And the next part of our warn and dry fall went like this.........
We went to Moab for some fall fun and the pumpkin chuckin' festival. The boys and I packed up our "homeschool" and took it to desert for 10 days of hiking, biking, four wheeling, sand dune climbing, swimming and music park time. Trevor came down with us the first weekend for a camping/four wheeling weekend of dirty boy fun and then the boys and I stayed in town at the Roufa's until everyone else showed up the next weekend. This year we were joined by our friends the Aplins, Grandma and MacMac and Modee and Pappy. We also saw many of our Telluride friends out enjoying one last weekend of warmth before we all settled in for the winter. The weather was sunny and only a little chilly, we still went swimming at the outdoor pool at the condo.
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| Ella giving Colter pointers on how to properly launch the little pumpkin at her brother Jackson, I mean at the target. |
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| The Aplins are another homeschooling family and we enjoy getting together with then several times a week. |
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| I think Jackson and Colter were designing their own mega cannon . Watch out! One of these air cannons set the world record for shooting a pumpkin over a mile. |
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| There is always a learning opportunity if you keep your eyes peeled. |
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| Colter picked up a Halloween cookbook while we were at the store and was so inspired that we made an entire Scary Dinner Surprise for Daddy, Grandma and MacMac when joined us in Moab. It was so much fun to make and mostly made from healthy fruits and veggies, including Colter's new favorite Jicama. Colter was the main veggie carver and foodscape designer. Dylan helped out by setting the table, giving good ideas and taste testing everything. |
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| Boys and their toys! This is Colter on the OSET electric motorcycle. It doesn't have a seat, as it is a trials bike, so the boys learn incredible balance. |
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| They wnt on a couple of longer rides with Trevor and spent the rest of the time riding around the camp area. |
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| OUCH!!!!! Dylan landed right on this cactus. He was very patient as Trevor tweezed out hundreds of little bits. |
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| Of course a handful of Newman-O's helped him feel better. |
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| I love these pictures and memories like these. Both boys look so happy and I love the "leap of faith" approach. I am proud of my boys for being so adventurous and glad that they will generally try anything once to see if they like it. Colter told me the other day about a mom of one his new friends who had never skied, never rock climbed and didn't want her boys to climb to high up an easy hill. He was blown away that a mom would "train her kid to be scared". It was a great chance for us to talk about differences in parenting styles and living life based on fear vs. living life based on love and trust. Also pretty funny to me that he is just realizing that most people don't get to do all the cool stuff we do all the time. |
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| Yeah for my happy boys! They have a very cool Dad who plays hard with them. We love to go climb, run and jump on the giant sand dune just across from the Arches entrance. This year the boys started trying front flips with me. The slope is very steep and the sand is so soft that it is easier to flip around then it is to stop the rotation in time, but it doesn't really matter because it is a nice landing. |
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| The Blakney's out on the prowl for candy. Any guesses on Rob's costume? Remember the old Christmas Classics cartoons with Rudolph, the Abominable Snowman (Noah) and Yukon Cornelius? Only about 5 people around town got it on their own, others would point and say "oh you're the guy from Rudolph......ahhh...I can picture it, what is his name? |
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| Modee and her crew. It is fun to have everyone so close by for events like this. From the left- Grace (2), Noah(4), Gideon (6), Eli(8), Colter(8) and Dylan(5) |
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| Sir Colter the Goofball and Sir Dylan the Drummer Boy sit with Modee the Spider Witch. |
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| All of us except Pappy (who is taking the picture) |
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| Cute family pic in the middle of main street. I love Halloween in Telluride! |
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| Gideon and Dylan |
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| Eli and Colter |
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| Yukon Cornelius and Bumbles |
These last several posts have been "back blogs" I fell behind last summer and have been attempting to catch up in chunks. Although I love having the pictures posted and small captions, it is my intention to catch up and then move forward with more writing and detail. I'm not sure about anyone else, but I love looking back over the years and reading how we were feeling, what we liked and what we learned from different phases and experiences.
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