What Caeven thought of the ride home

Caeven was so slap happy on the way home, all the sugar must have been starting to wear off, because he was all giggles for about 10 minutes straight!

I would have posted another video of earlier in the day as we were headed up Old Stage rd but Brittney recorded it on her mom's camera so it will have to wait but it was crazy, the boy fell asleep on the way up the rough wash board filled road despite his little noggin' bouncing all over the place...well not too much, Nana was back there to hold it in place with a make shift blanket neckbrace.

Brittney reminded me that I have my mom's card reader so here's the video

The Sunday Drive home

These are some panorama pics of Colorado Springs (but backwards this is the South end of town)

(this is the central part of town)

(and this is the north end)

We (I especially) had a lot of fun being out and getting to play in the bronco!

This is actually trail 370I that is really just a knarly shortcut (by no means faster) off the main road. It was full of moguls and as we were nearing the end of the road I had to stop and get some flexed shots of the bronco...for my brothers, I totally miss the days when we all lived close and could go camping and wheelin' in Kev's Scout, Ken's Jeep, and Carson's Comanche. Another reason why this hunt is going to be soo much fun playin' with the boyz!

Billy 2 is performing great, just wish there was more time and gas money to get out and see the 100's of other beautiful and fun places here in Colorado!

Sunday Drive

We decided to go on a Sunday drive to see the leaves changing colors up Old Stage rd and up part way on trail 379 where we stopped to have hotdogs and smores...except we forgot the hotdogs so we had chips and smores, YUMMY!!!!!






Getting warmed up...sort of, this was quite a nice fire pit that was already set up when we got there. The trail, I think, is supposed to summit Almagre Mtn? at around 12k + feet.





Caeven had no trouble diggin' in to the chips, this boy loves to eat and can pretty much get away with eating whatever with a face like that! He is too darn cute!

This was alos Caeven's first experience around a camp fire and he loved it...wasn't that warm of a fire because we made it pretty small since we weren't going to need it for hot dogs.

Red Lobster & Napkins

After we had taken our quick drive on Thursday we headed over to meet Mom, Carson & Lana at Red Lobster for dinner (another reason aside from the rain that the drive ended quickley) and while we waited nearly an hour for our food after we were seated Caeven was quite the entertainer and decided he'd try out a few different looks with his napkin.

Playing with Carson and the Bronco's

This is so deceiving because the other sideof the wall is like 3 feet or os down.

Sorry about the quality of the pics they were taken on my cell phone.

Ever since I finished my Bronco I've been bugging Carson to fix his little Bronco so we can play. Honestly we could probably start a Bronco II club since I have a Bronco II, Carson has one, Timmy B has one, and Adam WANTS ONE...I hope he can get one soon. But any way I had Rhonda bring up the 30" tires I had originally before I did all the swaps so Carson could put those on his '86 since he finally got a new battery to get it running again. Needless to say it was like a kid with a shiny new toy when we went for a drive and ended up playing at the old Liberty Toyota lot.

Quick Drive

Brittney, Caeven and I were going to take a drive this past thursday on my day off after I had fixed my bent radius arm problem...and it started to rain as we got closer to Garden of the Gods and even more as we started up Rampart Range rd, sooooo we only went up a little ways and I spotted this rock to try some test flexing. I still need to get back somewhere I can actually do some decent wheelin'. I have a feeling Billy 2 will be thoroughly "broken in" on our hunting trip in late Oct. (hopefully not just broken)

I had pulled up on the rock farther but in order for me to jump out and take pics I had to shut off the truck and set the e-brake...and the truck rolled back a tad. I'd say this rock was about 20"-24" tall (enough to be scary if your the one on the down side of the truck...like Brittney was in this pic and the other angle above)

I still think I could get a little more flex out of the front but I think the truck isn't heavy enough since the James Duff coils are for a V-8 powered vehicle and I lack the extra weight in the front. Still a lot of fun to run a round in though. I've had a few people get upset and throw their hands around because they think I'm too close or something when it's just my headlights shine right into their rearview (and also the fact that OBJECTS IN MIRROR MAY BE LARGER/CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR) ;-)

Ceaven grabbed the paper one morning after he was done eating. He then grabbed a pen and while circled the things he wanted he said yum yum mommy. It was so cute.

Great Grandpa

My Grandpa loves Caeven and Caeven feels the same way about him. We were over at his house one day just talking when out of the blue my 86 year old Grandpa was on the floor crawling after Caeven. Caeven thought this was so funny, i don't think I have ever seen my Grandpa do that.

Having fun

When Kelli was here we went down town to the fountains the kids had a great time. Caeven was not to sure about the water hitting him in the face so he spent most of his time playing in the buckets.

First bike ride

We got this bike seat for free from someone Chris works with ans Caeven loves it.

Zoo

Caeven has always loved the zoo even more so now that he knows what the animals are he gets so excited when he says the names.

A day as the races

My cousin Matt races cars down in Mosca Colorado, they are fun to watch. And if any one has heard the song hick town that fits the people that are there. We went on the fourth of July and my dad and I got to sing the National Anthem, which i have not done since high school so hopefully it sounded good. Caeven had the best seat in the house. I thought that he would hate the loud noise of all the car but he loved it.

We found our way of keeping Caeven happy just give him a sucker and all is good.

Chris' Bronco Conversion

To help give some perspective on height, my father in law Randy (who helped a ton) is about 6'1" or so and I'm 5'5" on a good day.

As most of you know I bought an '84 Bronco II this past summer that was and is exactly like the original Bronco II that I had in high school and up to post mission until the tragic descent down Mt. Blanca and I tipped Billy 1 on his side. I had great plans and chopped the top and was going to do all kinds of work but then realized that it wasn't as good of an idea as I thought with a family now in the pic and limited funds. So I picked up Billy 2 for $500 from a family up off of 70 west just outside of Denver, threw in an old tranny I had stored at my brother's house and away we went. Wasn't long though and I decided that I couldn't keep Billy 2 stock and decided to swap over all of the running gear from Billy 1 (the Dana 44 solid front axle w/locker/disc brakes & the matching Ford 9" rear end with a posi trac from an Early Bronco) and make a nice, capable family 4x4 and camping rig. So I bought James Duff 3.5" progressive coils and new c-bushings along with rear spring eye bushings. It took me about a week all together to get everything swapped over (the weather didn't cooperate much while we were in Alamosa and I needed to spend time with the fam on my time off also). The truck also has the stock BII rear leaf packs with 2 explorer leafs woven in and a toyota overload leaf that are all atop a 3-4" lift block. I put on the 2nd shock set up front and it has helped tremendously with the trucks stability since I'm not running sway bars. BTW my wife is heckling me as I write the details of my work. To wrap up it is a ton of fun to drive but there are still a few kinks to work out with the radius arms not sitting level, re trimming the fenders and cutting down the '79 bronco t-style steering linkage to fit and a few other things here and there. In total it has changed front frame rail height from about 15" from the ground to 31" off the ground. I estimate it to be about 8" suspension lift and then the 35x12.50 BFG's pick up the rest. I will be posting more recent pics as well as hopefully some action shots too in the bear future!