A beary special boy

Today was Jace's "Beary" special person day at preschool. Each child gets one day of the year as their special day.

Jace enjoyed some of the special activities like making a poster with family pictures and bringing Mommy and Daddy to school with him. Other things seemed to make him uncomfortable like standing in front of the class to talk about his poster and helping the teacher lead the art activity of the day.

Joel and I loved visiting the class and watching the kids interact. I even got to read Jace's choice of story to the class. Jace picked "The very Cranky Bear". That seemed appropriate for a Beary special day. I hope Jace enjoyed his day as much as I did.The special activities continued at home tonight where we are hosting Teddy the bear. We found him PJs and read him a story before bedtime. Jace's homework is to care for the bear and help write a journal of the Bear's activities while he visited us.

I would love to see the entire year of Teddy's journals. The end of the year party for their class in May is a Teddy Bear picnic. Maybe the journals will be there.

Autumn colors in our front yard

I don't know what kind of tree is planted in front of our house but WOW! It has slowly been changing color from the inside branches outward. Right now it has leaves of different colors on each side. Shades from bright yellow to the deepest red and everything in between. It is an amazing beauty, a true miracle of Autumn.

I love this camera

We stumbled into a "test drive" day at the Denver Zoo. It was a promo day for one of the local camera shops so they were letting people try out their camera upgrades. I got to spend a few hours shooting photos on a camera that costs at least twice what we spent on ours.The image quality is so much better than what I usually get. I love the stabilizing feature and the simplified controls. Jace was tired but he is always up for the train ride at the zoo.

Denver Marathon

Joel completed his third marathon last weekend and set a personal record of 3:35:47.I snapped this photo at mile 19! He was doing great and we had such fun cheering him on.
After Joel ran past, it was a good thing Jace was on Uncle Don's shoulders. He was screaming and wanting to run after Daddy.

October begins

Our first weekend of October started with my first WW meeting as an employee. What I thought might be a great summer job is finally starting.
We made our annual visit to the Four Mile Historic park to pick a pumpkin and enjoy the seasonal festivities. The weather was unseasonably warm.

This weekend is the Denver Marathon which Joel will compete in for the second time. We rode the train downtown Friday night to pick up his race packet. Jace won a medal at a ball throwing game at the race expo then we walked a few blocks over to meet Palmers at the Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner.