August 30, 2004
BilFish's Big Soccer Day
Yesterday was a beautiful, sunny 80F day in Golden, Colorado for the opening day of our outdoor soccer Fall season.
Just wonderful. The final 3-2 win over the competition made it sweet, three goals by my Daddy made it all the sweeter, and homemade rhubarb strawberry pie shared with relatives made it sweetest.
Here's a few pix from the afternoon playing with the backdrop of the Foothills and the Flatirons behind us.
BilFish puts on his coaching hat while taking a breather
Max isn't sure which soccerball to play with first!
Cousins Shawn and Max discuss the finer nuances of goal scoring
BilFish lies pitifully on the ground after another shot is stonewalled by the keeper
After his 3rd goal of the afternoon, BilFish is too tired to celebrate. In the background, Susan gets the assist with a beautiful through ball
Max jumps. He throws. He scores!
Action shot as Max kicks the soccerball with Uncle Mike
Max runs towards where Daddio is talking with teammates in the background
Max and Shawn decide to switch soccerballs
Max enjoys a stroll on the soft green soccer field. You'd think it was Ireland except for the snakes and cacti around
Uncle Mike and Max play soccer during halftime against the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains
August 27, 2004
Noodling around
Max and BilFish make their first homemade pasta! Max is cranking away as you can see.
That's a nice lasagna noodle, if we do say so ourselves!
Getting ready to lay down a looooong lasagna noodle for the eggplant parmesan lasagna we made!
August 24, 2004
Rapids Fan!
Max got a shirt at a Rapids game giveaway. It's a bit big yet, but he wanted to try it on anyway.
Dad & Max check out Max's new Rapids jersey in the mirror.
Max is quickly growing to be a big Colorado Rapids fan!
August 20, 2004
Golden Gate Canyon State Park
A few pix from our picnic a couple weeks ago celebrating our nephew Shawn's birthday. These were taken with Shawn's new bad-boy digital camera featuring 4 megapixels and 10x optical zoom! Crazy...
Here's Max's cousin Dylan walking with Gramma O'Neill.
Isabelle the princess runs through the field of flowers!
Max and cousins play with the water pump at the picnic area in Golden Gate Canyon on a fine summer morning.
Max and BilFish take a walk in the woods.
Max and Mommy hide amongst the aspens.
Fuzzy looks on fondly as they cut the birthday cake.
Max also shows heightened anticipation as the candles are blown out.
August 18, 2004
Lemonade on a rainy day
We couldn't figure out whether to make lemonade or hot cocoa on this strange weather day!
Dad gets dinner ready while Max performs the necessary work to create fine, homemade lemonade.
As you can see, the weather presented some confusion for us. It was raining, but very bright!
Bright indeed! It was sunny but raining on us!
August 16, 2004
Colorado Rail Road Museum: Golden
We visited Golden's own super-cool train museum, the Colorado Rail Road Museum.
This was the first visit for all of us. I've waited to do many activities around Colorado that I knew I'd be doing with the kids, and it paid off handsomely with a great visit yesterday afternoon. The museum grounds are just up the road from us, very picturesque as you'll see, and really nice to walk around.
We showed up on a "steam up" day which means they have the train running and can catch a ride around the park. It only happens about 6x a year, so it was nice to catch it, really rounds out the museum experience.
We'll be back in October when "Thomas the Tank Engine" visits! Yea!
Kids! They think they're invincible!
Enjoying our first tour around the park in a passenger car behind a diesel engine
Looking out from the top of the caboose
Max enjoys the convenience and satisfaction of riding Amtrak
On the train with Grandma O'Neill
One of the many restored trains on the grounds
Oops! The ladies slipped off the back for a bit of shopping
That's okay! Max and Dad turn the wheel and slow the train so they can catch up with the girls
Sure, this looks like an impressively big engine...
But ya really gotta see it up close. This is a monster!
Or even closer...
Max and DadFish enjoying our train ride
Ever the suave character, Max onehands his train ride
Just a nice picture of my favorite people
Woops! Sounds like it's time to say goodbye
Au revoir from the fictictious town of Richardson near Golden, Colorado!