Jonathan - What's the lion say?

ROAR!!!!

This Fall Jonathan has learned what several animals say:

Lion - Roar!

Dog - Woof!

Cat - Meow!

Tractor, Motorcycles, Cars and Trucks - Varoom, varoom... oh wait that's not an animal!

Shutterfly Photo Book

Here is an online scrapbook that I created of our vacation. This has some more photos for everyone to enjoy!

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Fall Fun

Nana and Coach came to visit at the beginning of October. We drove to Green Acres Farm on Highway 45, just north of Jackson. Everyone enjoyed the pumpkins, but at 92 degrees the weather was not very "fallish"!

Jonathan - You look like you're getting sleepy...
Maddie Bug had a great time!

Excursion to Breckenridge, CO

Here are the long awaited photos from vacation! We had a fantastic time and are already looking forward to when Jonathan can join us on skis! We hope that you enjoy the pictures.

This is taken at Twin Lakes Reservoir. Twin Lakes is a small town (population between Breckenridge and Aspen.

Boreas Pass from our Sunday afternoon drive.

Jonathan and Mommy had fun playing in the bear cave at the Children's Museum.
Aspen Tree Trivia: The Aspen tree forms large groups of genetically identical trees connected by a single underground root system. They form through root sprouts coming off an original parent tree,
Playing at Peek-A-Boo Toy Store

Jonathan discovered raisins and he's a fan!

This is one of my favorite photos from vacation. It's taken at the edge of Twin Lakes Reservoir.

This is the moose and her calf that we saw while hiking Georgia Pass.

Another favorite taken on the western mountain of Boreas Pass.

Hiking Laundry Mountain

Well, it's official. The Tipton's are going on vacation in 3 days!
In preparation for Breckenridge, CO, I've been sorting clothes and washing laundry. Then it's time to dry the clothes and fold the laundry... It's really a never ending cycle. Actually, now that I think about it, there seems to be lot of work that goes into taking a vacation. As my "Vacation To Do List" grows and grows, I've wondered if the endless vacation preparation doesn't somehow defeat the purpose of the vacation itself.

Muddy Saturday....

This summer the Tipton's planted a garden with squash, zucchini, peppers, cucumbers, cantalope, honeydew, tomatoes, flowers, basil and rosemary. We enjoyed working together to plant, weed and harvest the produce and we're already looking forward to improvements and expansions for next summer.

The delicious vegetables fed us many nights and we had enough to share with friends. Our favorite dish from the veggies quickly became homemade tomato sauce which we used for pizza, YUM!

Since, all good things must come to an end, today we cleaned out the squash, zucchini and cucumber (along with a few weeds). We replanted the rosemary and basil to bring indoors. Because of recent rain, we had several inches of mud in the garden. Of course, if there's mud - Jonathan must play in it! Here are a few photos of the garden clean up.

Check out the following link for some updated photos of Jonathan and our family. Enjoy!

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