why no blog?

Thursday --hike with mom around Aspen and have lunch and give her tour of school (while dropping off borax so my son can make slime--this is science class?).

Friday --hike up buttermilk with mom and daughter and 5th grade class--no kids complaining and got this view at the top. click to enlarge.

Friday night birthday dinner (with birthday apple pie and cool trucker hat gift).

Saturday ---take daughter to skills practice with 12 NHL alumni.  She bangs puck off Ed Belfour's shins, gets a lecture from Milan Hejduk about how to receive a pass (drop hand lower down stick), and as Pierre Turgeon watches her change out of her kit he chuckles and says 20 years in the NHL and daughters playing puck too and I've never seen anyone change like that before.  

But wait there is more--Saturday afternoon we go to rubyfest.  Wife, son and mom not so interested.  Daughter very interested.  post game she asks, why are they puking, any singing about the candy man but it sounds more like the S&M man?  Humm hard questions and why I get paid the big bucks as a dad.  Saturday night we are back to the rink to watch alumni game, watch daughter shoot between periods (horribly) and then take her to sleep over----wait no pick her up from sleepover at 10:45.

Sunday take mom to airport, take elijah to Ruedi reservoir for sailing (nothing but bullets in the last race of the season there), take daughter for a hike across the south rim (the leaves are turning--if you can hop a flight to Aspen immediately its max beatiful right now), pick son up from sailing and come home and fold laundry (just got a new washing machine after 2 weeks without. it was all hands on deck to fold).

Monday--change car insurance to CO from IL (almost twice as expensive) and run daughter up Sinclair road before family loses mind.  Oh yea and blog.

Tomorrow off for another 5th grade field trip up maroon bells.