In My Neighborhood Tuesday ~Something Old

In our city, we have the University of Northern Colorado (UNC). This beautiful building below is named Gunter Hall, and is one of the University’s Gyms and PE Education centers on what is termed the “Central Campus”. Build in 1926 this old brick building was built when the University was called Colorado State Teachers College. I attended this college from 1987 – 1991 and obtained a degree in Elementary Education. Teaching teachers is still something UNC is known for.

Interested in showing off your own neighborhood and joining in on a fun new Meme too? Well grab your camera, take a walk, take some pictures…. but first visit Eighty MPH Mom and get your assignment for the week!

A Day For Quotes ~Perseverance

Happy Sunday everyone! I just finished visiting my friend Laurie’s blog Guessing All The Way where she put up a very inspirational post on her experiences with walking the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure. She is on day 3 today and could really use any and all support we have to offer, so go give her some comment love if you have a moment!

He who limps is still walking. ~ Stanislaw J. Lec

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that precedes the victory. ~ Karen Bliss Livingston

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there, then never, never, never give up." ~ Norman Vincent Peale

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

"You can do anything you think you can." ~ Christopher Reeve (He should know)

If you love quotes and like to post them on your blog, please feel free to link up below! I will post quotes and the Linky Tool every Sunday, and since I love reading other’s I will visit yours every week!

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Target Gift Card Winner!

Hi All!! I did draw an original winner on Saturday morning for the Target $50 gift card. Sadly, I have had no response after my email on the same day (48 hour response and it has even been more)…..So my second draw is chosen below, as I had a few questions as to to winner!! So the giveaway goes to: #223 The Green MomSter. Please check you email as I would just love to give this gift card away…Please…and Thank you!!

Just a reminder, that this was not a sponsored post in any way, and if anyone wants to see the proof about the first winner I did save the screen shot to show you! I really enjoyed hosting this giveaway and thank you to everyone that entered and linked up!

Love you all!

Wordless Wednesday ~Favorite Picture of the Week

Taken with my cell phone, just got to love these faces!  

I am finally finding time after a very busy week to take a breath!  I hope to hop around a little and visit your blogs today, thanks for visiting me over the last week and being so patient!

I also need to draw a new winner for my Target $50 Gift Card giveaway that ended last Friday night, as the first winner didn’t respond, so stay tuned for that!!

 

 

A few of my favorite Wordless Wednesday can be found at:

Jolly Mom

Go Graham Go

LookWhatMomFound...and Dad too!

 

A Day For Quotes ~Smile

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you start your week off with a smile after reading these!

A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey. ~ Helen Keller

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~ Japanese Proverb

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him yours. ~ Zig Ziglar

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. ~ Goldie Hawn

A smile breeds a smile. ~ Ted Engstrom

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa

If you love quotes and like to post them on your blog, please feel free to link up below! I will post quotes and the Linky Tool every Sunday, and since I love reading other’s I will visit yours every week!

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Going Down!

• I have 47 unread emails (just today!)
• I have 291 unread blog posts in my Google Reader
• I have 5 work days ahead of me where I will miss lunch
• I will never get caught up at work (at least until the calendar says September)
• I have no time to read blogs at work this week!
• My Mother’s Birthday was last Sunday….the cards are still in the car
• But I get to go see my Mom (1 hour away) on Saturday (Yea!)
• I have to work 2 hours on Sunday (but I can take my kids)
• I missed A Day For Quotes, Take Me Back Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday this week!
• My daughter is a 1st grader, and that went great!
• Help Me! I feel like I am going down this week!

P.S. We went camping this last weekend and had a GREAT time!

See you soon guys!!

Wordless Wednesday

 

So where did the summer go?  I can’t believe this little girl will be in 1st grade on Monday, and my Cutie Bug will be in “Pre K” (Preschool).  And don’t try putting bricks on their heads, it just doesn’t work! 

A few of my favorite Wordless Wednesday can be found at:

Jolly Mom

Go Graham Go

 

If I am not hopping around this weekend it is because we are camping!  Have a great weekend everyone and don’t forget to enter my giveaway too!! 

Anyone One Else Not Going to BlogHer? + a $50 Target Gift Card Giveaway!

 

A Day For Quotes ~Each Day

So here I am, sitting at home very late on a Saturday night.  Where is everyone you may ask??  Everyone in the Blogging world is a BlogHer don’t you know!  My Hubby left for Sturgis today, so that just leaves you and me! 

Here is my plug for my giveaway!  Can’t go to BlogHer?  Jump on over and enter my Target $50 Gift Card giveaway instead!  First entry is only a comment!

Anyone One Else Not Going to BlogHer? + a $50 Target Gift Card Giveaway!

For today’s quotes I give you Each Day!

 

Live your life each day, as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. ~ Harold B. Melchart

 

“Riding” Daddy’s bike

Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons. ~ Ann Ruth Schabaker

 

The days are nouns: touch them. ~ Naomi Shihab Nye

 

“Riding” Uncle CB’s bike

You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. ~ Norman Cousins

 

Greet each day with your eyes open to beauty, your mind open to change, and your heart open to love. ~ Paula Finn

 

If you love quotes and like to post them on your blog, please feel free to link up below! I will post quotes and the Linky Tool every Sunday, and since I love reading other’s I will visit yours every week!

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Wordless Wednesday ~I am so in Trouble!

This was a self chosen pose, just so you know. Help me when she is 13 and 15, and 18 oh, and 21!!!

A few of my favorite Wordless Wednesday can be found at: .

Jolly Mom

Look What Mom Found & Dad Too!

Go Graham Go

P.S. While you are here, go enter my $50 Target Gift card giveaway!! All you have to do is comment to enter!!

It’s all about NOT going to BlogHer don’t you know!!

Anyone One Else Not Going to BlogHer? + a $50 Target Gift Card Giveaway!

Take Me Back Tuesday ~Sturgis Ramblings

I wasn’t sure I was posting about Sturgis this year, but it always just fits into Take Me Back Tuesdays so well!! So here you are going to get a few general ramblings about past Sturgis trips.

 

This first photo is from the last time I went to Sturgis, that would have been in August of 2002.  That is actually me in the middle, with our friend J, and Hubby there on the left.  The big truck set up with the trailer in back is affectionally know as the Chase Truck.  When you have 15 or so people, their assorted camping gear, food to feed them for the week, and well….the beer you need something large to haul it all.  This rig is a F250 Ford Diesel pick-up with a 4 horse trailer attached.  Oh, I almost forgot to mention that I was usually the one driving this set up!

 

The year 2002 was my last year because I got a new job in 2003, and in my office of five people, 2 of them were my Sturgis buddies, thus making it pretty hard for me to get the week off.  By 2004 I had a tiny baby (Yea!) and we have never found a good overnight babysitter to free me up for an extended vacation away from the kiddos. 

This picture above, while it looks a lot like Sturgis is actually Sundance Wyoming.  Basically in the entire region of Southern South Dakota and northern Wyoming the towns end up just packed with bikes and all end up looking like this. 

 

This picture is of Hubby and our friend D.  This one takes me back to 1994, my very first year of Sturgis.

While I do miss going to Sturgis with my friends I don’t look back with regrets that I can’t go.  I couldn’t imagine my life without my kiddo’s, and the friends that go, well they are mostly here in our small city anyway! 

 

“How do you play along? We all have tons of photos from the days before the digital camera. I figure if we just scan a few each week, eventually they will all be safely into our computers. But you don't need a scanner to participate! - Just find a photo that takes you back to another time. Every week you can come back here and share photos that "Take you Back." If you decide to participate, sign the Linky below and I promise to head on over and spread some comment love your way!”

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Anyone One Else Not Going to BlogHer? + a $50 Target Gift Card Giveaway!

Couldn't go to BlogHer this year?? Well that's o.k.! Because as small as my blog is, I decided to start an “I can’t go to BlogHer” blog hop! How does this work? I would love to have you write a post on why you can’t go to BlogHer, but that is not required! If you just want to link up you can! Just put in your main blog link, or a link to any post in your blog, and I will pop over and visit you and maybe even share your sad story about why you can’t attend BlogHer this year!! Have time to blog hop? Then just visit as many people as you can in the Linky!

But wait….there is more. If you even comment on this post, you will be entered into a wonderful Giveaway drawing for a $50 Target gift card. Yes, all you have to do is comment!! Additional entries will be added at the end of this post!

But first I must bore you with the details of me!!

I am a full time work outside the home mom as a Transit Specialist with a local government's Transit Division (i.e. I work my cute hind end off doing anything they need me to do to hold things together, at a bus service).
But the main thing about me?? I am a mom of 2, a 6 year old girl my "Angel" and a 4 year old boy my "Cutie Bug" Throw an awesome Hubby into the mix, and a 13 year old Border Collie and you have me. I started to blog because of the giveaways don’t you know!! If you post buttons, and write posts you get extra entries!! But once upon a time many things changed, and I started to pay attention to these awesome bloggers that hosted giveaways!! I learned that they are real people that are going through many of the same things I do every day, and well….I learned to just Love them!!

My goofballs!

But I know you came over for the giveaway right?

To enter the giveaway for the $50 Target gift card you must:

• Comment on this post! Way to easy I know, but if you don’t do this you will be disqualified (I will be checking).

Hey regular readers that are going to BlogHer, you guys can comment as well! All you have to do is leave a comment too!

Please make sure your email address is marked as public in you profile, or leave it in you comments! If I can’t contact you, you can win you know!

For additional entries please:

• Put your blog into the link below and leave a comment!
  
• Blog about not going to BlogHer (include the link in your comment please because I want to read it!)
  
• Blog about going to BlogHer! (include the link in your comment please because I want to read about that one too!)
• Follow me on twitter at @coloradomommy (You are now warned that I mostly tweet about giveaways, but please say “Hi” anyway o.k.?)
• Tweet this giveaway every day for an extra entry. You can use this: Anyone One Else Not Going to BlogHer? $50 Target Gift Card Giveaway! Visit A Day With Two to win! @coloradomommy http://bit.ly/bu68T7

• Jump up and down and say “I want to win this giveaway” (Sorry, but I don’t want to make you follow me, or subscribe to me if you don’t really want to. I mean my Google reader is way out of control as it is, I assume yours is the same!)

This giveaway will end on Friday August 20, 2010 at 11:59 pm Mountain Time. The winner will receive in the mail an actual $50 Target gift card.

Please note that I was not sponsored in any way by Target or anyone else. I just wanted to do this for anyone that came across my blog, and for the regular readers too!

And hey, if anyone loves quotes, or posting old pictures please link up to my Meme’s! Here they are:

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A Day For Quotes ~Camping

I am finding it hard to believe that in the Day With Two household we are watching our Summer winding down!! The next 2 weeks become a flurry of activity for us. Hubby leaves for Sturgis on Saturday, when he gets back the following week we take the kids camping for 3 days. Then my daughter goes back to school on the 16th!

Today I give you quotes on camping in anticipation of our upcoming trip!

Camping: nature's way of promoting the motel industry. ~Dave Barry

Camping: The art of getting closer to nature while getting farther away from the nearest cold beverage, hot shower and flush toilet. ~Author Unknown

Camping last August

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. ~Henry David Thoreau

How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire? ~Christy Whitehead

Yes, it gets cold in the Colorado mountains in August!

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. ~Dave Barry

If you love quotes and like to post them on your blog, please feel free to link up below! I will post quotes and the Linky Tool every Sunday, and since I love reading other’s I will visit yours every week!

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