This week my family and I were decorating the house getting it ready for Christmas, and my job was to put the star on top of the tree and to put together the mechanical "Train" that goes under the tree. So first I tried it out, and it turned out great, but then slowly it went down hill. A piece came off the I could not put it back so I asked my dad if he could fix it but he …
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[caption id="attachment_143" align="alignright" width="233"] Presley, Brandon, EV and Danny[/caption] Almost two complete years of being in Colorado and I still don't get the weather. It still looks like summer from my window: sunny, green and blue sky, but you need a proper jacket, hat and sometimes gloves when you go outside. The central heating that everyone has is so different from my Chile; it makes it even more challenging. It's like 28 C degrees permanently inside of the house, so …
With a busy week behind us we are pleased to announce that we a have a new member to our family. It started with a photo on the website NextDoor. You need to check out that website for your neighborhood. On this day a photo of a kitten showed up. [caption id="attachment_36" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Toby on the website Nextdoor[/caption] My wife showed me this adorable little blurry photo and said, "Would you like to adopt a kitten?" I did not …
It is the middle of the summer and the kids are bored. How they are bored I don't know. They have toys, video games and lots of friends. It is their first summer vacation in the US, you would think that they would never get bored. So after a morning of completing their chores and 1 hour of reading and writing homework we made plans to head off to the Longmont Library. Now the library in our town is an …