A beautiful Sunrise

This is what Caylee and I enjoyed yesterday!

Thanksgiving at Celeste's house

 Notice the "photo bomber" in the background!  Too funny!

 I need to get skinny! (After I eat the pies)

 Don enjoying his pieces of pie.

 I love this picture.

 Celeste cooked the turkey in her roaster.  It was so moist and delicious.  It pretty much fell off the bones so Rod and I helped it a little bit.

 Caylee enjoying a moment with Brandon.

 Drake feeding Caleb pie.  I am glad Aiden was in the background in this picture even though he is blurry.  All the pictures I had of him are blurry because he is in constant motion.

 An engaging philosophical discussion?

 I took a sliver of each kind of pie except for the oreo pie.  So we had strawberry rubarb, pear cream, berry, pumpkin, apple, chocolate cream pie, banana cream pie and coconut cream pie.  My favorite ended up being coconut cream pie but it was hard to pick a favorite because they were all so delicious.  Just in case you are wondering.  I did not end up eating this whole plate, I just sampled then pitched the plate.

 Caylee is sampling the oreo cream pie which she made!

Caleb thoroughly enjoying his Thanksgiving Turkey Cookie.  Yum Yum!

Welcoming Aubrey into the world

 Nov 16th, Cassy the day before she delivered Aubrey

 On Thursday, while Cassy and Taylor were at the hospital, Jackson and I played at the park.

 Jackson "sleeping".

 Jackson and I built towers so he could knock them down.

 Taylor and Jackson at the hospital.

 Aubrey just hours old

 Jackson loved the quilts I made for him and Aubrey.

 We went to McD's one night.  Wearing his happy meal container on his head, 

Jackson reminded me of previous antics performed by a young Cassy.

 A new Christmas tree.

Beautiful Fall Colors

I love this time of year.  I love looking at all of the different colors of the leaves.  I am posting some pictures of trees right around my house.  I get to look at these every day as I come and go!

Caylee on her first day of fourth grade.

I know this is a couple of weeks late but better late than never.  Caylee is in Mrs Garbee's 4th grade class.    She generally walks to school with the neighbors and their mom, which is nice for me! Sometimes they ride bikes the half mile to school.  It is great going to school since it is all down hill.  Coming home is another story.  Rod and I attended "Back to School Night" yesterday.  We were informed 4th graders are intermediary students now and they have much higher expectations for the students.  I think Caylee is starting to feel that.

Horse back riding in Estes Park

 Callie found a groupon for a two hour horse back riding trip in Estes Park.  We thought that sounded fun so headed to Estes with Rod on Saturday morning.  We dropped Rod off at the golf course around 7:30 am.  Our reservation for the horses wasn't until 10 a.m. so we had breakfast at Mickey D's, wandered around the Stanley Hotel, cruised through the Christmas shop, explored in Estes and finally arrived at the Elk Horn Lodge to meet our horses.  Cami rode Cheyenne who generally behaved.  Caylee rode Moccasin (pictured above)  who knew he was bigger than Caylee and did what he wanted until the guide got to him.  She tied the rope much tighter so he could no longer reach his muzzle to the ground to munch his way down the trail.

I rode Poncho who is sometimes called "Oscar" for Sesame Street's "Oscar the Grouch".  He used to be top horse but now has been demoted to the number three spot.  He is not to happy about that.  He spent much of his time marching along with his ears back and if another horse bum got too close to him, he would take a bite!  He was a bit naughty.  When I would pat his neck and tell him he was a "good boy", his ears would go up for a little while.  I can't remember Callie's horse's name.  I will just call him "Pokey" because he certainly was.  He only had one speed and it was slow except for the time he saw a short cut back to the ranch and tried to take it!  Fun day!