New Post...Finally!

Well it has been almost 6 weeks since the last post

I cannot believe how the time has gone by this summer, a lot of activities and crazy schedules

Right after the 4th of July Daniel and I went out with a total of 10 adults and 20 scouts to Colorado for summer camp.  Out of that group of 30,  3 adults (which included me) and 7 of the older scouts went on a high adventure and backpacked, hiked, camped for five days in the Rawah Wilderness Area next to the Roosevelt National forest just north of Estes park about an hour and Northwest of For Collins.  We took everything we needed (food, cooking, tents, etc.) to survive for 5 days of hiking.

We did camp above the timberline at 11,300 feet one night

here are some pictures

The above picture is Twin Crater Lake all snow melt fed, when the kids skipped snowballs out into the water the snowballs just floated away and did not melt.

This is blue lake at 11,100 feet we saw two elk and a moose walk by our campsite in the morning

we hiked and saw mountains up close and personal

It was a lot of fun.

The kids did well at the County Fair this year and Philomena will get to present her project at the State Fair this year. She gets to present on August 19 2010, so we will be at the State Fair on August 19, 2010

I have to work the State Fair on the last day August 22, 2010

Sarah did an excellent performance in her community play in Cedar Falls it was Joseph and the technicolor dream coat.  The signing camels were funny

the grass just keeps growing

It has been very hot lately, but finally we did have a small break in the heat and humidity

School is just around the corner hard to believe August is finally here.

we went down to Burlington on July 23, 2010 for Caroline's class reunion,

We are filling up on Harrington's sweet corn, they are out of Nashua IA

Some girl hit our car when Caroline went down to see Sarah's Play, it damaged the back bumper, she was pulling out of a parking spot and clipped our back bumper with her front bumper. It was our trailblazer

the Trailblazer will go in to get fixed in about a week

that is about it, so hopefully we will get into a pattern and post more regularly now

posted by Randy