October Update

Friends

With October all but over, it's time to look back at a fun month where we did a lot, but blogged about very little of it.

We briefly mentioned the medieval-themed town fall festival in a previous posting, and here are our brave knights who just completed their training. The swords have been very popular toys ever since and they're nice because you really can't hurt anyone with them.

Then it was Beer Festival time, and the house was a zoo for 4 days. We had 14 people staying here, and both Daniel and Rachel had a blast playing with Zoe and Sean for the weekend. The kids played in the leaves, and ran around the house. Daniel was impressed that Zoe knows how to take pictures herself, and they had fun making pancakes together.

With 10 adults and 4 kids, the little ones got a lot of attention, and really enjoyed that - and the adults had a great time too -> probably the most successful and fun GABF weekend yet.

Immediately following the GABF festivities, we were all going to go on a trip with the Pastas up and around Wyoming, but Eric had to travel for work. So he didn't go, but everyone else did. Rather than try to tell the story again, I'll just cross-link you to the Pasta blog.

Pastas in Colorado Part 1

Beerfest and Friends in Colorado

Kids take a serious bubble bath

Wyoming Trip Part 1

Wyoming Trip Part 2

Wrapping up the trip

The family was back in Colorado by the following Friday, and then Miss Monica came back through Denver. So everyone was busy as bees for the first week that Eric was gone. The second week was a little calmer, and everyone was happy when he got back.

Last week, we drove up north to Miller family farm with the Backers. We'd never been up there before, but they have a lot of different activities for everyone. There were dirt-bike tractor races, a corn maze, the entire cast from the "cars" movie made out of old cars and more. As part of admission, you get to go on a hayride through the fields, stopping to pick vegetables that you can bring home. Rachel was entranced with this carrot, and we ended up with 20-30 lbs of carrots, beets, potatos, Onions, squash and leeks. Soup-time!

And that's skimming over a lot of details - October was a busy and fun month.

Love,

A.D.R.E