sunday our house guest left to go back to Texas, the girls and I watched the 2 year olds at church and we ate...
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Elitch gardens + Aquarium = Full day of fun
Thanks to the library and a friend who gave me a parking pass our trip to Elitch was totally free, I love that word. We also brought snacks and a lunch with us, so the food was free too! We rode the...
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Estes Park
On the way there… Lake Estes. We went to Estes Park for the Heritage festival and we got to see the Paint horse show and the Draft horse show as a bonus. The first contest for the draft horses was...
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Grillin’ at the park
Since James was working from home today and it was a nice day, we went to Flyin’ B park and grilled chicken chipotle sausages and beef and cheddar sausages for lunch. The girls caught minnows and we...
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Zoppe’
Incredibile! Meraviglioso! Il Zoppe’ circo è in città! The incredible, wonderful Zoppe’ circus is in town! We saw this small Italian-American family circus today and it was amazing. There were tight...
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School, cafe’, shopping, trinkets.
This morning it snowed. Not a lot, just enough to cover the rocks in the front yard and fluff on the grass for a bit. Small flakes buried themselves in tree crevices and tried to pile onto the leaves....
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