hiking the Crags

what a great way to start off your morning. 4 mile hike in the snow.

man it was amazing

we were the only ones out there today and it was nice and quiet.

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope you all had a wonderful day with family and Friends.

Jonathan and Olivia came to the Fire station to have lunch with us.

40 family and friends joined us today.

Sleep tight.

finishing crafts

we finished the third pumpkin.

and the scare crow that went with the turkey.

Then Olivia played photographer with my camera, and took a whole bunch of great pictures. She took all the pictures for this post.

crafts

Only had a little of time and our friend Jackie gave Olivia this turkey to color. Great for easy and short on time. Perfect decoration for the house.

More crafts

Wal-Mart had these great pumpkins for only 50 cents a piece. I could not let that go by. So I bought three and brought them home and we decorated the outside of them in a thanksgiving theme. It was fun and really cheap. I figured after thanksgiving I will let Olivia carve them for fun.

Denver Zoo

Denver Zoo had a FREE day.

We could not pass that up.

Red Kangaroos

drum playing,

Hippo climbing,

red something panda,

they had an awesome bat exhibit,

Cobras were very active today,

Polar bear scratching chin,

A perfect day. It was supposed to be snowing and it was just a little chilly. What a day!

a little glimps

A little idea of what I do. So we get a call at 10:21pm to go to a car that ran into a house. En route dispatch tells us that the house is on fire. Then dispatch tells us to stage, a gun is involves. So after staging (waiting) for 3 hours on the side of the road while swat tries to get the guy out of the house. The house was on fire twice, police put it out with extinguishers, then he lite it off again. So after he finally gave up, he was flown to a hospital for smoke inhalation. Then we attended to the fire.

this green picture is from flight. When they were coming for the patients this is what they saw when they took off 25 miles away.

a day in the life of the fire house.

2nd Thanksgiving celibration

Thankful Tree, make your tree with your family, trace out three hands a piece, and have that person write one thing on each hand of what they are thankful for. Then share them with the family as you put them up. It is a colorful piece to our kitchen now.

first Thanksgiving decor

Table top name tags.

(thanks bree for the website on one of your previous arts and crafts)

Halloween Eve run

We ran a 5k race on Halloween eve.

Olivia did great, she ran about 1.5 miles all on her own. Then she got tired and I carried her in while running. (not recommended)
Jon and I were Rag dolls and won the CUTEST couple.

After our 5k race Olivia ran the kids 1 mile race. Yes she had energy to run a whole mile by her self. She did awesome.

We all had a wonderful time and hope we can do this next year.

Nothing like burning calories before eating junk food.

Preperation for Halloween

Olivia's homemade Vampire Cat costume. Not to bad to make.
Then we carved pumkins at the fire station.

Boston Trip

We all headed to Boston to visit Jonathan's family and for a honeymoon.

First thing was first, Beach.

In front of mom's house was a beautiful maple tree with all its colors we do not see in Colorado.

We traveled to Salem,

This is the freedom bell.

Looking up at me, I am looking down on you.

Olivia loved the snail everywhere.

Pirate got a wholed of Olivia

Booooo

The weather was holding out so we headed to

Gloucester to walk on the beach.

we found some craps we played with and two shrimp.

Shrimp move really fast.

We then headed to Boston to walk around Old Italy

Stopped at North end Fire Station.

The next day Olivia wanted to do my hair since I did hers.

Then we headed to Boston all day.

State Capital

That night Olivia met her cousin.

Boston Airport, headed home.

D.C. airport

We had a awesome vacation, the weather held out for us.

Can't wait to go back and see more of the New England States.