The Boss and the Boy!

I don't know which is which though!

And here is my favorite son and daughter-in-law, the proud parents-to-be!

Weekends!

So my friend Toby came to town, and left tickets at will call, so I called my Aunt Bazilla, who is always good for anything, and my friends Carol and Michael who weren't too sure about country music, and off we went to Fiddler's Green, and beautiful outdoor venue to see Toby Keith. As usual, he was fantastic--a good Sooner show--even some Boomer Sooner! Anyway, Toby is a great entertainer, hwe was onstage for a full 2 hours--two curtain calls, and even then, the crowd did NOT want to go home. My friend Carol said she would go to see him anywhere, anytime--I had opened up a whole new genre of music for her! Toby even did a few minutes of good old rock and roll! He does Ted Nugent better than Ted himself!!

Trace Atkins opened for Toby--he was also terrific! We had tickets on row G--7 rows back so I didn't even have to use the zoom lens to get this, the two of them doing their patriotic thing!

Because Aunt Bazilla was in town, we went up to Georgetown on Sat morning, had a leisurely breakfast in the mountains, and rode the train around the loop. We couldn't stay too long, because we had Rockies tickets, courtesy of another OU friend, George Frasier!

Sitting in front of us at the Rockies game were a beautiful family--it was FAITH day. This family had 5 beautiful children, two of which had been adopted from Ethiopia. These are two of the girls, and baby Fitz. Isn't he just precious?! The Rockies won both games that we saw. Tonight begins a 3-game series with the Dodgers--is another World Series in our future??

Saturday's hike

I haven't been able to blog lately...we welcomed 160 new students last week for orientation, so I spent the week in Winter Park, leading teambuilding and all sorts of activities. It was great, and we have a terrific new class, but I was worn out! So, I took Saturday off and headed up to Rocky Mountain National Park--one of the most beautiful spots in all of the U.S., I think. I started out at the Glacier Gorge trailhead and headed up to Sky Pond. The first mile was crowded with dozens of people--it was a "free entrance" day at the Park. However, after the first mile, the travelers dropped off, and it was just a beautiful hike. This first picture is the falls from the trail down below.

This is a picture of Loch Lake--you can see that there is still snow in the backcountry--even in August!

This particular trail is not for the faint of heart...

Luckily, there were some people going up ahead of me. I say luckily, because it is really hard to take a picture of yourself climbing! This is the trail, we had to scramble up these rocks to the falls, but the view from above was spectacular!

I made the entire 10 miles in 5 hours and 10 minutes--pretty good for altitude and the fact that I had to take cover from lightening and hail for a short time, and then I had to take a break on the way down, to put away all of my rain gear!

Oh and one last bit of exciting news (two bits, actually). The Marvelous Macy started kindergarten last week AND she lost her first tooth. The girl is pretty excited about her missing teeth!

Last weekend, I met my family (dad, sister, nephews, and wonderful son!) in Red River, NM.

The boys wanted to go camping, and I am always up for camping! This is what I look like when I have slept on the ground, have campfire in my hair and clothes, and have been traipsing through the woods looking for firewood! I was impressed that Ben could get a fire started, it rained all night! Ben is quite the camper. Dad didn't stay all night, he just drove out in the morning for the delicious campfire breakfast! Red River was really lush this year, beautiful wildflowers, tall grass, despite the pine beetle problem in the Lodge Pole pines...