Hot Air Balloon Rodeo

Last Saturday, we got up early to see the balloons launch for the annual air balloon rodeo. It was pretty cool!

Continental Divide

Lessons learned while driving across the Rockies: 1) Driving up so high, with no guardrail next to you, is very scary. 2) It is very cold when you're 14000 feet up in the air. Bring a jacket.

Parades

I bet our 4th of July parade was better than yours. We had belly dancers and a camel...how about you?

P.S. After the parade, we also had a free concert by the Boulder Brass ensemble. It was excellent!

We have lots of visitors here

Last week, Liz's friend Kristi Colas and her family stayed in the church's trailer for several days. On Thursday night (while we were in the basement watching Bridge to Terabithia--can't say I recommend it, by the way), the Colas family saw this bear digging in the dumpster near our house. The car to the right is Jodie's (it was parked in front of our house) and the pine tree in the background is right in front of the girls' window. Kristi told us that they yelled at the bear, who had grabbed a bag of trash out of the dumpster, and he dropped the bag and escaped by running across our lawn and down the hill.

Liz wondered if we could line up the bear to come visit while we were here, so I told her I'd see about leaving raw meat outside every night until they arrive...

Ironically, I broke my flexible glasses this morning while I was cleaning them. So...I found a LensCrafters this afternoon, but to only find out that my new eye-care insurance doesn't use LensCrafters. I was able to get the eye exam done there, but didn't buy anything. At least I had my sunglasses which are prescription to not be totally blind today.
I found a place near here where I can use my insurance, so I'll go there first thing in the morning.

We had a good service today--Chris did SS and preached in the morning. :) He did a great job. His brother, TJ, was there as well as Matt and Kim. Afterwards we went to our favorite Brazilian buffet and ate lots. :)

Hope you had a good day!

Us at the wedding

Dieting

How are our dieters doing? Dad hasn't weighed himself, but he appears to be losing weight. Anyone else?

Weight loss report

It's been 11 weeks, and I've lost 24 pounds. :) Yay!!!

After my nine weeks on a diet...

21 pounds!

After 9 weeks

I've lost 25 pounds.

Get your signatures now, folks!

He's becoming famous!

Happy Birthday, Matt!!

Why it pays to live on the east coast...

New furniture!

At least for us. :) We bought this from Donna's parents who moved to an apartment. I love it!

Matt and I were a tad worried that it wouldn't make it to Sumneytown from Allentown, but it made it and didn't fall off the truck. :)

I love Weight Watchers!

Even with the weekend parties, I was able to lose 2 pounds last week. I'm down a total of 17.2 pounds (7.8 kilos)! I guess all that cleaning paid off. :)
Thanks for being supportive!

Chris's installment service

I don't have too many pictures, but it was a nice service. We had a little time of fellowship afterwards. Pastor was able to move the service to today since Leigh was here. It was nice of him to do that. It wasn't an ordination--I think that'll happen later on.

Chris's Graduation

We had the lunch in the youth room at Calvary because it was a little cold and there was a chance of rain. Thanks for praying for the weather though. It wasn't too bad, and I'm sure others that had parties outside appreciated the prayers. :)

(By the way, those are his Batman cuflinks he's wearing.)

I can't believe it

I can't believe that I was able to post something yesterday. For weeks the blogger baron wouldn't let me blog. It said I wasn't a team member!!!!
So ... now that I'm in, there's not much news here! Dad and I are here and not much exciting has happened recently. Monday, we had a lunch meeting about "Fundamentalismo" with the Harrises and Howells. Later in the afternoon, we went for a ride to Santa Clara; but it was pretty much a ghost town (since we are in winter) . Yesterday, Dad took the combi to a mechanic and will pick it up tomorrow. I am cleaning and re-organizing.

Still Alive in Colorado

Hello from Sumneytown

The weather has been nice, with the occassional thunderstorm--which is the best part of summer!
I went for an hour-long walk yesterday and discovered a new trail in our park. I'm planning on bringing my camera today when I go again. There's a lot of spring wild flowers out. :) I'm a sucker for flowers.
Most of the graduation announcements are out, so expect those in the mail. Wish you all could be there (Matt, you BETTER be there!) :)
Chris's mom will be coming out for it. It'll be good to see her.
Chris is working hard on his projects for his two classes. His last day of class is the 14th.
I've lost 9.2 pounds so far. :) That's pretty good for four weeks, I think.
Work has been pretty quiet for me recently. I'm waiting to see if it doesn't pick up much, I might try to find a more full-time position within the department. I get too bored, otherwise.
I've been feeling better, although still feel tired off and on. Yesterday was one of those days.
I trust everyone is doing fine and dandy! :D