Rodeo Queen

Last week we flew to Denver to spend five days with our friends, Pete & Beth Anne, who used to live in Eugene. They live near the University of Denver, where Pete now works, and Sam got a taste of life after grad school. Sam can't wait to finally be "there," getting paid to work at a university, living the dream. We are just a dissertation away! (By the way, Sam has been diligently entering his data for weeks, and was able to finally run some statistics today. He was seriously geeking out because his data support two of his hypotheses! )

In Denver, the weather was sunny and the mountains were gorgeous. We had a great time hanging out and watching our kids play. We took them to a cool children's museum and even got a grown-up dinner out. My college roommate, Chris, and her family also live in Denver, and it was so fun seeing her again. They live outside the city and have animals, so Morgan got her first experience petting a chicken and riding a horse! Here are some photos and videos of her farm adventures.Here's Morgan on "Little Buck" (who is nearly as old as me), riding with Chris' kids who are already quite good on horseback. Thank goodness they held on tight to her!


And here is a priceless video of Mo back at home having a pretty in-depth conversation on the "phone" (our t.v. remote). Is that how we talk on the phone??