Kermit Road-kill

Well, this is a classic Kermit moment! Just thought I would share. Also here is a great pic of Aaron and the team coming around the "scary" corner right after the starting shoot... most people have their brakes on or are falling, lol... Aaron got 1st in 6 dog purebred. Just for fun I am posting my pic from a few years back on that same corner, we are running the same wheel dogs, they are still just as crazy!

Redstone Dogsled Race Weekend!

I made it for just a few hours at the end of the race on Saturday... Charlie walked Cole and Vodka up a nearby road for about an hour and I took some pics (Aaron is keeping Kermit for me for awhile still... he came in first in both of his races!)... the pics are of our dogs, camera went on the fritz and kept shutting off so I couldn't take very many. One pic is of Jr. (black and white) and Kermit (white) after the race, one is of Aaron and the team at the finish, one is of them getting ready to take off and one is Vodka and Cole crashed on the couch... Vodka is learning to tollerate the "wanna-be husky", lol!
Doing good, getting bigger and getting lots of kicks and punches!

Finally a Preggers Pic!!

Yes, here it is... ME pregnant! My Grandmother made me the dress and I had a co-worker shoot it for me really quick at lunch, sorry for the blurr, florescent lights. Anyway, David is very squirmy now as he is running out of room inside me... only 2 1/2 more months to go till I get to meet the little guy that has only just begun living off me, lol! I am in my third trimester and am seeing the midwives every two weeks until I am 36 weeks, then I go every week. His little feet are almost always crammed up under my ribs on the right side now. So mostly I get punches in my lower tummy and lots of squirms and movement. Sleeping has just gotten really difficult and I guess it only gets worse... ok, I want him out now, lol... I know, just wait til I am a month away, right?
My place is on the market and should go pretty quickly. We have another showing tomorrow and for the price in the area it is a great buy, I wouldn't be selling except both Charlie and I LOVE the Redstone area and want David to grow up there, not that it is all that far away, and I am sure he will be in Aspen playing on the slopes as he grows up.
Well, Vodka and Cole both got baths this weekend, took both Charlie and me to do it as he broke his finger and I can't lift, so with a team effort and using the bath at the pet store they look and smell pretty! They actually seemed to enjoy themselves, they LOVE the pet store.
Well, back to work!

More Snow!

Boy, we got some good snow, and freezing temps to make sure it stays for awhile (good news for the Redstone Dogsled race in a week), it got to around -16 degrees! It was so cold the machines at the excavation site where Charlie is working would not move! He got two days off :) He needed it as he broke his finger and what a help those days were for him. Here are some pictures from the "snow days", most are from my house and street, one is the view out of my office of the parking lot and street. Oh, and I had to include the one of Vodka with her new collar (xmas gift from me) and "spoiled" tag (xmas gift from my Aunt Jackie's dogs)... Hope all is well with everyone!

No pregnant pics yet... sorry

Well, I still don't have any pics to share... but I plan on having some taken by someone shortly... I know a lot of you want to see my big tummy... it will only get bigger, I promise! So until then, here are a few pictures from our Wyoming Christmas. The first is Charlies family saying goodbye as we are leaving, boy is Skylar getting big! The second is the view from the room we stay in, that is Charlie, and his parents taking a snowshoe walk with the dogs.

Colorado Winter

This is a picture for Kelli and her family... yes there is snow, no we didn't have the same blizzard as Denver... poor people got trapped in their houses, and more snow is coming! This is what my yard looked like a few days after we spoke. Cole had a great time this weekend packing all the powder down in the yard... she loves the snow!

In Loving Memory...

Duane "Dewey" Garringer
As some of you know I received some terrible news last week, my Father died on Christmas morning. Unfortunately we had been estranged for some time, though I had in the past tried to keep in touch, but due to frequent moves and life in general, we lost touch. Recently I reconnected with my cousin and step sister and through them hope that my love and good wishes made it to him in time. I don't really know what to say here, I just have so many thoughts and regrets that I need to get them off my chest. I miss him terribly and have all my life. I wish now more than ever that I had been more proactive in getting back in touch, but we think we have all the time in the world. Now more than ever I was excited to reconnect as I wanted my son to meet and know his grandfather and for me to get to know him again also. Now that will never happen. All I can hope for is some photos and momentos to remember him by, as well as stories told by my family that was around him daily. They have been so loving and supportive and understanding of the whole situation.
It is hard being a child of a divorce to deal with all the hurt and anger that a divorce brings. I can't blame my Mom or Dad, they did what they did and it is over. I guess I can't even blame myself as both of us are guilty of being somewhat lazy.... or at least procrastinators.... and did nothing to change things... I guess once I got so far away that part of my life seemed so distant. I know this has taught me a valuable lesson about living every day like it is my last. And I fully intend to make sure my son knows how much I love him and that I am there for him when he needs me, growing up and later in life. I only wish he could have met his grandfather and am thankful that so many others have had him in their lives and can tell me and David all about him, maybe I can still be close to him in some way.
I feel like he was stolen from me not once, but twice now and I just hope that everyone who is lucky enough to have had him in their lives realize just how lucky they are. Both me and my brother did without, never asked him for anything, and missed out on having a wonderful man in our lives daily. It saddens me to think maybe I could have changed that, though nothing could change when he died, David will never meet him, but I could at least be the one to pass on his love and memories first hand.
I do have some of my own memories, I can remember the song we used to sing together, the sound of his voice, his face, the way his lips were always wet when he kissed me and how wonderful it felt to know he loved me.
I love you dad, and miss you always.