Technology sucks

Well I guess not always, but when it doesn't work properly, it sucks. On top of having to get a new computer we have to get a new external hard drive and try to get everything off of our old one. Kelsey dropped our external hard drive on Saturday which had about everything on it for the last 5 years of our lives. So just GREAT! Kids are great, kids are great, kids are great..... grrr.

Anyway on a high note. I want to share some cool pictures from a hike we went on a while ago. It's called Wood's Quarry down in Boulder. It has the best view I think I have ever seen.

So this is just some of the view. You could see all the way to Fort Collins and Downtown Denver. You could also see DIA!


At the top there were these cool chairs made out of stones, they were actually pretty comfy. If you got there early enough you would have a spectacular show of the sun rise.

This was Matt's "first hike". We don't judge, he's from Minnesota.

Kelsey thought it was pretty fun.

Ahh Summer.... more to come

So there is a whole bunch of pictures.... but they are fun! They are mixed up because I am too lazy to organize them! I am intending on putting the rest of them on Facebook.
On the hike, which was longer than intended... I fell in the snow. Yes, the SNOW! It is summer, but apparently not in Wyoming!

On the hike just catching our breath and looking at our accomplishment, so far, still about a mile to the top.

Kelsey loved the peas in Grandma's garden. She was calling them candy.

Wiggle Cars.... Sterling, Quinn's nephew, had so much fun on them. Quinn had fun on them too. As you can see.

Sterling liked to bump into people.

Kory was sleeping then he cuddled up with the laptop case. He was tired, really tired.

Jaymie, Jasmene's youngest. She is a CHUNK!

Jaymie and Jasmene swimming around. Jaymie was awake and smiling at her mom, but you can't see that.

Dayna is so big! She tried single skiing and wakeboarding. She was a pro wakeboarder.

Benjamin trying the single ski. He did so great. He also jumped off a 25 foot cliff all by himself, with a little bribe from his father.

Kelsey fell alseep on the boat, sitting up in her life jacket.

Another shot of Jaymie, what a chunk. Kory was making her do pull ups.

The best blog ever!

So I just thought I would post this, since I spend most of my day entertaining a 1 1/2 year old. I get a kick out of things like this....

cakewrecks.blogspot.com

It is awesome, Quinn and I just spent about 2 hours looking at all the cakes. I think we will stick to making our own.

Good Night!

The depressing search for a place to call home...

So many of you might know we have been searching for a house for a while now. It is very depressing, I guess it would be more fun, if we had a half million dollar budget, but we don't. We have looked at about 10 homes all together, and well lets just say that the amount of work that needs to be done in order to get the homes livable is WAY TOO much. If there is someone that wants to give us a half a million dollars I will take it and put it to good use! I promise!

Is there a way to make this more fun?


And on another note, does this always happen??

Everything is going great! We have started to build our savings again after Quinn broke his foot. The credit card bills are getting smaller and everything is dandy. Then our computer, which has been good for about 5 years now, pooped out. The screen just stopped working. We had our home teacher look at it, because he is good with computers and works with them all day, anyway, it is not salvageable, well not worth it anyway. So yet again. Once on top, back on the bottom. I guess that is one way to stay humble.
So now we have to decide what is the best plan of action. Get a new computer or try and survive with just the computers at the Library, for about a year. Oh, we also have the Internet on our Wii. I don't think I could handle either of those options! Right now Quinn has a computer from work which has been a life saver. We are going to go searching for the best option tomorrow before I leave town for 3 weeks!

I hate having responsibility.