Hail!!

Holy hail Batman! Massive storm rolled through Greeley this afternoon a dropped a bit of hail in the area. Thankfully Jen and the kids were all home to get out the hail/water that had accumulated in the window well and leaked into the library. Sadly, I wasn’t available to help since I’m at the mothership in Lone Tree all week.  

The 601

Noah has successfully completed his first year of college this week. Seems like just yesterday we were moving him into room 601 at Portland State. And now here he is saying goodbye to his first college roommate Marco, cleaning up, checking out and moving to his summer room before moving again in September to start his RA job in a different dorm. So proud of the kid and the great things he accomplished this school year. Looking forward to his visit back to Greeley this week with his girlfriend. 

Dropkick

Dads get to have fun too! While Jen and D were trompsing around Europe and the Littles were on their way home, I joined a group of good friends on the Party Bus to go see Flogging Molly and the Dropkick Murphys. It was sweaty (98 in Denver that day), crowded (8000 people at the venue?) and loud (WHAT?). Also they only had either Guinness or PBR?? Oh well. It was still a great show. Didn’t make it on stage like I did 2 years ago, but Coach did.

In this edition of its a small world...the lady in from of me turned around and wouldn’t you know it; the maid of honor from our wedding: Jennifer Gram and her husband Mark and their two kids. How random! Haven’t seen her in like 20 years! 

Next concert is Darius Rucker! 

Montana

The Littles returned safely on Sunday night from their 10 day missions trip with the Mountain View E-free youth group. They were able to serve at Camp Utmost in northern Montana, staining building, cleaning the camp, and Leaving His Mark with the many people they came into contact with to and from. The adventures they were able to do this year included a tour of the former Wyoming penitentiary, a stop at Old Faithful and a tour of the Lewis and Clark Caves. I hope to have more pictures soon. 

Wesley!

Pretty proud of my brother. He had the opportunity this week to participate in the official swearing in of over 50 new American citizens. Living in the Black Hills and representing the Senator has its benefits. Great photo too. 

BBH-Greeley

I love networking with my job. Lots of opportunity to do that with all the groups I’m involved in: Greeley Chamber, Evans Chamber, BNI, and a few boards I serve on including the Community Grief Center. 

This morning was the monthly Business Before Hours hosted by my friend Brad at Sears Real Estate. It was a beautiful morning to shake some babies and kiss some hands! 

More Paris!

A few more from Europe today. The adventure to get back to 80634 begins in about 2 hours! 

Paris!

Jen, Little D and the group from Frontier are enjoying their last day in Paris. And what a trip it’s been! I can’t wait to hear all the stories when they arrive safely home tomorrow night. I hope it was worth 2 years of dishwashing for Andrew to pay for his own trip. 

2018!

Happy New Year! Welcome back to Campingdad. I’ve decided to start blogging again in order to capture the daily goings on in our family. I’ve missed it. I decided to disconnect the feed from Facebook, so only people who know about the blog will be able to find it, instead of clicking over from Facebook. It will be a little more private that way I believe. So I’ll be able to share a little more about our family then I normally would on Facebook. Does that make any sense? I hope so. 

Welcome back dear readers. Thanks for making this little piece of the internet a daily stop. 

Hello Again!

I might have "fixed the glitch" could possibly return home to my blog here on Blogspot. I'll try a few posts with this new app and see what happens. Welcome back to Campingdad! 

 

The End

All good things must end sometime. And today I sadly close my blog here at Blogger. The app I've used on my various phones over the years has stopped being updated by Blogger. Thus, each time I try and post an update, the app crashes and I have to start over. So, please re-direct your reading to my new blog for all things Roth family at:

https://campingdad16.wordpress.com

Thanks again for your readership over the years. I hope to see you soon at the new Blog!

Campingdad

16

Today is another special day as we celebrate Andrew James turning 16!! Even though you won't be getting your licence for a few more weeks, I hope you still have a great day today. I love you and am so proud of you! Happy birthday son! 

AP Scholar

Congrats to Noah "Toby" Roth on the achievement of AP Scholar last year. The award was just announced last week. One of 18 at Frontier and 104 in the entire district. Congrats son. Let's do it again this year. You too Andrew! 

Oktobrewfest

Most of the family made it downtown last weekend for OktoBREWfest 2016. Pretty chilly that night as we met up with our friends the Woods. Coach and I even got a selfie with the band The Twirling Zucchinis! We have to remember to get VIP tasting tent tickets next year. Much better deal then GA. Someone please remind me! 

XC

Noah ran his final home meet of his season/career/life on Wednesday in Greeley. Grandma and Grandpa Roth made a very brief (2 1/2 hour) appearance in Greeley to cheer the team on. Noah ran a solid 22:22. And just like that, Noah is almost done running in high school. He will have one final meet in Brush next week. So proud of the work he did over the last 4 years. We even managed to sneak in a pizza dinner before youth group.