The Rockies vs the Dodgers

Well the Rockies are completely out of the pennant race but we got a chance to see them play the Dodgers last night anyway. The Dodgers won but we still had a good time and Clare got a chance to have ice cream. It was pretty chilly but kids don't care. They just want ice cream and candy! Coors Field is a really nice place to watch baseball and we got pretty good seats near the third base line. It's funny but it seemed like there were more Dodger fans then Rockies fans last night. I really wanted them to go home disappointed but it just wasn't meant to be I guess. We were glad we were able to see the "boys of summer" one last time before the end of the 2006 season.

We also went for a walk around the neighborhood the other night and Clare got to show off her sunglasses. I have to admit she looks pretty cute in them. She brought them to day-care and wanted to wear them even while she was napping. Her teacher made her take them off but put them on the table right where she was sleeping and told Clare she could have them when she woke up. Clare, sneaky little girl that she is, PRETENDED to be asleep. Her teacher Kim said she looked over out of the corner of her eye and saw Clare's hand slowly reach up and take the glasses. She put them on and immediately crashed. The trees are all changing right now, the air is getting crisp and the elk are mating up in the Rockies. We're going to try and get up there to hear the males bugle either this weekend or the next. We'll be sure to get some pictures to share with everyone. That's all for now!

Are you ready for some football?

WOOHOO!!! The official start of the NFL season was a couple of weekends ago and we all put on our blue and orange and rooted for our home team, the Broncos. Unfortunately they lost. A week later though they brought home a victory against the Kansas City Chiefs. If Grandpa Willis was alive we could have had some smack-talk over that one since KC was his favorite team.

The next weekend we went to "Broomfield Days." It's a small city fair they have at the Broomfield Commons with extremely tasty (and bad for you) food and things like young girls dancing, the local gymnastics group doing a demonstration, a live band, etc...
Well, it was windy. Really windy. And we decided to share some funnel cake covered in powdered sugar. We were literally COVERED in powdered sugar. Clare loved it though and we managed to get most of it off when we were finished. Broomfield is a really nice place. It has a definite small town feel to it, which is a nice change from Orange County. It also has four seasons, which we like too. The days have started to get a little crisp and the leaves are turning. I think I like fall the best here. It's mating season for the elk, so we'll be heading up to Estes Park soon to watch and listen to the males bugle.

And to wrap things up, a picture of Clare playing with a box. It's funny how kids seem to have more fun playing with a cardboard box or some kitchen spoons then they do with the coolest toy bought at Toys R Us.

Camping at Lake Dillon

A couple of weeks ago we went camping with our friends Ian and Ingrid at Lake Dillon. It's a beautiful lake by Frisco an hour and a half west of Denver. We weren't sure where it was since our friends picked it and it turns out it's literally NEXT to the town (Target, Starbucks, Just Tires) and the 70 freeway. So if you're used to being lulled to sleep by the sound of crickets, I wouldn't recommend camping at Lake Dillon since all you can hear are the cars whizzing by on the freeway. But hey, if you're really craving Starbucks, you can just walk there from your camp. A nyway, we got there at about 3:00pm and walked around the lake and admired the view.


Then Debra, Ingrid, Ian I settled in for a couple of games of Perudo. Man...I just can't get enough of this dice game! It involves bluffing and lying about the dice under the cups. I believe Ian lied the best that night.

After Perudo we did the typical camping food of hotdogs, beans and chips. Clare got her first taste of smores and liked them quite a bit. At about 11:00pm we decided we needed to go to sleep. It was then that we realized we had a problem when Clare refused to get in the tent. We managed to coax her into it and I eventually got her to fall asleep on my chest. There was no way I could sleep that way though so I tried to gently ease her off me. Well...she woke up and to make a long story short, we got everything packed up and we pulled into our driveway 2 hours later at 1:30am. If we were SMART, we would have had a practice night in our tent in our backyard. I'm sure in a year or so Clare will think sleeping in a tent is the coolest thing next to cake but for now, it's just too weird for her.