The Blue Wall

Ben and I have been wanting to paint one more accent wall in living room/kitchen area. However, instead of the more traditional red or green accent wall, I picked BLUE! A little crazy, but I think I like it :)

That's blue!

It's a very precise job you know ;)

Sage: I'm bored - painting stinks - take me for a walk!
Tada! The final product!

And from another view :)

Published paper

First time a paper published with my name on it!

A Weekend in the Clouds

Camping with mom and dad in Medicine Bow (elevation 10,700 ft = 3260 m.). Clouds and sleet on the first evening, lots of beautiful gloomy, rainy clouds all day saturday, a freezing night sat/sun, and then some well deserved sunshine on sunday!

The rigs (left - ours; right - mom and dad's).



Lots of hot chocolate and sitting by the fire.

Pretty flowers everywhere!



A hike in the clouds.









Some fishing (yes, I'm wearing 2 sweaters, and two coats... in August)

Beautiful views.

My man and the moon :)

Our horse.

Dad fishing.

Lightning

Always the weather nut, I have to share this one! Taken from the Mountain View Centennial webcam, a nice shot of lightning from the morning of August 15th.

Dog house for Sage

With a husband who is an architect, of course our puppy couldn't go without an appropriate dog house. So, for those of you who hadn't seen Sage's new (well it's been there for a while now) dog house yet - here some pictures of it. Ben built it, and yours truly painted and decorated it. All it needs still is some roof shingles!

Coming soon - a New Roof!

Courtesy of the Laramie Mesocyclone(*) of May 22nd, 2008! We apparently got some hail damage to our roof, and get an almost free new roof from our insurance! Wohee! They started yesterday. Ben picked the color shingles - we will go with a darker one this time, to match the color that we want to paint the house.




Big container in front of our house. (btw - see my pretty pink cosmos?)
(backside, old shingles)

(*) a.k.a the Laramie 2008 tornado, although no one ever presented official documentation of a tornado actually hitting town, therefore all we know for sure is that it was just a strong storm, with several tornadoes that formed a little ways out of town.

Proud new Aunt and Uncle to Tesse Hendrik Mooiweer!

Meet my new little nephew! Born August 4th!
Tesse Hendrik Mooiweer.


The whole fam: Mom Erika, Dad Bastian, big brother Ivan, and of course little brother Tesse!





Mom and Tesse


Dad and Tesse