A Day at the Park with Charlie

To the left is a picture of the side of the train that we rode on at Lake Shore Park in Loveland. Below is a picture of the nice man driving the train. He was so nice that he even looked back at Charles while we were going to make sure he was okay. Charles was not really excited about the train ride and just sat there oblivious to everything that was going on.

 To the right is a picture of Charlie and what he looked like during the entire ride. He was almost asleep it seemed like.

I am not sure if any of you are familiar with this park and the train ride but there is a tunnel that you go through on the ride. I thought it would be cool to take pictures of the family in the tunnel. To the right, is a picture I took of myself on the ride. Below, is a picture of the family right after we got out of the tunnel. Mom is trying to make Charlie happy and smile but he is just not having it.

Above is a wonderful picture of myself and the conductor. To

left is a picture of Ron and Charles standing by the train. Charlie was quite intrigued by the numbers on the side of the engine.

 
 Here are some more pictures of my mom and Ron with Charles by the train. After we got off the train, Charles and I headed over to the jungle gym. I took him over to the slide and thought that he could sit on my lap and ride down it with me. After we made it up the stairs and to the slide, we started to go down and since I am a 'big kid' my butt did not slide so smoothly down the slide and I actually had to kick my feet and get us down it. I thought that perhaps if I followed Charles from the outside of the jungle gym to the slide, he could go down it by himself and I would catch him at the bottom. The thought was starting to come through but he got a little stumped as to where to go when I ran out of space to follow him from the ground. Luckily, there was an older kid up there that guided him to the slide, and then helped him down the slide. I missed something when they were going around a curve and apparently the little boy saved him somehow. Charles apparently doesn't like to go fast on the slide because he was holding on to the side, trying to slow himself down. We reached the bottom just in time to meet up with Mom and Ron so we could head to the swings.

 I think that I captured some really nice pictures of him actually enjoying himself on the swing. Even though he seems roughly excited about the swings, he wasn't. Half of the time he would just sit there and look bored so we just decided to move on to different things in the park.

 Does he look cute or what in his little train shirt that we got at the depot?? I got the same shirt as him but he was not excited about taking pictures together.

 After we were done at the jungle gym and done attempting to take pictures of me and Charles together, we headed over to the lake to look at the geese and ducks. That was very boring for Charles and he basically said he wanted to go. I took the bottom picture of the rocks and the cute little duck that kept swimming away.

When the park adventure was over, we headed over to ARC to look for some clothes and perhaps shoes for the youngen. My mom found some clothes for the new baby that is still in my sister's tummy and I found a present for Wyatt. Oh yeah, I also found a shirt for myself. Below is a picture I took of Charlie while we were going home. If you can't tell, he is talking on his Elmo phone which I thought was adorable. He doesn't speak a lot of words yet so it is a lot of baby talk. I wonder if he actually thinks he is talking to someone? Overall, the day was wonderful because I love hanging out with my parents and super cute nephew.

Just some random things from the last few days

 Above is a gorgeous sculpture that I found at a flea market when I went with my Aunt Sharon. I think it is very interesting and quite appealing. It would even make a cool wedding cake topper if you had a gigantic cake.

 Here are three pictures of me at my new job. I am a marketing helper for Chick- Fil- A and one of the things I get to do is be the cow mascot. I was the 'baker big cow'. Even though I work at Chick- Fil- A as contract labor, I do not plan on being there for very long. I really don't like the people that work there and I do not agree with the views as a company. I am not a Christian and I do not think that I should have to hear about them praying all the time. Plus, the main reason I truly don't like them is because of their views on gay people and their right to marriage. I am bisexual and do not agree with their stance on that. If you want to be in a relationship with someone of the same sex as you, the government nor peers should have any input on that; it is a decision made between you and your partner.

 A couple days ago I was looking through my pictures on my phone. I came across these two pictures of corn that a drew in dry- erase maker and put on a board at school during the last week of my senior year. I thought it was fitting for the times because of the upcoming event, the Corn Roast Festival, in Loveland.

 Above is a picture of a giraffe teapot at Celestial Seasonings in Boulder, Colorado. I went up there with my cousin Beth, her daughter Layla, my newly aunt Crystal, and my aunt Sharon. We took the tour and went into the Mint Room which was AMAZING!!! I am pretty sure that I could live in there. Below is a picture of a sticker on the trash can outside of the factory. It says, "Quit your job and make more art". That sticker really spoke to me because that is what I have always wanted to do but have never had enough money to do. Maybe someday I will be able to do that.

 I also found this monkey in a corn costume in the Celestial Seasonings gift shop. I am into corn and thought it was pretty cute.

 Above are some pictures of things I found at Ross. The picture of the little boy and girl on the beach reminds me of the little kids on the Tootsie Roll wrapper. If you don't know, I love the little couple on the wrapper because they seem so happy. I also found the little 'Happy Hanukkah' onesie at Ross and just thought it was so hilarious. I have never seen Happy Hanukkah anything anywhere.

Last but not least is a picture I took of myself driving one day. I think that I look super skinny in it. I just thought that I would put that on here.

Today, I went garage saling with my dad and step mom. I ended up buying 44 ornaments total which made them $.06 each. I got a set of ornaments which are called the 2003 collection of Thomas Pacconi Classics which are going online for $50.00 new. Mine are missing a few of them but the rest are in fabulous shape. I also got a few smaller ornaments for free. I bought a pewter spider and I am going to turn it into an ornament because my Aunt Sharon said that it is good luck to have a spider ornament in your tree. I also got little plush bear ornaments that look like Steiff but I doubt they are. When we were looking around, we managed to find an outfit that my Aunt Sherry is possible going to wear for her wedding in September as well as a birthday present for Wyatt from Dad and Gwyn. Oh yeah, we also found little bear ornaments for my Aunt Sharon as well because she is really into teddy bears. Overall it was a good turn out. I just need to go through my room and get rid of a lot of things. I think my main collection now is going to be Christmas.

Just Over the Last Few Days

I just thought that I would post some pictures of what I have been doing over the last few days. On Friday, I worked at Chick- Fil- A as the cow for the very first time! It was amazing to see all of the people dressed up as cows in order to get free food. Not only that, but I got to judge them with the other cows. Wyatt, my mom, and Ron showed up to see me as well as get some food. I was only in the costume for a little under two hours but the heat was so intense!! I was sweating like crazy and it dripped in my eyes while I was still in the costume. However, there is nothing you can do when you are in the costume so you just have to shrug it off. Before I went to work, I thought my oldest dog, Teko, looked adorable so I decided to take some pictures of him. These were hard to capture because he kept turning his head as I took the picture. Hope you enjoy them!

On Saturday, Wyatt and I woke up early (8 am) in order to make it to Plato's Closet in time to get the best goodies to put into my $15.00 grab bag. We ended up waiting in line for an hour and I ended up with some cute dresses, a few shirts, and some stuff that didn't fit me so it is either going to my mom or back to a different Plato's Closet. After we went to Plato's Closet, we went to ARC in Fort Collins. I have been eyeing these stemware pieces for a couple weeks now but I haven't had the courage to spend $12.00 on six pieces of stemware. On Saturday, ARC had half off on the glasses so we headed up there. I ended up getting five glasses because the others were chipped for $4.89 of which my wonderful boyfriend paid. Here is a picture of one of the glasses and the shadow it makes. The actual etching was extremely hard to capture because of the shiny glass. Hope you like them!

On Sunday, Wyatt and I went to Loveland Lake to enjoy the nice weather. We had a little girl follow us for quite a while, telling us her address and name and personal things like that. Good thing we aren't bad people. Since the lake is rapidly being drained, the 'sea' weed is growing so much that it is almost impossible to swim through without getting caught in it. I am starting to think that Wyatt is allergic to the sea weed because he breaks out into little hive things every time we touch it. They seem to itch a lot and we ended up having to leave after only being there a short time. Even though we left early, we had a chance to take some cute pictures of us on the beach. Hope you enjoy! Have a wonderful day everyone!

July

 Above is a dead baby bird that I found on my driveway. It was incredibly sad to see him because he barely has feathers.

 Above is a dead fish that I found at Lake Loveland. The fish's head is roughly the size of my foot so it is huge!!! I liked how the skeleton was already exposed.

 These two pictures are of my dad's trailer that he has been working on for a while now. The trailer is a Model A truckbed that had been converted into a trailer. Dad painted it, cut aluminum sheets to the correct size of the open spaces in the front, the tailgate, and the sides of the trailer were all done by my dad. I am so impressed by his work.