Fun personality test

A friend had this link on her blog and I decided it would be a fun way to spend a few minutes of my day. Amazingly enough, after reading the results of my test, I was surprised at how accurate the test is. I am an Encouraging Architect...what are you? Click here to find out!!

Come see for yourself!

Many of you have asked to see some pictures of our home. Last night as I was out watering my flowers, I remembered that I hadn't yet taken outside pictures (or inside pictures), so I grabbed my camera to take a few shots. Here is your own personal tour of the Bruggeman home...(minus the upstairs and basement which were messy and not really decorated yet - those pictures will just have to come later!)

Here is the backyard pation/deck area. We spend lots of time reading and swinging in these skychairs (http://www.skychairs.com/ - made in Denver). There is a deck above which opens from our dining/family room, so it's nice to have shade downstairs. My flowers are still alive since it's only been 2 weeks that I've been taking care of them - let's hope they make it through the summer!

We love all of the mature trees and plants - after having lived in a new construction home, we appreciate all of the landscaping the previous owners did - it's fun to see things bloom and discover what is growing in our yard.



Here are our horse shoe pits - they line the back of our yard where Blake often plays Star Wars over the fence with the neighbor boy! I thought it was a very creative use of space too small for much else! They even left us the horse shoes.

Here are the living and dining room areas - we don't use them much, but they're nice to have for special occassions (I guess?) :) This is the view from the front door - these stairs go up to the bedrooms.

This is looking into our kitchen from the family room - I'm standing right next to the sliding door that opens to the upstairs deck with stairs leading to the backyard - someday we'll have a BBQ and patio furniture, but for now it's just going to be our card table and chairs :)

A fun feature of this floorplan is the double staircase. These stairs go from our family room up to the bedrooms - there is a landing which meets with the front staircase...very handy since I'm constantly making trips up and down between floors.

Here is our family room where we spend 85% of our time. Our home felt like "home" from the minute we walked in the door - we love being together here and look forward to hosting visitors!

Adyson's Field Day!

So I learned from a few experienced moms that in Colorado "Field Days" are a big deal. If you don't show up to watch the games, you're a pretty lame mom. The day (entire day) consists of all sorts of relay events and races - competitive enough to motivate the kids to run fast, play hard, do their best, but not so competitive anyone goes home feeling like a loser.



I was so impressed by the number of different stations, how many parents were there to help and cheer, and the overall excitement and enthusiasm of the day. I made my 1-hour appearance and caught a few cute photos of Adyson at her best. She was having a great time and seemed to have many friends in her class. 1st Grade is such a fun age to watch!

Here's Adyson "serving" up a tray of balls that keep wanting to roll off!

This one is called "Chuck the Chicken" - some of the older kids got this rubber chicken some good air!

My little "hopper" hopped herself right out of my picture - I love her happy expression :)

Batter up!!! She ran right for the blue ball and bat - her favorite color!

One Field Day down, with many, many more to come in the future. It will be fun to have our other kids out there someday running wild and free (with teachers in charge of keeping track of them, instead of me!)