Linda Rokos Watts

A view from what will be our new front deck looking up the valley!

One of the great things about living in a small town in that you feel like part of a community. Lyons had their annual Good Ol ' Days Festival this weekend so we went down on Friday night after celebrating Tommy's birthday to check out all the fun! Stella and her buddy Lucas getting ready to slide. Stella took a slight early lead and whooped some booty! :) A little more friendly competition. Mom, dad and Stella. In the end, Stella won a monkey and all was good in the world! Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

I can't believe my little brother is 23. On Friday, my mom, dad, Stella, Tommy and I all met up in Boulder in the afternoon for a great family dinner to celebrate Tommy's birthday! Uncle Tommy and Stella sharing some love! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOMMY!!!!

Summer break is all about having fun, right? Stella and I have been having tons of it. I love this time of year, everything is green and days are long and warm. She's been a busy bee and excited about all the things to come this summer. I know I've been terrible about keeping up with my blog lately but the there are lots of pictures to post and lots of good stuff to write, which I hopefully plan on catching up on in the near future. In the meantime , hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine, getting out and playing and enjoying family and friends as much as possible. My lil monkey in a cage. Stella getting her face painted at a Niwot block party. Sending love.... Linda and Stella!

I know I haven't written in a while but things have been crazy, exciting, suspenseful and most of all busy the last few weeks. All good things are coming though. We put an offer on a little house last week and the people accepted. We close on the house in 10 days. It's a little house, about 1,700 sqft and sits on two acres of land. Perfect for Stella and I!! I'm holding my breath till all the paper work is signed and sealed before I let my self get too excited but it's getting hard not to be excited. Picture to come soon, promise.

Keep your fingers crossed...Stella and I might have a place of our very own soon! Details to follow!

What a week. The preconception of taking it easy during summer break does not apply in this family. Apparently when summer break comes along we seem to get busier. Stella started a 3 1/2 week summer school booster program and tennis camp this last week. My poor mom has logged more hours in the car driving between Estes and Boulder then I think she's logged in the last two months. We are busier then ever at work but with all this rain the last few weeks, all of our quarries are flooded and we're unable to pull the rock that we need. Luckily we have kick ass customers and they understand that we have no control over Mother Nature. We were getting a little worried at the beginning of our busy season that things weren't picking up but the worry only lasted for a minute and now we're in full swing! Stella ripping the ball across the net. My lil one ROCKS! :) Stella, Ryan, Connor and I at our favorite sushi spot for Ryan's last night in town on Saturday. We h...