Effingham Reunion

Heading down to Denver for an Effingham area reunion... We missed it last year, but committed this year. Should be good to see people. I think there are a bunch of people that live in Colorado from the Effingham area. We shall see....

Love this Concept

Eagle Community Gardens

Especially nice for those that don't have their own land to garden on. It doesn't take up a lot of space in the community, but I think it's pretty dang cool! Not sure what the fee is to have space in the garden. Rained here ALL day! Good for my garden and my freshly planted grass!

Mothers Day

It was such an awesome day yesterday for Mothers Day. I took Natalie and Cayle to Paradigms for mothers day brunch! It was fantastic. I had Cinnamon French Toast with Blueberry Cream Cheese (I don't even like French Toast) and it was fantastic! Natalie had an omelet with Feta, Spinach, and Tomotoes, with a Bellini to drink. We tried to drink the place dry of coffee I think. We were able to sit outside in the sun and just hang out and relax. It was super nice! Cayle seemed to enjoy his fried potatoes, and he offered me some of his eggs and bacon... :) Each breakfast came with a little serving of granola and yogurt. It was so much fun hanging with my beautiful wife and son in our gorgeous little mountain town.
After brunch we went to Lowe's and picked up some garden seed and spent the afternoon planting our first garden ever! Can't wait to learn new gardening skills!

Gardening has begun!

We got seeds into the ground! Early season veggies including lettuce, spinach, red, yellow, and green onions, radishes, peas, and carrots! Within 2 weeks we should see signs of them growing or not... hopefully they grow! :) Natalie and I planted in the 75 degree afternoon sunshine during mothers day while Cayle was napping. It was beautiful outside!

Tractor Time!

I love driving tractors around my parents property in IL. It is so much fun! It was so great to be able to share that experience with Cayle. It was more fun for me to drive the big tractor than it was to drive the little tractor... but Cayle seemed to enjoy both! :)

Swingin

This is a swing dad made for me when I was a youngster. Dad got it out for Cayle when we were home. He LOVED it! He spent a ton of time swinging, and just chilling in it. Laughing, sleeping, just relaxing. I think he has a new favorite reason to go back to grandma and grandpa's house!

10 years later

Never thought it would be almost a full 10 years later before we got the guy!

I got chills listening to Glenn Beck on AM radio this morning driving down to Grand Junction for a conference. He did a live radio segments a couple minutes long on sounds and interviews from the actual moment that the twin towers were hit. It brought back all the terribleness that went along with that day. There was actual transmissions from aircraft pilots demonstrating the confusion of that hour. It was crazy!

I'm sure most people probably remember exactly where they were, or what they were doing when they got the news. I don't usually remember things like that, in fact, it's one of the few things I remember so specifically. I just remember waking up in bed at college and thinking that I was having a nightmare. I went back to sleep for 5-10 minutes, before realizing that I had actually seen it on the television, and then proceeded to watch as the 2nd plane hit the tower. It was so SURREAL!

I would be naive to believe that we will never see anything like that again, but I hope for our children's sake that we never see anything like that again! The horror, the pain, the memories, the deaths...