Linda Rokos Watts

Love Radiohead and love the cover by Sarah and Gianni. So much talent out there... Happy Wednesday!  Love and Gratitude.

What a weekend. Thursday night Troy and I headed to Boulder to my parents place for 3 nights so Friday morning we could load the lift at 7am at Eldora for the Spencer Nelson Memorial CU Invitational. My mama hung out with Stella Thursdays night at our new home in Breck so Stella could go to school on Friday and then come and meet us in Boulder for a weekend of skiing with her old teammates at Eldora. As always I filled the roll of starter for the three days of racing. Luckily this year I kept my voice the entire time (woo-hoo). There was a lot of great racing to watch, the weather was beautiful, Stella was having a blast with her old team training, all my family and some old friends were around, and my hubby got to be out on the race hill. I call that a GREAT weekend!  Racer in the gate, 10 seconds.....5, 4, 3, 2, 1, GO The new start house at the top of the GS, fondly called Casa de Rokos by the team.  Gratitude!  The Buffs took the lead after the fir...

We started out the last day of 2011with no power, a crazy windstorm, and trees fallen over in our driveway. 2011 has brought a lot of change to our lives but now more then ever, I finally feel like we are where we belong.  It's 8:30pm and we finally just got our power back on as of 20 minutes ago. Trevor and Remy are over and we've got a wicked game of poker going. What an awesome way to ring in the New Year!!  One of my favorite pictures from 2011, Stella at the Jolly Ranch with Ellie!  Happy New Year from the Rokos/Watts Family! Wishing everyone health, happiness, love, gratitude, and prosperity as we move into a new year!  With love and gratitude...

The story of the monumental life and death of legendary Brazilian motor-racing champion, Ayrton Senna. Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula One in the mid-80's, the film follows Senna's struggle both on track against his nemesis, French Wold Champion Alain Prost, and off it, against the politics which infest the sport. Sublime, spiritual yet, on occasion, ruthless - Senna conquers and transcends Formula One to become a global superstar. Privately, he is humble, almost shy, and fiercely patriotic, donating millions to his native Brazil, and contemplating a life beyond motor-racing. Yet he is struck down in his prime on the blackest weekend in the history of the sport, watched live on TV by 300 million people. Years on he is revered in Formula One as the greatest motor-racing driver of all time, and in Brazil a saint. Written by Anonymous. A beautiful documentary on an amazing driver. Troy and I watched this driving across country and will watch it over and over...

Merry Christmas and Happy New year! Here we are in sunny, happy Colorado! We are finally settled into our new home (which rocks btw)! In the last two week since we arrived back in Colorado we have gotten to see all of the family on both sides and move into our place. It's been a lot of work but soooooo well worth the effort. Breckenridge has been great to us so far and already it's been serendipitous on many levels.  Moving on, and to get to the point of this blog.....we have a trailer for sale. It is a 6 x 12 trailer, three weeks old, under warranty and we need to sell it.  Here is Ivan (one of our cars) with the trailer that moved all our worldly possessions across this great nation of ours.  Amazingly this thing packed in about 4000lbs of our stuff.   If you know of anyone looking for a trailer. Here is the link to our Craigslist add http://denver.craigslist.org/rvs/2769402821.html.  Much love and gratitiude....

Troy and I are spending a few days at the Jolly Ranch, sadly Stella isn't with us (she LOVES this place), she's in Seattle with her dad, step-mom and little brother. Since we were moving over the holidays it was awesome that she could go visit the Larsens and I'm grateful she gets to spend a happy Christmas with them..... but boy do I miss that little monkey!   The Jolly Ranch! Love this place and the people here!  We got about 12 inches of snow, we took a little drive to the town of Lake George. Love all the old structures around here, even better when covered in snow.    Just down the road from Becky and Bill.   On the ranch with Tilda and Ellie!  Tilda greeting us as we drive back in from town!   Elie joining in the fun.....you can barely see her.   The horses had their fun in the snow this morning too. Stella's favorite horse, Hickory!  Crocket, Bravo and Shiloh!   Til...

We finally arrived in Colorado the day before yesterday after 4 days on the road! Woo hoo! We got to our home in Breck and found it to be sooooooo much cooler then we had thought! The drive across country was long and we made it a little longer by driving around a massive storm that hit Kentucky (thanks to Troy's awesome navigating) we were blessed to have a safe, dry, drive across 2000 miles.   New York  Some where in middle America!   Poor Ivan (our car) was so loaded down but he ran like a champ!  West Virginia had some pretty rolling hills!   The drive through Ohio seemed to take for forever.   We have a mini Buddha glued to the dash for a little extra guidance.  Indian was a bit long as well.   All smiles as we near Colorado   You can barley see the foothills as the sun is setting but what a sight!   Longs peak as the sun is setting. My parents live in the foothills j...