Turkey on Back Deck

Many of you have already heard of our neighborhood turkey. This was taken by Lisa before it went bye-bye.



The video is very poor. This is my first attempt at messing with it.

A Day at the Zoo

Today Jack's preschool class had their very first field trip. Since I was off, both Lisa and I took Jack to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. We'd never been, but heard great things about it.

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It's a fantastic zoo set on the side of the mountain (not too hilly all things considered). In fact the elevation made for some interesting exhibits - like the giraffes that you could approach head-to-head and feed.

Afterward, we drove up to the Will Rogers Shrine, an historic site set on one of the mountains highest peaks (~8000 ft). It was an interesting ride up the windy roads with sheer cliff drop-offs and no guard rails.

We had a great time.

Buzzed at Royal Gorge

A couple weeks back, while Lisa's parents were in town, we went down to Canon City to ride the scenic Royal Gorge railroad. It's a full size train that runs along the banks of the Arkansas River. It culminates as it goes under the famous Royal Gorge suspension bridge.
This bridge is the highest suspension bridge in the world at just over 1000 feet - it was built in 1929 for the bargain basement price of $350,000.

The scenerio was beautiful and the kids loved the open air rail cars and watching the rafters make their way down the river.

There was even a wacko helicopter tour pilot that would dive all the way into the canyon, buzz the train then pull straight up just before hitting the oncoming canyon wall.

We'll go on that ride next time!!

Jack's First Day At School

I couldn't let Jack's first day of pre-school go unannounced. As you can see he's quite excited about school. (He almost got on Kailee and Ben's bus while waiting at their busstop once.)

He loves to where his backpack and (pretend) to be like his older brother and sister.

He goes MWF afternoons at a nearby Christian pre-school where he learns about his alphabet, patterns and, of course, Jesus. He'll have a another year of pre-school before kindergarten starts.

Jack also attends a speech class for late developers. Speech takes place separately, twice a week in both a group and individual setting - about 2.5 hours per week. He's made marvelous progress, and can articulate, "I don't know!" better than anyone in the family.

Way to go Jack!

Garden of the Gods

Lisa's parents were in town last week. We had a great time visiting some of the local attractions. Check out some pics at Garden of the Gods.



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