tetens and one maschhoff

sweet maria!

at the park with Noey

Our home away from home away from home

Glen Eyrie is the home of The Navigators headquarters in Colorado Springs. It was built in the 1870s by the founder of Colorado Springs, William Jackson Palmer. He fell in love with the beauty of this particular spot along the rockies. The Navigators purchased the property where General Palmer built his home, a castle, in 1953. It is used to hold conferences, train staff and be a retreat center. This is often where we have gone for meetings and training throughout the years. It is a wonderful place to come back to!

The castle, General Palmer's house-turned-castle.
We took a drive to see the vista!
Beautiful Colorado.

The Reason for the Season

Is not John and I, this is just the order they uploaded in . . .
The reason is that my parents have been married 30 years!

And John and I came out and surprised them! My sis joined in the fun later too! We had such a good time with the fam!!! We shopped, ate at our favorites fort collins spots, took a drive up in the mountains to look at the fall colors and watched the Gators win!

Thanks Mom and Dad for being so great and for deciding to spend forever together 30 years ago!

Colorado Times

John and I have been on the road for the past couple of weeks, getting to see friends and family. It has been so wonderful. I would love to post some pics of getting to see our fam! these are just a few, more to come.

Vivs . . . Vivian is such a cutie. She is talking so much. My favorite is her animal sound for a rooster "doodle doo" And she favored the word "okay" or "otay" while we were there. Couldn't get enough of her
We got to meet our newest niece Freesia!! A cute little button that was content to let us hold her awake or not. We loved every minute of it. Way to go Jens and Kristi, we love you and your babes.
Upon just waking up in John's arms!
And you bet it snowed here. In September . . . the day before the first day of fall and it was snowing!!!! We had to catch it on film or digits.

my handyman's handywork

Well, with the inspiration of our favorite coffee house (thanks Davey), the expertise and equipment of our favorite Military Navigator (thanks Roy), many layers of paint and a few extra holes in the wall (dang it)....we have handcrafted our first Teten family heirloom. Now just pray that it won't come crashing down on our table!

I like to ride my bicycle

all in a sunday's work

well, last sunday I tackled a job I had been planning on for a while! Thanks to a simple, free pattern from burdastyle.com and a $2 set of garage sale sheets put to another use . . . I now have a cute little circle skirt!



oh the joys . . . and sometimes headaches of my sewing inklings.