trip to colorado

playing in Estes Park, Colorado

3 generations

meeting Grampa Bill for the first time! instant friends!

3 generations

drinking from a straw successfully for the first time

more stuff for the silent auction!!

Thank you goes to Grampa Udon and McSpadden Ford for donating over 1,000.00 dollars of goods to the silent auction! He donated mud guards, running boards, step sides, seat covers and lots more! even some bug shields and a bumper! very cool!

Thannks Grampa Udon!

and the winner is....

Nana Pam (Eric's mom) is the first to donate to the silent auction!

If you are going to be interested in bidding on her items they are:

a Pasta Dinner for 2 basket - everything you need for a pasta dinner for teo, including sparkling grape juice, goblets, bowels, pasta sauce and a box of pasta

scrapbooking basket - a creative memories basket of items including a small scrapbook and kit which includes the paper, stickers, pens and tips to make a cute and creative scrapbook

sooo.... whose next? remember, anything is able to be donated and I will even write your bids in!

new things for us!

Well we are having a good time here in Colorado! Today we started with an eventful morning, there was a pretty serious and loud storm that came through last night, scaring the horses. Rosie, a yearling foal spooked herself and sliced up her back left leg pretty good right on the inside of the hock - this scared Ron because she is a racehorse prospect. So, Ron, Eric and myself took off to the vet where Shawn Basinger is a vet and the vet who worked on Rosie his name is Shawn Bought and he is a pretty nice guy. He did a good job sewing up Rosie today.

After we finished hauling Rosie into the vet we came back to Nana and Papa Ron's house and hung out here. Oh, and Nana babysat Case while we were gone to the vet. We visited the chickens, the horses - Case got to sit up on Snipper (the horse I one day hope to own for Case) and he petted Sis and Ace. we also visited the sheep and the dogs too.

This afternoon we went into the Greeley Stampede and went to the "Worlds Largest 4th of July Rodeo" - to be honest, I wasn't impressed. I have been to alot of rodeos, both as a competitor and as a spectator... Eric has never rodeoed and he even said that he would have entered if he knew the competition was going to be so lack. But, overall it was a goodtime. We ended the night with a funnel cake, which I have never eaten before. Quite yummy, but not a snack to eat all the time!

Case has experienced many new things this week so far:

- traveled 14 hours (and did pretty good too!)
- been to New Mexico, Colorado
- tried a bite of funnel cake
- been to the Greeley Stampede (he has been to a few rodeos before)

projects to make for silent auction

For the past 2 years we have put on an FFA silent auction at our fair in September. These are some ideas of things that we would like in our silent auction this year. Maybe you could donate them!

fire pit/grill made out of 24" plow disc

ripper

feeder

outdoor umbrella stand

sherpards hook - hummingbird feeder

fire pit made out of washing machine tub

bench

fire pit

rolling anvil stand

magazine rack combo toilet paper holder

fireplace doors

BBQ grill

practice your TIG skills and make a bi-plane!

rack

scrap dog

cut outs

super cool scrap tractor

These are projects that would be great sellers in the silent auction. You should make something! Help us raise money for Nationals! If you don't want to make anything, then get things donated!

Navajo Music

so you are probably wondering why iadded " Jesus Loves Me" in Navajo to the bottom of our blog. Well, my mom asked me today to make a blog for their summer mission team that will be going to ManyFarms, AZ which is on the Navajo Reservation for a mission trip over labor day weekend. I embeded some Navajo music into that blog and really liked the Jesus Loves Me song, as the lyrics are in both Navajo and English, but it is sung in Navajo. It sounds beautiful to me.

if you want to check out the blog, click on the link below:

http://missiontrippers.blogspot.com

and as you are ooooing and ahhing over how cool it is, remember, I made it! woo-hoo!!

remember to say a prayer for those who go on missions!

Yummy recipe!

Fat Free Zucchini Bread

1 cup water
4 cups bread flour
1 tbspn. brown sugar (I used organic raw sugar)
2 tspns. salt
1 tspn. ground cinnamon
1/2 tspn. ground cloves
1/2 cup coarsely grated zucchini
3 tspns. active dry yeast

Place all ingredients into the pan in the order suggested by the bread machine manufacturer and add zucchini with dry ingredients; select basic white bread setting and start. Makes a 2 lb. loaf.

SUPER DELISH! You all should try it!