Timber Frames 09

A year's worth of CAD drawings come to life...

Evan's Xmas List

Dear Santa,

How are all of your reindeers? I got a new kitten. I went to Mexico. I am being nice to my sister. I’ve been nice to my friend Katie. Now I will do the things that I want for Christmas:
- Lego castle
- race car track
- ramp and two motorcycles
- door, roof, and walls for my timber frame
- real dolphin
- rubber toys for my dolphin
- Star Wars Lego set
- metal pretend rifle
- rubber band bullets
- bike shorts

Love,
Evan

Maya's Xmas List

Dear Santa,
How are you doing? How is your home? How is your wife, Santa? My home is very good cause I have a kitten that is cute. I hope your home is doing good. I have been behaving good. I have been feeding my cat. I have helped my brother. I have been nice to my neighbors. I have been nice to my mom and dad. Here is my list of things I would like for Christmas:
- merman
- toy for my cat
- more necklaces for me
- polar bear stuff for learning (books and movies)
- saddle for horse riding
- bracelets
- ankle bracelet
- a pink Phillies jersey
- camera
- horse costume
- pretend reins for horse riding
- bug stuff for discovering (books and movies)
- hair stuff (barrettes and ponytail holders)
- stuffed animal horse, grown up unicorn, and Pegasus
- wedding Barbie
- dolphin toy

Love,
Maya

Thanksgiving in Mexico

We traveled to Puerto Penasco, Mexico for the week prior to Thanksgiving with our neighbors, Dave and Renee. The temperature was in the 70s and the water just warm enough for a little playing (although I thought it was fine and snorkeled a ton).

Had an early celebration for Evan's 5th birthday beating on a Spiderman pinata and eating a fresh shrimp feast.





Ideal travelling for us includes simple accomodations. So we stayed in the cheapest motel we could find, and spent all our time on the beach that was just steps out our door.



Evan's highlights included beating the pinata and a hole we dug in the beach; perfect for hours of jumping fun.





Maya's highlights included buying a dress and when she found a "dried up seahorse" while we were swimming; she grabbed it to show me and turns out it was alive. Oh the screaming that its wiggling provoked!

Fall Update...

a new wine rack for the adults...







a new kitten, Thunder, for Maya and she took voice lessons this fall...






first day of school: Maya's in 2nd grade and Evan's in his last year of preschool...





Evan's first soccer season where he is a natural defensive player protecting the goal.

Halloween

In the great tradition of super heroes, you can never tell an identity when they are wearing glasses.




We had a cajun boil at Cookie and Graham's house and then headed out with Spiderman and Tinker Bell.

Durango & Silverton RR

In September, Grandpa Denny let the kids and Doug skip school and work so we could ride the narrow gauge rail road from Durango to Silverton. The tracks go far back in the San Juan mountains along the path of the Animas River.


The crew: one of the rare moments Evan was awake!










Amazing views and lots of soot and ash for souvenirs.





Maya was cute enough to get on the train, but we had to lay out some bribes to get the kid in the KU (yuck) shirt on the train.