Poudre School District Kick Off!

 Well, I'm not sure if I ever posted on this blog or not, but i recently was hired on to be the Media/Tech teacher at Red Feather!!! Woohoo!  It will be after Preschool hours, so i will be doing both jobs!  Anyways, PSD had their big "kick off" for the new school year at the Budweiser event center, and it was a blast!

 Our Superintendent, Dr. Smyser, spoke to the crew, and then she invited our keynote speaker, Mark Hoag, onto the stage!  His speech was wonderful and i think we were all inspired!

 Its gonna be a great year!

Campfire and Some Trout ~

  Jordyn went fishing with Grandpa Frank today and came home with two trout!  She waited till i got home from training and then they cooked em up in the microwave to eat!

 She was kind enough to give us a few bites :)

 It was such a beautiful night we decided to have a fire and enjoy the stars...speaking of stars, Jordyn and I snuck out at about 4 in the morning to check out the Perseid Meteor shower and caught the tail end of it.  We laid a blanket out in the meadow and looked up at the sky together in our pj's...it was a blast! We saw several before we decided we were too cold and went back inside!  Gotta love living in the mountains!

Catching a Rainbow!

A beautiful day to catch a rainbow!

Brand New Camera!!!

 I finally ordered a new camera!!!!  My poor Nikon was getting soooo old, and it just didnt pull color like the newer cameras do, so i saved and saved and finally splurged on a new LUMIX.  Anyways, it arrived this week and I took a few photos to break it in...

 Im just loving the rich color and sharp quality to the pics!!!

 and of course...my favorite subject....Jordyn!

 Im still breaking in the camera and learning how to use all the settings...who am i kidding, that will take me forever....but I'm pretty pleased with the results so far!  What do you think?  I'm thinking it was worth it to save my Christmas, Birthday and Mothers Day money for it!!!!  :)

Climbing Wall ~

 Jordyn spent 3 nights in town with Grandma and Grandpa Bruen over the weekend, and they had all kinds of fun!  Her cousin Daniel, who she hasn't seen in a long time, was visiting, so they had a great time together!  They had lots of adventures, but this was her favorite part about the visit!

 They even tried rock climbing blind folded!  Go Jordyn, Go!

Thanks for the pictures grandpa...and thank you for making Jordyns summer awesome!  :)

Kitten Puddle ~

Kitten spent the afternoon with her sister and brother...looks like they tired each other out!  Still working on a name....we sort of like Typo, Kato, and Glitch....hopefully we'll decide soon.

Here come the grandkids...

 Jordyn is the only kid in the canyon, so come summer, she loves her summertime friends! Grandkids come up to visit their grandparents, and then all the kids get together to play! The first shot is of the kids 3 years ago in 2012...and then the next shot was from today. What fun!  

Jordyn, Mckenzie, Andrew, Brody and Bryce.