Race day for Fallon

Saturday was the last day of Fallon's Bombers class in Breckenridge which meant it was race day for all the kids. They set up a GS course for the kids and they went down with their classes.

Fallon launching out of the starting gate.
Fallon tucks for some aerodynamic speed.
A medal winner.
Top step of the podium!

V-day Shirts

The kids received some VDay shirts and I finally am getting around to posting them.

Fallon in her new horse shirt.
Keagan (and Bongo) showing off his best construction digger face.

4H

Fallon has joined 4H recently and has been enjoying it. Last evening they had a meeting in which a Mother spoke about birds.

The kids were able to make some crafts and learn about birds.

Fallon made a bird feeder out of a bagel, cisco, cornmeal, and birdseed.

She also crafted this birdometer.

Cold and busy weekend

It was frigid here this weekend! Stayed inside as much as possible except for the forays of fun and exercise. A good friend from college was in town doing business so we were able to catch up with him on Friday for dinner and again Sunday afternoon for a late lunch. Also, had a church function on Saturday night and Rene taught Sunday school.

Keagan grabbing a quick bite to eat.

















Fallon hamming it up!

Happy Valentines Day

Hope all that read this have a Happy Valentines Day!

Love to you all.

Gymnastics

Fallon has been keeping busy for the past few weeks taking a beginning gymnastics class. She really enjoyed it.

Here she is getting ready to do a double rounder with a flair mctwist.
A little work on the balance beam.

Skiing in Breckenridge

Keagan making his first attempt at skiing. He will be skiing on the big slopes before too long.







Fallon on her way to 'Bombers' class. She is enrolled in a seven week ski school where she skis with the same 4 kids and instructor. She is enjoying it. The other kids in her group are Karl, Max, and AJ. Three boys and her.





Fallon following her instructor Kathy down a run. Her goal is to be faster than the boys.

New toy

Mike is getting a new toy. This is a 29 inch wheeled single speed mountain bike being made by Walt at Waltworks. It will be the smallest 29er he has built to date. I plan on getting painted blue. I may have it painted and built up in two weeks!

Nice Shirt

A nice shirt from the Marfa Book Company on Fallon compliments of our dear Austin friends (and her God Parents). Keagan already wore his and it is in the hamper. Thanks!!

Science Fair

Fallon and her Science Fair Project. The question was 'How do you make the color aqua?' Well you add three parts blue, one part yellow, and some white to lighten it up. Fallon also completed the color wheel by making the secondary colors of green, orange, and purple.

National Western

Real Texas Longhorns loose on the streets of Denver.

Keagan and Fallon riding tall.

Busy times

So, things have been rather hectic to say the least. Fallon is already into her second week of ski school and skiing really great. She is racing the other kids (boys) in her class down the hill. She has also started a gymnastics class, which she is enjoying. Plus her school work, science fair project, and 4H. Keagan has been just tagging along as he is not quit old enough to participate in organized events yet, but he is signed up for a preschool. This means two free mornings a week for me - I hope I can find something to do with the time.

To the rodeo tonight, should be fun.

Mike

To Texas

Congrats on beating USC

(photo by Fallon)

More Christmas Fun

Fallon and Keagan with their Great Grammie.













The kids playing with some of there new toys (err box).












Here is the Gingerbread house that was decorated by Fallon and Keagan with help from Grammie.










The holidays are over and we enjoyed every minute of it!

Christmas is over

Here are a few photos of the fun we had at Christmas.

Fallon contributed to the this Christmas by taking some pictures that will be added to the family album.


More pictures to follow, once I get some time (and find the camera) to download. Hope all is well and Hippy New Year.

Holiday Greeting

  Let us give you a quick update of the 2005 happenings from the Becks:

• Fallon, 5, started Kindergarten last September.  She’s doing great and loves it, although is glad to be on Holiday Break.  She likes horses and now has a stable of at least 10 of various sizes to play with.  She started 4-H as a ‘Clover Bud’ and looks forward to the projects we’ll be tackling there.  She’s starting a 7-week/every Saturday ski class Jan 7th; skiing away from Mom isn’t enough, she wants to blast by Dad, too!


• Keagan, 2, is a ray of sunshine from the moment he wakes up.   He’s quite the ham and makes us all laugh.  He loves to make up words, sing, play with his diggers and trains, and play with his sister.  He enjoys the time in the morning when he has Dad to himself while Sissy is at school.


• Mike is doing great and is still enjoys his role as ‘Stay at Home Dad’.  He continues to amaze all with his culinary skills, adding yogurt, granola, pickles, and home grown hops for his homebrew to his ‘home made’ list.  He did really well with his bike racing this year, finishing 6th overall in his category for the cyclocross season.  He signed up for his own epic event for 2006, planning to ride across the state of Iowa in one non-stop weekend, 337 miles in total.


• Rene continues to ‘bring home the bacon’ but has changed from Business Development (pseudo sales) to Project Management and resource management for the 13-person office in Golden, still with Emerson Process Management (10+ years!).   She added a 120 mile bike ride over 3 mountain passes (The Triple Bypass) and a trail marathon in Breckenridge over Labor Day to her list of accomplishments this year.

All and all, things are great here in Lakewood.   We give thanks every day for our wonderful friends and family who provide us so much support and make us who we are.  We are truly blessed on many accounts as we bring another year to a close.    We wish all of you and yours happiness in 2006!

Christmas is here

The kids discussing with Santa on what they would like for Christmas.

Preparing for a day of celebration.

Trimming the tree

Yesterday was spent braving the 95 mph winds with Keagan to retrieve a tree. Keagan did not like the blustery day, but he did pick a good tree. The family gathered together with some Christmas music and cookies to decorate the tree.

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Thanksgiving

We survived Thanksgiving!
We gave thanks for our family!
We gave thanks that not all of us were sick at the same time!
We gave thanks that no pictures were taken!

Thanks!

The holidays approach

With the holidays approaching the opportunity for photos and stories will increase.

Things of note:
Keagan got a big boy bed
Fallon is taking a rock climbing class
Fallon joined 4H
Snow has fallen
Working hard on the house

More to come soon.