Denver Stock Show and Broncos Heartbreak

 On Monday I hosted neighborhood book club, and I was kind of dying last week because I put off reading the book and when I did -- I realized I recommended a different book than I thought I had. I thought I chose this one but instead sent out THIS one, and they are not the same. Ha. I told everyone we'd have a funny read for Christmas break and as I was reading it I was like, um when does this get funny??

So even though it wasn't the comedy I was expecting, we had a good chat about neurodivergence and judging. Whoops. I love book club nights.

The boys had to choose their science fair projects this week and fill out proposals. Three kids in elementary school is different than two! Luckily they chose some pretty straightforward experiments so hopefully it's ok :) 

Michael and I both had book club on Thursday, and Westin had a field trip Friday.

Saturday we did a day trip down to Denver for the Western Stock Show, which sounds random and it was. But those cows! So fluffy and perfectly groomed, down to the last little poky hair at the top of their tail. We watched a pig talent show and some animal races, plus saw tons of bulls and cows and different animals being perfectly groomed for the show. My favorite was seeing a mother pig and 10 little piglets, they were just so sweet. Then we went almost straight to the Behunins to watch the Broncos game. Such a stressful game with a HAPPY ending, but then minutes later we found out the Bo Nix broke his ankle. Westin was absolutely devastated. Those big feelings still get big sometimes and I felt really bad for him, especially after his love for the Pacers last year and Haliburton's achilles injury just minutes into game 7. The life of a sports fan is rarely great, but maybe Indiana will deliver for us Monday.

Sourdough forever!
Michael mixes it up, stretches and folds, I bake. 
I think this with butter is my all time favorite food these days.

Ready to host neighborhood book club!
This is pretty new and our third month of doing it,
and I LOVE getting to know my neighbors more.

I keep thinking our house feels like a breath of fresh air without Christmas up.

New blank wall coming together.

I love these pictures.
I see these from my bed so I needed to pick two pictures I'll never get sick of.

Fluffy cows at the stock show!
So funny how multiple grown men just get every hair in place on these cows.

Such a big dude.
Getting hairsprayed.

Spanky the pig new lots of tricks and I think this was the boys' favorite part.

Asher the Ram is worn out.