Hard to tell in this picture, but the snow is coming down!  Looks like we are going to have a white Christmas!  Also looks like it will be snowing ON Christmas!  That is quite rare.  Looks like Missouri has a good chance for a white Christmas as well which it needs.  Not seen many at all in the years that we spent there.

 

We just got done watching "The Nativity Story" which is our annual movie tradition.  If you have not seen it...I suggest you go out and purchase it without any hesitation. 

 

 

I would like to wish each and everyone a wonderful Christmas!

 

Luke 2:1-14     In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.  So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests." 

This is one awesome video

Make sure that if you are in an area that you cant listen to music, that you turn this down...but I suggest you turn up the volume if you are in an area where you can listen to music...and ROCK OUT!

 

Click on the picture of the pug and enjoy the video and music!

HAPPY DOOMSDAY!!!!

 .....see you tomorrow.

DOOMSDAY EVE!

Welp!....Been nice!  Guess by this time tomorrow night, we will all have gone up in a blaze of glory as the apocalypse pulls its dark shroud of death over our world.  Weather forecast for the next 24 hours.....

Partly cloudy tomorrow morning with a 80% chance of falling asteroids after 10 am warming up to 5,897,000 degrees by the evening and cooling off to a crisp -890 degrees by midnight.  Allergy alert....those with asthma will need to stay indoors as dogs and cats will spontaneously combust causing higher than normal pet dander levels.

Just an FYI..

I    LOVE    MY   NEW   JOB!

 

Another year coming to a close.....

We just returned from our annual Branson Silver Dollar City Light Festival.  It was a hard thing to accomplish this year due to the fact that Deidra has no PTO saved up from her new job as of yet and I just started my new job Monday.  We bit our lips, rounded up the kids, hopped into the car and made a 12 hour journey to Missouri just to hang out for two full days and hop into the car for the 12 hour journey back to our new hometown.  Twas quite the haul, but worth every minute to be able to see our families and enjoy the traditional holiday event that we have come to love and look forward to.  Next year we should be ready to make the haul again and we be able to stay much longer.  None the less, we are approaching Christmas and are gearing up for our first New Year in the mountains.

Snow on the way!  Tonight I hear.  Should reach Missouri next week in the form of a cloudy, rainy and icy day or two.  Can't say I'll be missing that much.

For those of you star gazers out there....you will be happy to know that the "Geminids" will be blazing up the sky and it is supposed to be a doozy.  You should be able to see 120 or more "falling stars" every hour on the peak night of December 13th!  Click (HERE) to learn more.  Also wanted to mention some pretty crazy news I found out.  A HUGE comet is going to make its 1st known appearance to our little planet next year fall/winter.  Apparently it is the biggest, brightest ever to have been seen historically and is going to be brighter than the moon in our sky as it passes by.  Want to see what I am talking about I have included a link if you click (HERE) that will take you to a page that will go into details about this once in a lifetime extraordinary stellar event!

In other news:  It appears that a local weather man mistakenly predicted a massive tornado in Oakland due to the sucking noises coming from that area...found out in fact that that was just the Raiders team...they SUCK!  We beat the Raiders...again....no shocker here.  I was a little confused that they were still even an NFL team.  What do they call their home stadium again?  Oh yea...the "Bung Hole".  Anyway.......we used them to "pad the stats" so to speak...on to next week!

Go Broncos!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

We, as many of you know, start our holiday season at 6:00 am November 1st every year and this year we started at about 5:47 am because we just cant seem to get enough!  Last night I prepared the home made stuffing that has been passed down to me that started with my grandparents....it is "goooOOD!" as "Uncle Eddy" from Griswolds Christmas Vacation would say.  Deidra prepared the sweet potato souffle and both will be going in the oven soon!  The turkey is all buttered and seasoned up and is in the roaster as we speak!  Wine and sparkling grape juice is chilling in the fridge and the rolls are rising on the counter!  Santa is on the sleigh in the parade in the background which means that the parade is coming to an end and the season has officially started and we are revving up our holiday motors to begin the Christmas season and let the joy of the season shine!  This weekend we are off to Estes Park to do a bit of shopping and sight seeing.  Next week we shall get ready for our annual Old Fashioned Silver Dollar City Christmas that we look forward to every year! 

Happy Thanksgiving from your Rocky Mountain Family!



Let the holiday season begin!

 

First real snow today! We have had several "frosty" mornings...but nothing like this until today. Deidra is making up a pot of chili and the kids stepped outside to get their first experience of a Colorado snow. We got the Christmas stuff out and are decorating today. For those of you who forgot what snow was....its that white stuff falling on the kids in these pics. Going to get the fireplace going and enjoy some cozy time with my little family with some delicious bowls of chili. Hope everyone is doing well.

 

We made it!

We did it!  Our goal has been achieved!  Now it is time to make a new goal.  Currently we are happy with our new mountain surroundings, but would love nothing more than to purchase a house.  Deidra is very happy in her new job and I have a part time job unloading trucks.  The part time job will finally give me the opportunity to go back to school and get my degree.  This is something that we decided we would do several years ago.  She went first...now its my turn.  It is funny how much you want to find a way to go back into time and smack your younger self around for some of the decisions you made isn't it?  Anyhow, it is never too late to start enjoying life the way you want to.

Here in the mountains, the leaves are turning as fall is now on top of us.  The mornings here are crisp at 42-48 degrees and it warms up to the mid 80's by mid day only to drop into the 50's before bedtime.  I LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR!  As you can see by the pic above, the aspens are looking wonderful.  At this point they are green/gold and getting brighter by the day.  Taylor found a pretty good walking stick on our hike and we went to the store to get some sandpaper for him so he can turn it into a great one.

Well, its time for me to go get some things done.  Ill post again soon.  More pics to come and I will be periodically changing the look of this site.  Deidra will also start posting soon and a Flickr link will be added to the right so that we can post all of our pictures.  In order for you to be able to see those pics,  you will need to join Flickr.  It is free and many pics are on there already so get to it!

Have a great week!

Oh...I forgot....

Home under contract!

The house has been under contract for about 2 weeks now.  We are so excited that this chapter of our lives is about to come to an end, bringing the exciting future we have been working toward closer than ever!  I should find out this week if the people wanting to purchase our house have final loan approval from their bank.  Once I find that out, a SOLD sign will be placed in the yard and we will be moving into the apartment that we just rented this weekend.  Good thing is its a short lease and has enough room to put all of our things that we will be moving out of our house into one place making it much easier for us to make the final move from here to Colorado.  We have boxes all over and the kids are starting to pack all of their things.  We have to be in our new apartment by June 1st.  Closing on the house takes place in about 4 weeks.  Deidra is about to pull the trigger on applying for a job out west.  We already have our Colorado apartment picked out.  So excited!

This last weekend my daughter got her first soccer goal of her life.  Just thought I would post that here.  Proud of that little bugger.

Wine gets better with time....however...some things get .... well....just sad.

New Blog Format Comming Soon

Ok, so to be clear, this blog was created to invite my close friends and family into our lives. In a way to get a cookie from the cookie bowl of our lives and enjoy a small portion of what we enjoy daily. hahaha. Truly I started this blog to give a small window view into the month to month world that we are experiencing as we struggle to do what most would consider unthinkable; to leave an entire world with a certain paycheck for another that is healthier, cleaner and the paycheck may be smaller. It seems crazy until you sit down and look at the big picture.

I believe each of us were created with the chance to make something great of our lives and live in it. Don't misunderstand that last sentence. "Something great" in the past could be something as big as discovering that the world was round. Could have been finding the cure to some terrible disease that killed many that you love. It could have been moving out into the unknown with the ones you love to discover what lies beyond and make an exciting and wonderful life and the start of some small legacy that your future will unfold to those that it matters to. For me, I believe that I need more in life for me and for my family. I also believe that to obtain that, we need to seek less.

For those of you who are christian and believe as I do that you were created by one God that loves you and wants you to seek your life as he understands it to be, this will be easier for you to understand. For those of you who are not, I can only say that each of us depend on too many things that are made by someone else and without those things we would no longer be able to function and would shut down just as your computer or your iphone shut down when you no longer provide the power for it to work.

In short, I believe we depend on too much. My goal in the coming years is to learn to do more on my own and share this adventure with my family. It will be a simple change at first but a change none the less towards becoming less stressed in life.

The format of this blog will change in the very soon future into something else. We will be moving soon and our new life will be starting. We will be starting fresh and new and so will this blog.

Stay tuned. Its going to be fun.