April

A couple months ago a friend of mine and I decided to start a new charter school. It has been a huge undertaking, and pretty much consumed both of our lives. Most of the pictures from here on out will probably be relating to the development of this new school and the exciting things happening in our lives:

The entire family joined me one weekend when we had a booth at the CSU Children's Festival. There were some fun activities and lots of candy:

A caricature artist was giving out free drawings:  

Here are some of us from the new school team:

Other weekends we hosted community meetings to gather input:

Luke ran in the Horsetooth Half Marathon

 Another weekend Luke and Jack participated in a VOC event

 Lily finished her 2nd year of Let's Play Music!

 Another example of how Josie can sleep anywhere:

 Lily had a research project at school on dinosaurs, we visited the Denver museum exhibit on dinosaurs:

She created a poster:

And gave a presentation:

Josie sleeping slideshow

Maybe it is the result of being the 3rd child, but Josie is able to fall asleep anywhere: 

January thru March

Things have been crazy this year with a new job opportunities and dealing with dogs... so the blog has suffered. But here are some pics to get caught up:

Luke took the girls to a daddy/daughter dance:

I started brewing kombucha which quickly got of out and and I can barely keep up:

Luke hanging out with his coworkers:

The kids and I attended a global unity fair at CSU

The kids also tested for their next belt in Taekwando

Funny pictures

Every time I download the pictures off my phone, I find a treasure trove of funny pictures. 

Luigi

After re-homing Waldo, we started searching for a new dog. This time we decided to go with a puppy and we found a dog rescue in Boulder that had a boxer-lab puppy available. This rescue is affiliated with a groomer in New Mexico who rescues street dogs and fosters them until they find their forever homes. We drove up to Boulder to get the puppy straight off the transport from New Mexico. He was 16 weeks old and as sweet as could be: 

We decided to name him Luigi. The kids love having a puppy around. 

He seems to be doing well with crate training and potty training. 

Except for that one time we came home to this. Hours of bleach cleaning and trying not to vomit!

But he is such a sweet boy and a great addition to the family.