Dexter with his buddy, Memphis

flowers from Lisa. She’s so thoughtful.

Gunnison being so cute

These boys nerding-out over their new helicopter.

Some weeks it feels like I live in this shirt.

her legs are SO long

Ceiling at the Slopeside Lodge at Powerderhorn Ski Resort. We got to stay a couple days up there while Seth filmed a promotional video for the lodge. It was really rough.

voted

woke up looking like this

dexter snuggled in

proud

Amy had baby #3!

Eden is the best babysitter

late night making donation boxes for the clinic

Main Street all twinkly

Excited to carry LGH at Tangle

Josh playing legos with the children

new loveseat that matches my couch perfectly

Bin makes the best Chai Lattes (along with everything else… my fav)

Honor is learning to tie flies.

This little guy was just hanging out on Main Street the other day.

I hand painted the windows for the church’s new coffee shop.

Knitting with roving

White Beech Mushrooms

14 quarts of salsa canned!

longest my hair has ever been

little sweater for a sample at Tangle

look who says “al” now

Eden and her BFF playing mash while we were out to lunch after church

I peel the breading off my fried zucchini

fiestaware!

glitter pumpkins!

tree in front of my house

Rickelle and I had to get the most ghetto drinks for our badminton tournament. Current tournament score is me 4, Kel 3.

The kids carved pumpkins with my mom before our pumpkin carving party.

For the first time we had to turn patients away at the clinic.

carmel and pecans

helped plan 5 parties in 4 days and this was the list for one of the days

I need giant hamster balls in my backyard as a parenting technique

no bangs

my friend Dane and I switched hand-knit sweaters

My set of Bronco’s hats. It’s been fun knitting these during games and I’m excited to be selling the pattern on Tangle’s website.

My new shiny pants

Getting ready to run the clinic.

I live just 10 minutes from the Colorado National Monument. It was beautiful in the rain.

Honor turned 9.

And Dexter turned 3.

And I learned how to play a G chord.

We watched the Bronco’s game in the garage.

And it was super fun.

Brian and I ran over to Denver to grab some stuff at Ikea and the Apple store for the church.

Our local fish taco restaurant moved to Main Street and I’m SO happy about it.

Mumford lyrics that I’ve clinged to over the past few years.

The backyard on a cloudy morning

We’ve started having epic night-time badminton tournaments. Whenever Carrie is in town, she whips all of us.

When we were in Wyoming visiting my Grandma, we had an huge family game of Hand and Foot.

Me and my hipster cousin

living room

The kids started school. Eden is in 5th and Honor is in 3rd. Last year of taking them both to elementary school. crazy.

naughty

The smoke from that Montana fire made for some crazy, pink sunsets.

My friend Dane bought a house. We will spend a lot of time sitting on this porch I think.

Three teeth in the last few weeks.

Workin on a set of patterns for Broncos hats.

Dexter loves Eden’s pet rat.

Coming up with some fun promo items for the clinic.

only at Walmart

Peach cobbler is one of the best things about summer

Apparently he’s growing out his hair.

A stormy morning at the Mesa County Fair. I got to judge the “heritage arts” for the 4h kids. It was so fun and makes me feel proud to see a younger generation knitting and quilting.

Gunnison eating his first Olathe Sweet Corn.

Sometimes I get so busy that I drive through the car wash so I can return a few emails.

Workin on a giant zig zag quilt at Tangle.

um, really, this is the name of these new ice cream bars?

GJ Rockies game!

I was on Gunni duty. This kid just cracks me up!

Searching for the perfect Bronco’s color yarn.

homemade icecream sandwiches rolled in chopped hazelnuts

Got to work on my handwriting a little bit for a project for a video shoot. fun fun.

Dropped my friend Megan off at the airport in Denver and I got this quick shot from the car of the rainbow over the plains of Denver.

So proud of Meg for moving to Africa for seven months to work for Light Gives Heat.

Got to see the twinzies real quick while I was in Denver. Can’t believe how big they’ve gotten.

Gunnison was dedicated at church last week. Such a special time for Rickelle and Caleb. I’m so thankful to get to be in their lives and to get to know Gunnison.

Tangle celebrated our 6th birthday and had our big sale last Saturday. So proud to have run a successful business for SIX years! Gosh, I can’t believe it’s been so long!

Thai iced tea w/ the kids in the background.

My kind of fortune.

I searched the town high and low to find giant pixie sticks. They make perfect straws for Beergaritas!!

Sometimes you know your friends love you when they let you drink out of their very special Thor cup.

No comment.

Lincoln Park at Magic Hour

Sometimes you have to google things…

Lake Day! Photo courtesy Lisa.

Rickelle’s cat walked by a candle and caught his tail on fire. Luckily it just singed his hair and he didn’t get hurt.

Colorad wild fire!

Toth Ranch. I spent 4 days with the girls up here at a retreat and it was SO, SO AMAZING. Exactly what we all needed and more.

Carrie saved this baby bird from the cat and was nursing it back to health. Then the cat got it anyway and everyone was mad.

Scones the kids and I made Carrie for her birthday

Article in the local paper about the Good Samaritan Clinic finding a new home

My friend Amy made this amazing teepee for her daughter’s birthday out of fabric we sell at Tangle.

Gasp, Honor’s room, clean!

excited for this to come to Main Street

Carrie trying out her new birthday present.

Fruit Snacks must be enjoyed in Rainbow-color-order.

beergaritas…mmm…

Basically all the pictures of me are ones I take of myself.

At our local Farmers Market on Main Street you can get these amazing roasted green chile wraps… oh, so good.

Breakfast Tacos

I rode the bus with my friend Brian the other day to see what it was like. In the 12 years that we’ve had public transportation, I’ve never tried it. Because many of our patients at the clinic will be riding the bus, we wanted to see what the trip to our clinic would be like for them on the bus. It took us 1.5hrs to ride what took 12min in a car.

Bus transfer tickets

Gunnison hanging out at Tangle

This soda is amazing. 60 calories, 3 ingredients. yum.

Giant zig zag quilt I’m working on

Grilled artichokes with queso fresco (one of the only cheeses I can eat sans migraine.) Quarter and boil the artichokes until tender. Drizzle with olive oil, top with cheese. Grill til the artichokes are a little crispy on the outside and the cheese is melted.

Watching the eclipse on my neighbors roof.

It’s Carne Asada season… mmm….

Tangle

baby sweater that I knit for my friend and trainer, Janae.

Honor’s lego robot

another pic of Gertrude

giant batch of granola

last month’s pattern of the month for Tangle

being silly with Honor

science fair

science fair

some light evening reading

baby peaches on my tree in need of thinning

Eden and her buddies about to run a 5k

Carrie and I turned a terrible horrible pile of scrap wood into this. I ran the skill saw and she stacked. What a team we make.

new flowers cheering up the backyard

Carrie, wearing my glasses, pretending to be a hipster.

Gunnison scooting backwards

I asked Siri to remind me to go get Honor…

This was my very first cell phone. My mom has it at her house for the kids to play with.

Just, you know, hiking on a Tuesday night. What a place we live in…

I got a cool letter from our Senator about the helmet liner project we do at Tangle. We’ve sent out almost 800 so far.

Experimenting with roasting Peeps. I burned myself pretty badly on the melted sugar, but roasted Peeps are amazing. The sugar coating gets all crispy and delicious.

Eden in the hospital waiting to get staples in her head. She and Honor got in a fight involving Honor getting kicked in the eye and Eden getting a metal water bottle thrown at her head. The wound was really, really gushy so Carrie drove us to the ER while I applied pressure to Eden’s head. 3 hours later, she got two staples and we got to go home.

I had the brilliant idea of baking Cadbury Eggs into cupcakes. I froze them solid before dropping them into the batter, but they still melted too much. Maybe next year I’ll just hollow out the middle of an already baked cupcake and drop one in.

Yesterday we found this ginormous Black Widow spider hanging out in the back yard.

Me at my second Fly Fishing lesson. I now know how to cast and roll cast!