::Carbondale, Colorado:: Where the sun keeps on shining & the trails keep on beckoning! We have found our “Forever Home” right inside Carbondale Proper. We can bike, walk, rip-stick, skate board, run, skip & hop to any place in town. We have gone from 2 Yurts in remote Alaska to a Straw Bale home in a small town located in the Rocky Mountains.
Our life is different from the one we had in Alaska, but we are still the same family taking on new adventures...Life continues to be good to us! Please come check out this place we call our FOREVER HOME!
tiff January 17th, 2012
a great day of snow…a great day of skiing at highlands…a great day in aspen with my sweet man…not to be greedy but i have boys’ that continue to dream in white snowflakes…more to come towards the end of the week!
tiff January 15th, 2012
This is the website: Discovery Bottles go check it out. My only suggestion is to use white long grain rice…as it is more vibrant & fun…my yellow bottle is white long grain rice…the other bottles were made with brown rice. I know that my kindergarten kiddo’s are going to love shaking these bottles to find the words. I have made word sheets, so that the kiddo’s can dauber the words they find and then put lines below to practice writing them for a challenge.
Find documents for words to go in the bottles and students sheet here:
sight words for bottles blue & red
sight words for bottles green & yellow
sight words for student sheet blue & red
sight words for student sheet green & yellow
this is my first time linking to my google .docs feeling a wee bit cool. i do hope some of you find them useful!
tiff January 12th, 2012
rick is lovingly known as uncle gumbo…
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it all started Christmas 2010 during some silly late night dinner table talk…rick was trying to get “sweetness” {aka hudson} to say gumbo…why gumbo nobody knows other than the complete silliness that comes with some adult beverages…whenever rick would say gumbo…’sweetness’ would giggle…you know that cute 6 month old giggle…you know the giggle that is so contagious that we are all giggling along with the 6 month old. and so the name was set for rick…you will now be called,
the name is very endearing…don’t ya think? and so with the introduction to rick’s new name i give you this sweet link to “sweetness” wishing uncle gumbo a happy birthday…listen carefully…i promise you will hear gumbo…and the jibber jabber has to be the cutest thing ever…it makes me wish we had more short clips of our boys’…or for that matter any short clips…smiles!
tiff January 9th, 2012
i am so lucky to be with this man every day…it DOESN’T really matter where we are…
i really do LOVE being with him wherever we are and whatever we are doing!!!
this year we have had a few nights of celebrating rick’s birthday…rick and i went out to Phat Thai on Saturday night with our good friends, The Fridays’{the boys’ were at a sleepover}, then last night we had yummy flank steak, potatoes & salad…and tonight we had almost homemade pizza{cheated with Boboli crust}. We topped it off with a candle in one of Rick’s favorite candies, Peppermint Patty. He wanted to share it with us…so he split it 4 ways…what a guy! He has a shopping spree at Lowes to buy a router…which he has been wanting for quite some time.
...Click the above photo to see our 2006-2008 Yurts N Dogs Website in Willow, Alaska...
