First Day of School 2018

The kids started school at the end of August.  They are all attending Swigert again this year.  It is a good school and only a 1/2 mile away from home.

Diego- 3rd Grade

Ms. Snyder and Mr. 

Ruby- Kindergarten

Ms. Marijke and Mr. Jim

Eli- 5th Grade

Ms. Whitfild and Ms. Mills

Black Canyon of the Gunnison

We took a family vacation this summer to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.  It's a state park in South West Colorado.  We camped a couple of nights and also got to stay in a hotel.  It's nice to be in nature.  We had car troubles (or so we thought), so that is why we stayed in a hotel right by the car shop.  We thought it was something majorly wrong with the car, but it turns out the oil cap was just missing (or something like that).

a cool park that we stopped at on our drive

The canyon is very deep and narrow.  The river was very loud; I love the sound of water.

Diego working on his Jr. Ranger activities.  We saw a little bear right before this picture was taken.  It was a black bear cub.  We wanted to see a bear in Yellowstone a couple of years ago, but never did so we were happy to see one here.

eating at our campsite.  There was no running water; not my favorite kind of site, but we made it work.

eating at the hotel.  We used the grill they had there and ate our camp food that I had prepared at home.  We went swimming and had a good time.