At Home in the Mountains

We continued to work on Aaron's office. He wanted a mini fridge and a microwave so we got that at Wal-Mart. I am being the decorator for his office. HA HA. We are going for a Western theme. We bought a beautiful print of Pike's Peak by a local artist on Sunday. They had and art show at the fossil beds, so we went out again and saw that and bought a print for the office. It supported the fossil beds. They did all of the dirt work end of last week and beginning of this week. They backfilled all the dirt in around the foundation. You can see in this picture that they ran into the corner of the garage and cracked it. They tried to reform it but did a really bad job. It has a major crack. The guys who tried to fix it were the guys that broke it with the skidster, not the builders, so Aaron wrote to them and they came out and checked it today. They said we will have to reform that corner. I think it can be done but they need to talk to the engineer about it so pretty signific...

Well the last week has been the classic cliche of hurry up and wait. Maddy is really enjoying her Sunday school. Above is her worksheet from last week. I love the circled 10 with the arrow pointing up the scale. After church we went out to the fossil beds. Maddy had been asking to eat at McD's for quite a while. She saw the commercials when we watched the olympics that the chicken nuggets are now free of artificial flavors, colors and preservatives and are made with "real" chicken. I still have my doubts about some of these claims but we did let her try them. No ill effects after, so guess they were ok. They used to make her sick as a dog. While we were eating, this Stellar Jay came to visit. I could only get pics of his silhouette. The lighting was just not right where we were sitting. He was a very pretty bird and pretty friendly. The girls also loved a chipmunk that came to check out the scraps they were dropping. After lunch, we went and got Maddy a Jr...