Yankee Doodle

Jaylee may hate me for this when she is older,
but I had to post it.
I caught her singin' in the bath tub.
Watch for her reaction when she
notices I was recording her.

Sneak Peak

We finally got our family pictures done.
We will send out pictures for the holidays,
but here is a look at a few.

New Deck

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday: All Done!

Random pictures

Old Deck

New Deck.
It is in our garage for the time being,
but it is going up in just two weeks!

Jaylee doesn't miss her chance to pose for the camera before
she gets to work on her girls scout service project.
She and her friends are in the Outdoor section of the newspaper
on Thursday, Oct. 1st.

Beautiful views on one of our hikes last month.
It was pouring rain before and after this picture was taken.

Jaylee and Rhyann are scoping out the landscape
while Corben patiently waits for his turn.

I don't have pictures to update yet, but Jaylee has been busy lately.
I'm giving her piano lessons. She is picking it up very well.
She is a Daisy Girl Scout and did her first volunteer service project on Saturday.
She reseeded roads that BLM wants to keep motorcycles off of in Simons Canyon.
She is loving school. Her teacher only had good things to say about her in Parent-Teacher conferences.

We have ordered our new deck materials. Keven will pick it up next weekend.
We are excited for Robbie to come help us build it the third week of October.

I am starting to teach piano lessons this month. Spread the word. I'm starting with kindergarten ages now on beginner piano. I may expand if it goes well.

We hope everyone is enjoying the Fall season. We love this time of year.

Playing piano with Papa

Grandma and Papa Churchill stopped by last night. Jaylee wanted to show them that she was learning to play the piano. So far she plays Jingle Bells and the famous Knuckle song of which Papa had to join in. Anyone know the real name of that song? Grandma joined in too, but that video was too dark to see anything.
Enjoy the show. :o)

KINDERGARTEN

Today was Jaylee's first day of Kindergarten.

She is in Mrs. Fish's class at Mesa Verde.

She is so excited.

Family pictures

Family pictures

10 Years!

We had a great time in Durango

celebrating our 10 year anniversary.

We spent a day in Mesa Verde,

then took a jeep tour of La Plata Canyon

and climbed into a mine the next day.

Then we went to the Bar D saturday night.

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Churchill

for taking care of Jaylee while we were gone.

She had a great time with you.

Here is a few of the many picture I took.

Swim lessons

Jaylee completed another level of swimming lessons today.

After the final lesson, they let the kids go down the big water slide.

Jaylee was so excited, but needed her teacher to go down with her.

I couldn't help it.

I had to get a picture of those cheeky-cheekies.

Going up...

The slide

...and splash! Her teacher goes under to keep her up.

Jaylee-bug; the water-bug.

Flowers

Jaylee looked out the window this morning

and gasped for air. She was so excited to see

the flower buds she has been watching

finally bloomed!

Camping with the Fullers

Here we are taking shelter from the rain that didn't stop.

It cut our trip short, but we had fun anyway.

Here is Rhyanne, Hollee, Jacob, Corbin, Jaylee and Keven.