First snow of 2008

It snowed all day and now it is sticking to the roads.

First real snow fall of the Season 2008

It was only about 4 inches but the pictures make a
good black and white study.... looks like time to
take down the fall flowers. It did not even stick
to the roads just made them very slick.

Thanksgiving at the Cole's

The following are pictures of Thanksgiving at the Cole's, we start with Jerry the cut-up, then Nancy giving instructions, Barb and Matthew, Michael, The Wong's and Kara, A wonderful concert from Isabelle, Rachael, Nadine Wong, Rachael and Cosette making faces during Isabelle's solo which was to good to miss, Then on to Nancy's annual decorate the gingerbread houses, then the adults played domino's, Cora and Kammi were showing Mike and Sara how the do their karate moves.... yes Sara and Mike made a gingerbread house too.

Replacement wheels

Finally found a replacement for the GMC it is a Chevrolet Trail Duster

The color is Moondust (a light blue silver )

Trip to Casa Bonita

When Leif Heggem with daughter Amanda and son Erik came to visit the Howell family they all decided to go to Casa Bonita. For over 30 years Casa Bonita has been a Denver attraction for Mexican dining and entertainment ( western shoot outs, cliff diving and Kara's favorite gorilla). Here some of the pictures. Kara has pictures of their trip to the Butterfly pav. and the airplane museum.








Fountain in front



Caedmon and Cozette ready to race









at the table










Watching Bad Bart



Headed for Jail

Lief pushing ore cart

Howells by the pool

Cozette with a smile

Actually Kammie wanted a picture in the ore cart
but every one else tried to get in the picture.

Remember them

Today we discovered we were low on some items that required a trip to Sam's. Now most of you know what it is like to go there on a busy day but we needed some supplies so we went anyway.

Wel-l-l-l-l-l-l as if planned the first people we ran into that we knew was Phil and Lynne Pickett and Matti...... then who walks by but Donni then here comes Rick Dolfinger.

So-o-o-o for the next half to 3/4 hours we stood and talked about all of the various things the families were doing. Sean is a sophomore (and over 6' tall) , Lauren is a junior, Kati is (not sure) Matti is in 6th grade. Allison then bring up the last of the Pickets.

It was a good time and then the check-out was really fast, like a walk through in less than 2 minutes.

Will have to plan another reunion in 09 with all the daycare clan.

Art lessons with the Howell crew

Cora is creating a wind circle drawing using spokes to connect the inner and outer circles created using the blue roll of tape as a guide. Cora is very creative with colors and likes to make complete pictures.
















Kammi is using a protractor to create her wind circle with ovals between the inner and outer circles. She learned how to intercect at 90 degrees and how to mark off each 10 degrees.
















Caedmon "the speedy one" Started with basic instructions and completed the wind circle and colored it completely as instructed, he was the first one done. Even putting on wind lines to show movement. He added a ground line to anchor the drawing and even included a sun to shine on his picture.

All three did a great job.

The four Peterson children

Gay, Carla, Frank and Robyn (the line up)

Can you guess which 2 are seven years apart?

How many years total ----- 255

If one was 90 and the others less (with a 5 year gap)

How old were the other two?

1. LaVois on Right

2. Margaret

3 Lynn

It was a great party with lots of food.

It has been totaled

On way to the 255 year birthday party we hit ice on the road then hit the median 3 times. Once on the Left front then a 360 spin and head on and then another spin to hit the left rear corner.

We got the call this morning and the insurance did total the unit.

Robyn and I are still on lots of pain reducers. (only OTC at this time)

We only salvaged the license plates and the dash cover.

Now on to the shopping phase of the process.

Learning to go Solo - well almost

All four of Kara's kids took turns learning to set

on Misae without someone else on the horse with them.

Kammi the first time in the small saddle with

stirups set just for her and Cora.

Cora at the start of her firsy solo

on the horse.

CJ still needs to have longer legs
for the little saddle.



















Cozette "Miss wiggle butt" could not sit still or stay

centered so Kara and Grandma (one on each side)

got her about 20 feet then she wanted OFF NOW.