Fusion

Since we were in Longmont for SCHS graduation, we decided to meet our friends Kim and Ron for dinner before heading back home. We went to Fusion for dinner. It was a new restaurant for all of us, but it was really good. Though I was the "odd ball" Kim, Ron, and Kevin all had the Panko Herb Crusted Chicken:

I had the Parma Chicken:

This place is known for its martini's, so I couldn't go without trying one...so check out the "spirits" menu, on the link above.... I had "The Big O if you're Nasty"...it was yummy but you have to look it up to see what it was :)

The presentation was beautiful, but that didn't stop us from eating it. The food was great, the company was great! What a wonderful way to end a busy day. Thanks Kim and Ron for Dinner!

SCHS Graduation

Our second graduation was for Joseph, who graduated from Silver Creek High School. Since we couldn't actually make it to graduation, we went to his party at his house. It was very nice.

Here is the proud graduate:


Congratulations Joe, you did it! Yea!!!!

Joseph with his mom (Jody's cousin), Katie

Whenever we get to go to a party at Katie's house, Ismael makes home made guacamole. I know this picture doesn't do it justice. Trust me this entire bowl was gone in 15 min after it was set out. This picture is really for Jody's mom, who loves this recipe! And since she didn't go to the party...no guacamole for her....

BHS Graduation

Today is graduation day! We are actually going to two. First is Ms Leslie, a new graduate of Brush High School:

Leslie and her proud parents, Kim and Curt

I can't believe she is so grown up!

Congratulations Leslie we are Proud of you!!!

Baby's first haircut

After a year, it was finally time to mow the lawn! Here is Kevin giving it our first "haircut"

I love having a yard again!

Log Moving

At the back end of our property we have some really cool dry tree limbs. You have probably seen them in various pictures:



We had talked about moving some of them up to the house area, and use them in landscaping. Today Kevin and my dad decided it was the day. So they got our our cart and loaded them and we moved them around. I helped supervise :)

I am not Dirty!

Last weekend we had a garage sale. My great-nephew played outside all day and just had a great time. You can tell by all the dirt....though he insisted he wasn't dirty.

Scary

Another thing we found downtown was the old elementary school that has been condemned. I found this graffiti on the door.

For some reason it made me laugh...

Friday Night in Brush

Last Friday Jody and I went to Brush to see the movie "Monsters vs. Aliens". Now the movie you can get a review of anywhere. But what I want you to see is all the activity in front of the movie theater about 20 mins before show time. The picture is a little grainy cause all I had was my cell phone. But the theater is on the left and you can see the marque.


First I need you to count all the cars... I think I see about 8 including ours. So not super busy. The good thing about the theater is the price $5 for adults and popcorn for a medium is $3 and a soda is $1.50. I challenge you to find some place cheaper.

Birthday Blizzard

When I said I wanted a Birthday Blizzard, this isn't exactly what I had in mind.....

Today we were going to go to Denver to do something fun, and go out for a nice dinner....well this is the weather today, and they say it is just the beginning, it should last until tomorrow afternoon. So we are staying home....watching movies and relaxing....

25 Years....wow

March 31st my brother (Doug) and his wife (Cindy) celebrated their 25th Wedding Anniversary! I can't believe it has already been 25 years. We surprised them with a party here at the house. They thought they were just coming over for dinner and they showed up and all their family and friends were here! Here are some pictures of the big day:

Uncle Greg and Caelum

My Doug and Cindy have changed over the years.... :)

Congratulations!

But Winter was over last week...

A couple of people have been asking me about the snow that Colorado has been getting today, so I thought I would post a few pictures.

Click on the house to see them.

Now remember that on Sunday it was about 80, and today... think it was about 20 when I took these pictures

Jody says that I am wrong...

Jody said that I actually did so something fun this week. Last Sunday (3/22) I flew a kite in the backyard with Dez, Tim and Caelum.

I'm not sure Caelum was really into it that much, but I enjoyed it. It was a beautiful day, the sun was out, and it was about 80 outside...

Not much going on....

Well, it is tough to keep up a blog when all you do is work... Since, you want to have something good to write about to keep people coming back, at least occasionally.

Lately, all we have been doing is keeping up with things. Jody has been dealing with 200+ work emails a day and all the other things like hiring people, filling classes, and finding instructors. Oh, if you have 18hrs or more of graduate level Mathematics and want to teach online, contact Jody, she might have some work for you.

I've finally got some funding to do some development work on my project. Doing support is rather dull, especially when it is working well, and being able to create some of the things that I have had on my list makes the days go much faster. Lately, I've been writing additional user interfaces for our content authoring system. The program is all web based so everything is done thru a browser. I write the backend code in Perl and that Perl code writes code in javascript so that the user has a rich and fast experience on their end. Yes, that is me writing a computer program that writes another computer program in a different language, I think it is kinda neat. We have to do this cause the Perl code runs on the server and the javascript runs on the client (browser) side. Eventually, what this means to the user is that when you click things, it responds fast, since it does not have to ask the server for more information, since slow sites suck. And with how our people are organized, latency (the time to request and respond to a click) is more expensive timewise than sending a lot of data one time.

So that is what we are doing, maybe we'll have something more exciting next week.

Yogi's water dish

Jody's brother has a dog named Yogi, he is a 3yr old red/yellow lab and is a pretty good sized dog that likes to chew stuff up. So Jody decided that he needed a new water dish since he wrecked his old one. So about a week or so ago we took it over to him.

Unfortunately, Yogi used it as a dish for about 5 mins and then decided it would make a better frisbee. Now remember that this is a softish rubber dish that weighs around 3-5lbs and he was carrying it around like it was nothing.

Yogi playing keep away with it

Yogi trying to get Doug to throw it

Racing back from fetching it

So we are glad that he loves his new dish, but I don't think there will be much water in it, ever....

Weekend Adventures

On Friday, I had a conference in downtown Denver…so I talked Kevin into going with me. We actually went Thursday night, and then stayed till Saturday. It was really fun.

Here is our room:


The drapes are closed, but this is a huge rounded window overlooking the cityscape. I love big cities and this was a good view.

The conference on Friday was productive and I was able to do some networking, I think I was able to recruit a few people to come teach for me! :)

Friday night Kevin and I went to see Confessions of a Shopaholic and then went to the Paramount Café for dinner….The movie and food were both good, and the company on our date night was wonderful!

Saturday, we wanted to do some shopping so off we went. But the real excitement for the day was lunch. We had lunch at Casa Bonita! For those South Park fans, they did an episode once on the famous restaurant. We enjoyed our lunch, the all you can eat sopaipillas, and the entertainment. We also watched Black Bart lose to the sheriff and over into the water he went. We saw the “500 lb” gorilla escape, and we watched the cliff divers. Yes all that in one lunch time special :)

Here is the famous pink building......

This was our lunch...we both had the chicken dinner....chicken taco, burrito and enchilada, with rice and beans, it was yummy!

Here is the Sheriff, shooting Black Bart....when will Black Bart learn..... Kevin and I also had a chance to walk through Black Barts Cave...yikes that is scary! :)

From our table we could not only see the stage above, but we could see down to the pool below as well.

The Sopaipilla area....they were making them as fast as the wait staff could take them out.

What fun decor don't you think?

It is a fun place to go and if you ever come to visit we will take you ;)