Still in santa Fe

My boys..but you are meant to be looking at the huge planters...I want some that size!

My boys..

isn't this brass works beuatiful

This is the boys and i helping the boys and girls of days past play pulling..

We had fun going around the Capitol, the boys run off some energy..Allan and I did not need too as we had gotten up early and run 3 miles that day already. So meandering around the building was fine for us. I of course got my Capitol building Christmas decoration, so my Texas tree on the decking this Christmas will have more decorations...and of course I am hoping I will have the shot gun cartridge lights done as well. Only been waiting 2 years. I have the cartridges. I have the lights, now I need allan to make them work. I of course could buy them, but this seemed more sensible to make them. I am prodding him along now so i might have them who knows

Santa Fe part of the trip

These are some pictures of the Capitol building, it was round and looked very beautiful. the amount of artwork inside was lovely to see, well maybe not for the younger two, but Allan and i enjoyed it.

We have been on a road trip

Hello all, we have been away on a  roadtrip again. This time we drove to Salt Lake city, in Utah. The mileage is about 1500 miles each way, and getting here we did two 12 hour days, driving to Santa Fe, in New Mexico the first day and all the way to SLC the next. i leave to get us home today, but without Allan as he has to fly on business to the South of France. So the boys and I are driving home over 3 days, today i will drive to Denver and Monday to Amarillo and then home to Jack and the pets on Tuesday. One reason, and the main reason we are going home that route is because I will cross the Rockies and Alex is desperate for us to do that. He has been since we got here, and although he has ahd sightings of them...to him the Rockies and Colorado are one and  the same. So we will have three days of 500 miles a day, about 8 hour drivings.
We are as you know trying to visit all 50 States and visit there Capitol buildings, so Santa Fe is the capital of NM, and SLC is the capital of UT and Denver is the capital of CO, so this trip we have ticked off ( and in America you do not tick, you check) ..well by mid-morning Monday we will, as we will have walked around the Capitol.

What have we been doing here in UT ..well I have been at the Stampin'Up convention and Allan and the boys have been sight seeing. So i will blog smaller posts with photo's now so you can see some of the things we have all been doing. But the high light, and I think I can say for all of us, was that I won he  Stampin' Up competition to have my craft room made over by Stampin' Up co-founder and CEO Shelli Gardner with her two daughters. I do not have the full details yet, but I will keep you all in the loop about this amazing prize.

We are heating up nicely

The weather man warned us yesterday that we have a cold front coming in on Thursday morning and it is going to drop our highs to 91f.. How will we cope, better get the jerseys out:-)








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Allan is responding

So now I know he gets a message when I post.. He is meant to be working!!! But we are grateful for the pictures





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Swim team is back

So we are back to that time of year, swim team meets Monday to Thursday and then there is a swim meet against another team every Saturday. Our first home meet was on Saturday, Allan was down at the pool on the Friday night and then 6am on the Saturday. The Boys went down for 7.30, early starts to try and avoid the heat of the day.

They both did very well and Ben won one of his races and volunteered to take someone else's place when they panicked about doing butterfly. Then asked, what is butterfly? After a 20 second demo out of the water , his race was called and in he went.. He did a wonderful job, we were all so proud of him, it is not an easy stroke and you would never have known he had not done it. He came second and his only comment was it was hard work! Love that boy.

Alex had a good day as well.. I do not have photos of it, will ask Allan but since I am sitting at swim practice now I will take a photo or two.


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Alex back from his school trip

Alex has been away with the school to Port Aransas, which is south of us on the gulf coast
He had a great time, went out on a boat and learnt lots about Marine life. This trip was after studying marine life for science this semester.
They stayed at the university of Texas marine division. Alex assures us the food in the Halls was brilliant.


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