my life in pictures

soooo it's been a while and let's face it no one reads anymore sooooooo here is a picture update (with some short captions to see if folks can still read)


Halloween is very scary

wife did this on oct 31

it made the papers cause we live in a small town--dogs and wife were fine--car not so much so we got a new car

one of these

which is much bigger car than I would ever own in a city but up here with crazy dirt roads the ground clearance and room for dogs and toys in the way back make it a good acquisition

then we got to halloween itself (daughter as eeyore, and son as Bret Kava)  

then we got a bunny---bunny is cute and dogs are hungry --we will have to see how this plays out

 good news is dogs can get their ya yas out on the trails and are still chasing big game

speaking of big game (and the need to clean up work sites note the bear looking to clean up)

which brings us to hockey---we had a tourney in vail which brought out the best in Aspen hockey

note the really hot hockey mom below (Aspen has only the hottest hockey moms)

Also weirdly the hotel we stayed at shut the bar at 10 pm which required some forethought from this hockey dad

 we also had a rare window when we could drive to the bells which resulted in some team pond hockey --Chicago and East coast you got nothing on this

the early arrival of winter also allowed me to go super cheap for the wife's b day---yea they opened the hill on Nov 17th her birthday so that was a pretty sweet gift for all of us

which brings us to thanksgiving---we drove to LA with a stop in Joshua Tree and hoover dam and vegas and other cool places---I will write more about that but for now enjoy some travel shots

infrastructure spend at work

 america the beautiful

 panic and freak the fuck out (she made it all the way up)

crack master (joshua tree has some amazing climbing )

tunes around the campfire--we never had an experience like this driving from Chicago to STL for t-day

holy shit the West is beautiful