More from Flat Matthew...

Dear Matthew,

I am having such a good time at Miss Terri’s! On Saturday, we did this great hike! We saw the ruins of an old castle. This guy, Mr. Walker, built a castle on these grounds back in the early 1900s. He also intended to build a summer White House for the US Presidents, which he started in 1911. Unfortunately for Mr. Walker, his castle was struck by lightening and burned down. All that was left were these ruins. He also lost his fortune, and so the Summer White House has only the foundation, but it was cool. We also had this spectacular view of the mountains and of Red Rocks amphitheater, which is this natural outdoor place for having summer concerts. We went to Red Rocks with Ben and Brooke and Eli, but now I got to see it from up above! It was cool! We also saw this ridge that is called Dinosaur Ridge—I could see why from up above it!

Anyway, Miss Terri also had me take a picture of her, usually she takes pictures of me! Having a great time, you should come here! On Friday, we are going to see the Rockies play!

Missing you but having fun,

Flat Matthew

Flat Matthew at the Nuggets game

Terri and Flat Matthew go to the Nuggets game! Thanks, Big Dave, for the tickets (and Mr. Lynn for asking him!)

Rocky put flat Matt in his mouth! It was scary, but fun! The Nuggets ROCK!

Flat Matthew comes to visit...

Dear Matthew,

I arrived in Colorado in the middle of last week. Man, is this place beautiful. From my inn, I can see the mountains, they still have a lot of snow!! We had snow the day I got here--4 inches--but it was warm and slushy and melted by the next day!

Miss Terri thought I looked very very handsome in my Rockies uniform! She says we will go to a game soon. We couldn't go to the home opener, though, because Miss Terri had to work. I got to go to work with her on Friday. She had to do something called a workshop, I think she had to earn our dinner, because we started at 5 PM on Friday night, and we played some tag games, and met some cool new people. We left as soon as that workshop was over and headed to the Texas panhandle. Miss Terri says that it is in Texas, but is really known as the badlands of Oklahoma. All I know is, it is 5 hours away, and we were in 3 states that day--we started in Colorado, crossed over into Oklahoma for 40 miles, and then crossed into what Miss Terri calls "the great state of Texas".

Miss Terri's daughter, Lyndsey, and her kids were there too, at some place called Papa ERs. It was funny, because the boy's name was ER, too, so I got confused by that. Miss Terri said just to call them BiggER and LittlER. LittlER is cute, but he did NOT want anything to do with Miss Terri. Macy, the little girl, is much more fun--she LOVES Miss Terri.

Anyway, we went horseback riding and we saw goats and baby goats, which Miss Terri called "kids". We made mexican food for dinner. Also, LittlER got a John Deere bicycle. He can't ride it, but Miss Terri pushed him all around the neighborhood! I saw all of this from Miss Terri's purse, but she forgot to take a picture. So, we stopped on the way back from the Texas panhandle and took this picture of me...can you see how windy it is? Luckily, Miss Terri had a good hold on me!!

I am soooo excited--Miss Terri says that tomorrow we are going to a Nuggets game! She is making me some new clothes to wear--she says she wants me to look like the Birdman--I don't know who that is, but I have to get some tatoos and a sweatband, so I am thinking I will look pretty cool.

And guess what else??? On Thursday, Miss Terri says we are going to fly on a plane to some place ELSE in Texas called San Antonio. She says we will visit some people called Benny boy, Brookie, and Eli Blevins. She says maybe I can ride the mini horses while I am there and work in the garden. THEN we are going to Austin for a conference. Miss Terri says that is the capital of Texas. So, we are going from the capital of Colorado to the capital of Texas and back!

I am having fun, but I miss you! Talk to you soon,

Flat Matthew.

Baby Eli is 4 months old!!

14 lbs. 2 oz

24 3/4 inches long!

And so very handsome...

Can I Help you with your Golf Game?

Or, would you buy a used car from this guy?

You can pay me in cookies!

Long Weekends are nice...

3 Day weekends are my favorites! Mr. Lynn came for a visit, and we went to a movie (we saw the Book of Eli--fascinating), we cooked steaks on the grill (yes, the weather in Colorado was great for that) and we watched football playoffs and, in general, we hung out together. I cried when he left on Sunday, the weekend seemed really short.

But, I still had one more day on my weekend, and I am not one to sink into self-pity, so I headed up to Estes. My plan was to do some snowshoeing with Maureen and Nan, but the snow wasn't really good for that. So, we just ended up hiking around. We saw the most amazing sights though:
a herd of over 200 elk, mamas and babies, and at least one buck...lounging around!
















And one of the things I miss the most, little ER:

Mi clase de espanol...

Estoy tomando una clase de español. Es muy divertido. Es importante que estudiar mucho. Mi amiga, Carolina, esta tomando la clase a la vez. Nos gusta mucho.

Mi professora es Edith. Ella es de Colombia. Su esposo esta en la clase tambien.

Actualmente, estamos estudiando ser y estar. Estamos aprendiendo el vocabulario.