This week in Ouray

Hi family, I am so glad to see the news and photos! It's great. Caleb, awesome grades! I am also so proud of all the nieces, nephews and grands. You are a great bunch of kids!

Brittany, the new job sounds wonderful, I remember you wanting to be a vet in middle school and thinking all middle school girls want to be a vet. But I think you will really enjoy this job even though it may have it's tragic moments, the joyful ones will also come around (this is life).

Well, while Mary Emily has been gone we have been enjoying Kieran's "new" jeep. He has wanted one since our first move here 14 years ago so we finally found a great deal on a used one and bought it for father's day. (photo's following).

We have also been very busy working. I am getting ready for VBS which is not until July but we really do it up big here. It is move like day camp for our town and we work with the Baptist Church taking turns hosting, I am the Director. This years theme is SonWorld Adventure Park and the setting is an amusment park with areas decorated in western, pirates, future, and castle kingdom. I am busy painting murals and making items to be hung from the ceilings and walls and also planning for the float where I am going to make the jeep into a roller coaster car and pull the trailer showing the various themes and our 4 characters. (Last year our float won first place ($1,000) which we gave to a mission couple from our church). This in the midst of directing the teams handling crafts, snacks, lessons, games, music, preschool etc and still doing bookkeeping for 4 clients.

Kieran is also swamped, trying to work on three remodel jobs at the same time. One finishing, one pouring concrete today and one going into the next phase meeting with them on Sunday to finalize numbers and move on concrete work over there. Bill Weeks is up here working with him on the excavation and concrete and may stay to help on some of the framing.

Mary Emily is going to Lake Travis with Perras and Lollie today. I am sure she will be busy when she gets home as well. She has been working a few days at "Maggie's kitchen" a restaurant in town owned by a friends parents. She also sleeps late and goofs off as much as possible. She has 2 funds raisers when she gets home to finish raising money for her youth group to go to camp in northern California end of July first of Aug. And then .... high school.... Wow, that came quick, even quicker for this one.

Enjoy the lives God has given you. The years just go by faster and faster the older you get. Makes your head spin.

THE PHOTOS

Any of you who have been here can see how high the river is from the snow melt that fell this winter. Thank God it has not rained in weeks because we all know that would not be a good thing. Waterfalls are every where and things have greened up nicely.

Roses blooming down the street. Many of the wild flowers are just starting. I am sure we will see lots of them now that we have our own jeep and can go up in the mountain when ever we want.

This is Box Canyon Falls. It is at the end of our street. The amount of water coming down is deafening in this rock canyon. Really amazing.

This is my favorite tree. It doesn't look like much but it grows out of a rock overlooking Box Canyon. It hangs over the edge and flourishes each spring. It is inspiring.

So here is Kieran standing on the back bumper of the jeep to show how high the snow still is on the jeeps trails. This is in Yankee Boy Basin. Very close to town. We have taken a couple of trips up there after work this week. We didn't go much farther that this, they are still trying to clear the road for July when we get the most tourist.

Last one. This photo does not do this scene justice. The water falls here is about 25 feet wide and because the snow had some how covered the river, the water is rushing over the rock and then disapears under the snow. It was really cool.

Well, thats all for now, Can't wait for Memaw to get here in just a few days. Any of you are welcome we have plenty of room (as long as you don't all come at once). Love to all, Mom, Billie, the youngest sister.