Linda Rokos Watts

Connor and Stella in New Mexico on our last trip down there they are standing with Cortez exploring the new world! :) I just booked our tickets this morning for another fun filled trip to New Mexico. Seth (Connor's little brother) is graduating from high school so we are all heading down for a long weekend to celebrate. I think even Connor's grandparents are coming in from Massachusetts . Oh, and Chad and Laurie are coming in from London with baby Grant for the occasion ! Woo- Hoo ! We hopped online this morning and bought our tickets... $39 each way! Can you believe it!?! It's silly not to fly. It's cheaper then driving and only a two hour flight as opposed to sitting in the call for 8 hours! WOOT ! Stella is so excited!

I know it's been a few days but my poor laptop has gotten sick! :( I have to take it in tomorrow and hope that they can bring her back to life! On the up side, it might be time for a new one? Either way, here we go.... Stella had Spring Break all last week and went skiing almost everyday! woo- hoo . She went to her dad and step mom's on Thursday to spend an extra day with them for her break. 3 days away from her and I really REALLY miss the lil bugger, but I'm picking here up in a few hours and I can't wait! Friday night our little crew of friends did dinner at Fontana Sushi (our usual sushi joint). After dinner we headed downtown for a little bar hopping. LOTS of fun but man am I feeling old. I was the DD just because I'm not a big drinker so I don't mind but it's hard staying up that late. HA! I don't know how we use to do it night after night. Oh to be young! Nah.... Saturday Connor and I headed out to Dick's Sporting Goods Complex to watch the...

It's that time of year again and I got the itch to chop my hair. I seem to do this every spring. I switched it up a little this year, instead of going to Fix (my usual salon) and paying and couple hundred for a cut and color, I decided to try something different. I tried out this new place in Boulder called Floyd's. It a barber shop. They do women's hair as well but I've know a few people that have gone in there and they always come out with a kick ass hair cut. I think I have found my new favorite spot. My hair is a little shorter then I thought it would be but I love it and it always grows out right? Pictures soon....

I'm getting there. With the cold weather and snow this last week, I haven't been able to work on the wall much but today I completed phase 4. Woot ! Only two more to go and this project is done and on to the next. I can feel the months of sitting behind the desk have caught up to me but with each wall I build I feel myself getting stronger and stronger. About a month from now I'll be in prime rock lifting shape, and I can't wait. On another note... I took some random picture today after I got home while getting ready for a little dinner party we were having at the house. With Stella on spring break this week my mom and her went skiing together today. They had a beautiful day up there, very few people, warm weather and lots of snow. It doesn't get much better, I only wish I could have joined them but Stella and I got a chance to hang out all day yesterday and this afternoon. Herbs growing in the winter. Rudi's favorite new spot outside on the deck. Hope everyon...

Today is a big day for Western Stone Company. I've been working on a some project leads in the last few months and last week one finally pulled through. There is a show that is part of the Discovery Channel family called Renovation Nation. I had heard that they where restoring an old house in Boulder and needed a very specific type of flagstone. I did a little research and it was an exact match of the type that was on a friend of Paul's property . It's easy to look at a house and spot flagstone but flagstone is not always the same and this type they had on the house came from a quarry here in Lyons that has been shut down for the last 20 years. I pulled some strings (Paul pulled more), we put in a bid, and we got it! We were allowed to go in and pulled the rock we needed for this project. The truck stopped in this morning to pick up the rock and it felt great that we could pull it together and get our name out there to thousands of viewers. I think the episode is airing som...

Today Stella, Connor and I headed downtown to the Ronald McDonald house. We were there on behalf of UMass Alumni Association , Connors graduate school. We met some wonderful new people and saw some people that we already knew. We prepped lunch and in came all the residence of the 2 nd floor of the Ronald McDonald house. Stella met a little girl named Sierra from California. Sierra has leukemia and her and her family arrived in Colorado a few days ago to start another round of chemo at the Children's Hospital. This will be Sierra's 3rd round. What a brave little girl. Stella and her played almost the whole time we were there which was for about 4 hours. I think Stella made a new pen pal. :) The rest of the afternoon was filled with Home Depot, Big Lots and TJ Maxx trips. We got some new things for the house and came home to make a great dinner and bake cookies. What a great Sunday!

I was expecting to wake up this morning with tons of snow on the ground and to my disappointment nothing. :( Snow aside, we had a kick ass day (although a little cold) Before we get into today, last night Stella and I went to Dave and Busters for a few hour of fun (HOLY SENSORY OVERLOAD) but tons of fun. Connor went out with the boys to a Mammoth lacross game. Being just us the two of us, Stella and I took the opportunity to do a little shopping. We stopped at Ross on the way home and found really a great little Easter dress, and a new skirt for mama. woo hoo ! Back to today. We had a lazy morning then got motivated and headed to the Natural History Museum for a little learning . Stella loves that place. We explored the usual exhibits they have there and then hit Natural Disaster exhibit which I've been wanting to check out since they put it up. It was very interesting and Connor and Stella learned all they could about fault lines. Whew...so much to learn, so little time. Af...