winner

Congratulations Dorreen!!

You are the lucky winner of the Melodienotes Starbucks trivia challenge.. My daughter drew your name today. Please email me with your address and I will mail you your card!

by the way the answers to the questions are...
1. the actor is James Dean-- He was in East of Eden, Rebel without a cause, and Giant. He was my favorite actor when I was in middle school.
2. corydon, Indiana ( my hometown) is the first state capitol of Indiana
3. Hugh grant and SJP are filming "did you hear about the morgans" currently. My family and I saw them filming in Santa Fe last month
4. wilber is the Pig in Charlotte's Web. charlotte is my youngest daughter.
5. Maya, my daughter is named for Maya Angelou, the woman in the photo.
6. Simon Le Bon usually sang lead for duran duran. I loved them. Incidently, John Taylor and I share the same birthday, which happens to be today.
7. On June 20, 1974, the day I was born, richard Nixon was experiencing difficulties in the watergate scandel
8. this is maybe my favorite movie. This is Gregory Peck in " To Kill a Mockingbird"
9. Stacy and Clinton make the world a better place as fashion gurus on What Not To Wear
10. These dream shoes of mine are designed by none other than Christian Laboutin... he always has a red sole...

thanks for partcipating!

trivia contest giveaway

Well, I missed my one year anniversary on blogger. It was may 15th! and this is my 100th post. In celebration of these two occasions I am having a giveaway contest. My first ever. I am very excited. I love love love Starbucks coffee and so I am proud to say that I am giving away a $20 starbucks gift card to one lucky winner.

here is how it works... Here are 10 fabulous questions to answer. answer any right and you are entered into the drawing for the starbucks card. However many you get correct is how many chances you have to win... get it. Be sure I know how to contact you should you win. I will choose the winners on June 20th. Ok Here we go..

1. Name three movies starring this actor.

2. Where was the First State Capitol of Indiana?






3. what is the name of the movie starring Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker that is currently being filmed ( in Santa Fe)?






4. what is the Pig's name in Charlotte's Web?






5. Name this famous person.



6. who was the lead singer of Duran Duran?

7. Who was president on June 20, 1974?













8. What movie is this?

9. What do Stacy and Clinton do?










10. who designed these? hint- check out the sole...




You can always email your answers to me if you don't want everyone else to steal them Melomaya@msn.com

good luck

before and after shots/ thunderbirds

Before ... After....

We decided it was time for a summer do. this was her first real style at a salon instead of a kid haircut. It looked better right after it was cut, but we are hoping she will get the hang of it.

We got to see the Airforce Thunderbirds at the AF academy graduation last week. We parked across the street and enjoyed the show!

Here we are impatiently waiting for it to begin.

We are so lucky to live in this beautiful place. Here is pikes peak with the thunderbirds. a good shot, if I do say so myself.

Territory Days 09

Before the rain tortured us on Monday, we had a lovely day at the street festival. Nothing says party like wearing silly balloon hats with your BFF. We ate junk food, shopped, walked slowly through the crowds and had a blast.

the biggest downer of the day, however, was not the rain. It was when little cookie tried to touch the urinal cake in the port-a-potty. we tried to disinfect as well as we could.. but I never got over it. still don't want to hold her hand.

I like the milk in your eyes

cookie told me today that she likes the milk in my eyes. I was confused at first until she tried to lick my eyeball and I realized that she was talking about the white part of my eye. I took her to the mirror to show her that she too has "milk"in her eyes. She was delighted.

How to play with a frisbee

use #1: a frisbee diskuse #2: a "jetson" skirt.

This cracked me up. She likes to wear it everyday. so funny.

on a side note.. today Charli was released from Physical Therapy ( at least for now). she is getting some new orthodics for her shoes and is still wearing the "princess shoes" braces at night, but as for the once a week therapy, we are finished for now. Her foot has come a long way. We are so happy. You can kinda see a difference in the above photo, but we think it might be as good as it will ever be. Hallelujah.

camp

she is really growing up. she picks out her own clothes and has posters on her walls. she knows popular expressions and famous people. she went to camp this weekend and wasn't even homesick. Now, the rest of the family missed her a ton. After we dropped her off with her luggage and sleeping bag, we went out to dinner at Outback Steakhouse. It hadn't even been an hour without big sissy,when Cookie said," We go pick Maya up now." Little sissy must have asked us a dozen times over the three days Maya was gone. We all agreed that life was better with Maya. However, when we told her this, she said, " That's funny. I didn't miss you guys at all, I was too busy having fun." I guess that is how it is supposed to be. Camp was a great experience for her. We heard all the way home about outdoor survival, canoeing, archery, the climbing wall, Bible lessons and new friends. How could she be this old?

*********************Meanwhile at Home************


Little cookie loves "diggers" so we went to the special Library event to see some. She wasn't as interested as we had hoped.


On Saturday afternoon we hiked in Garden of the gods park. We had a super time.. the weather was great and the views were incredible. the only negative thing was the whining from one member of our party who wanted to be carried. no it wasn't Dane. or me. Apparently cookie only likes to hike if she gets to ride in the backpack the whole time.

we ended up taking Rampart Range road into the mountains for a late afternoon drive. I am sad to say that this was my first time to do this drive. We had so much fun and ended up in Woodland Park for mexican food. Of course, we all had to admit that it would have been better with our little camper with us. Welcome home, Girl.