A Year of Change

It’s 6:45 and we’re running around here like some family in a movie that just realized we all woke up late and are going to miss our flight! Not sure how we overslept as Jagger’s alarm goes off at 5:45 and I’m the usually the King of waking up early all the time. Anyhow we’re late!

Yesterday morning it was so cold that I pulled the door handle off our suburban trying to open the frozen door to take the kids to school. That’s it, defective car, time to get a new one! (just kidding)

Lori went to the museum with the kids yesterday and finally made it home from work at 7pm. Ty was hit in the head with a snow/ice ball at school and was in the clinic. Some kids told him they didn’t want him to be friends with another kid as that kid was gay (he’s really not) and an asshole, all in 5th grade, wow! Good for Ty though as he stood up for himself and said that he’ll decide who he’s friends with and who he’s not.

Throw in a bunch of bills and work and that was the day. Time to run, hope all’s well, God Bless.

Well at least the kids had a 4 day weekend. They played a lot too while Lori and I pretty much worked. Today they’re back at it but it’ll be a short week. Today Ty has a field trip to the Museum of Natural History and Lori is a chaperone. I have to run up north and visit a few accounts and then get on some paperwork that needs to be done.

It snowed some more last night but only a few inches. We had a good 8 or more inches and I’m sure the roads will be pretty messy today, especially this morning. Not much else going on except in about 10 days it’ll be March! They say March is our snowiest month so probably more of the white stuff to come. Time to go, hope you all are well, God Bless.

The snow is back, in the form of about 3 or 4 inches of heavy wet snow and it’s still coming down. When the snow is wet it seems like much more than it is as it’s so dense. This is the kind of snow where lots of people have heart attacks when shoveling as it’s so heavy. It’ll stop tonight but then return next weekend in the form of a foot or more, so they say.

Yesterday was sort of a milestone. It was our 1500th post. 1500 days doesn’t seem like a big number until you realize that it makes up 4.109 years! If fact if you live to let’s say 80 years old, that’s only 29,200 days. So if you’re let’s say 50 years old and you live until 80, you have 10,950 days to go! If you’re 80 and live to 90, you have 3,650 days, you get the picture, right! Makes you not want to waste a single day, doesn’t it.

Yesterday we left Aspen around 10:30 but stopped at their Ranch in Basalt with Greg and Billie. After a short visit there to check on the 12,000 square foot home, we followed them to their storage units to help them load up a bunch of red carpet for their Oscar Party this coming Sunday. They’ve invited 170 people! Billie said last year they had 140! We in no way would ever want to have a party with that many people, ever.

Anyhow we made it home by a little after 2pm after stopping for some sandwiches in Edwards on the way. We beat most of the ski traffic which was a good thing.

Today the kids are off school and still sleeping. Lori is going to try to get into work but it’s pretty messy out there and as I said, still coming down. Thankfully I’ll be close to home for the day.

That’s about it, a whirlwind weekend. Lots to do this week, take care and God Bless.

Aspen really is a great town. The trick is knowing it well enough to get beneath the surface of money, glitz and egos. Once you do this, it’s a really great place to visit or live. We pulled into town about 11am and went straight to Greg and Billies. Lori and Billie changed to go up the gondola to the Aspen Mountain Club where they had the fashion show. There were lots of friends that Lori knew who were also going which was a surprise to her.

Meanwhile I gave Jag and Ty an American Express card and they headed into town while Greg and I went to lunch at the Hickory House for some ribs. I asked the boys to go with us but they wanted to head off on their own. Aspen is about the only place I feel ok letting the boys head out on their own.

Greg and I and the boys made it back to their house around the same time and then worked and played until about 4pm when we went to pick up the girls. After we all made it back to the house, we visited until around 6 when we headed out to dinner. Right outside of the restaurant (which is a great account of mine) there was a concert with a band called Cracker, which is a pretty big national act, that came to town to play for Valentines Day. It was neat for the boys to see as they’d never seen a rock concert up close. Anyhow it was a great dinner and we had a good time and then headed back to the house.

This morning we’re heading out early to get home by early afternoon. It was a short but good and productive trip that included a nice drive. Hope everyone had a good day, take care and God Bless.

Well our 4 day weekend didn’t get off to a very good start, in fact we’re now hoping for a good 2 day weekend. Lori went to work and made it home by a bit before 4 and I was gone at 8:30 and then worked around here and was also running around town. We’ll see how the rest of the weekend goes but it looks like Monday is at least half way out as it is. So with a little luck, it’ll be a 2 and 1/2 day weekend at most, or as I said, a good 2 day weekend.

This morning we’re off to Aspen. We are supposed to be in town between 11 and noon. Lori is then going to some fashion show from Paris at the top of the mountain and has to be on the gondola by I think 12:30. Our friend Billie committed a while ago so she has to go and is dragging Lori along with her. Meanwhile Greg and I and the boys will hang out until they get back and then we’ll all go to dinner. Sunday we’ll get up and head out pretty early so we make it home by early afternoon and beat the ski traffic. I have some business to discuss with Greg and we haven’t seen them since last summer so we all decided to get together.

We could have gone up today and stayed until Monday but we were just too busy. Time to run so we can hit the road, Happy Valentines Day!!!

Hope everyone has a great day, God Bless.

The boys have the next four days off and Lori is supposed to too. But alas, she’s going in this morning after all. Now me, I work every single day in some form or another as there’s always some issue that I need to personally handle.

We had baseball practice and Jagger’s school conferences last night. In short, while he’s a great student, praised by all his teachers as a joy to have in class, which we knew, the common theme from all his teachers is that he’s become a leader in the classroom that other students look up to. I’ve been stressing this in baseball trying to get him to set an example for the other kids and be a leader on the team and it apparently is transferring over to school as well. All good stuff.

Meanwhile Ty and Vinny came home from school with their Valentines Day boxes (Mom made a giant Rubix Cube for Ty) full of Valentines from classmates and candy. Ty then went to Vinny’s house until we were done with baseball.

Tomorrow we’re off to Aspen for the night to stay with our friends, do some business and have dinner. It’s be a long drive but not too bad and we’ll come home Sunday.

Hope all’s well, need to run, God Bless.

Today we’re starting to warmup again but on Monday the snow will return. Looks like we’ll head to the mountains tomorrow and be in Aspen until Sunday morning when we’ll drive home. The kids are off tomorrow and Monday for Presidents Day. Tonight we have conferences at Jag’s school and then baseball practice at 7:30. Ty has his Valentines Day party at school this afternoon.

Yesterday at recess the kids were all playing Ultimate Tag which is some sort of tag when a girl, I think with some issues, went sort of crazy and attacked Ty and another boy by using her fingernails as claws and was hissing and the kids and ended up scratching him in his neck. I received a call when I was down at Lori’s work and headed right to the school. The girl scratched him hard enough so it bled and the nurse washed it with soap and water. I took him out of school and sprayed Bactine on it when we arrived home. When the kids were asked what happened, nobody could explain why the girl went off and began attacking everyone. I think we’ll find out more today as the Principal was busy with another incident at school all afternoon which required the police who were there when I picked up Ty. All of this in elementary school.

Lori has a sales meeting this morning meaning she’s off early and I have a few things that have to get done as well. Time to run, hope you have a good weekend, God Bless.

Last night was our first outside baseball practice and the kids looked really good! Jagger, despite having a cast on until two weeks ago, was particularly sharp, in all three phases. He threw well, his fielding was flawless and hit hitting was solid. He said his arm hurt a little bit but I think he’s almost past it. Most of the other kids looked good too. There’s one kid who really struggled last year who we haven’t invited to either of our two practices so far as if we have this one boy back, we’re going to probably cut him from the team. That may sound heartless but we’re now at the age where we owe it to everyone to put the best product out there that we can. Still it’s too bad as it won’t be fun to be that kid and being told the team doesn’t want you. Oh well, that’s life, unless you follow the dummycrats and  Obummer’s philosophy where everyone gets a trophy. (sorry to any dems out there but giving every kid a trophy, which they advocate in school, just sets kids up for greater disappointment later in life when reality hits)

Last night it snowed a bit but just enough to be a nuisance. It’s just wet and sloppy outside.  Not sure what we’re doing this weekend. We’re supposed to go to Aspen but might change our plans, we’ll see.

That’s about it, I’ve run out of things to say, hope everyone is well, take care and God Bless.

This morning it’s a bit busier than usual. I have to go to Boulder for a few appointments and it’s clinic day at work for Lori. All the girls at work had laser treatments yesterday on the new Halo Laser. I guess when something new comes along, they all volunteer to be guinea pigs. Lori’s face is pretty red and she said it burned for an hour and a half but some of the other girls still had burning faces 4 hours later. All I could think was no thanks!

We have baseball practice after school from 4 to 6 and then it’s supposed to snow tonight but just a couple of inches.

We’ve been looking on line at houses and it’s tough to find something that we like a whole lot more than our house for a reasonable price. Our accountant did validate our plan financially on moving though as we’ll get a 100% tax exemption on any profits. The O’Connell’s are moving too. They live a few houses from us and have been there since I was a kid. We visited yesterday and they were thrilled I came over as they don’t have a clue what to do or what to sell for. They’re now going to raise their price a bit (thank God I went over!) and have a few things for us and the boys that they insist we have. They’re moving across town to a retirement community that’s closer to their kids. They’re really nice people that always enjoy us coming over, especially the boys. The old neighborhood just isn’t what it used to be. When we moved in our kids were the “little kids” on the block but now they’re the oldest and there’s lots of really young kids on the street. Lori and I are now also the “old parents” with most of the neighbors being 15 or 20 years younger than us, so time to go!

So the search goes on. We could end up anywhere from a mile to 15 miles away. We hope some new things will come on the market as Spring approaches. Hopefully lots of people are thinking the same as us.

That’s about it, time to run, it’s 6:30 now and we need to get moving. Take care and God Bless!

At least it feels that way. It was so warm today that we played baseball and basketball outside in shorts and bare feet, or at least the kiddos did. They say the snow will be back Wednesday but it’s been like in the 70’s or so. This morning we have Ty’s parent teacher conference and then are both back to work. Tuesday and Thursday Jag and I have baseball practice and Wednesday night we have something going but I can’t remember right now.

We also took a Sunday drive around Evergreen looking at houses. You sure don’t get very much for your money theses days. Prices just keep going up and up. We’re going to try to get some land with our next house if possible.

Valentines Day is later this week, I think on Saturday. We really don’t do much as it’s just another day and we pretty much try to celebrate being together every day. We’re lucky in that way. My calves are sore and Lori’s neck a little sore from hiking up to the ski races Saturday. It’s a good sore though.

Sorry about the typo’s in yesterdays post. I went back and fixed them!

That’s about it, hope everyone is well, take care and God Bless.