Scattering Sunshine

  SVU 2011 Volleyball after winning their first tournament   SVU Volleyball! Our new favorite team in the nation :) They've been doing great! Suffered the first losses of the season this weekend at a tournament in Lexington, but off to a great start.  Larissa absolutely loves the girls on this team and she's having a blast!   Rissy and teammates: Tori, Shyanne, Brynn, and Camille   These 4 girls are the only freshmen on the volleyball team - Camille (left) is from Utah, Morgan (in the back) is from good ole Sanford, Colorado, and Meghan (front) is from Massachusetts. They're headed to the football game :)

Thanks to Larissa, we noticed that the date today was 9, 10, 11 ... Did you?  :)  kinda fun, right? Here are some of our highlights: Cade is #31 - This 18 second clip shows him completing his first minor league pass for a TD!  This one shows Cade (#31) running around the defensive line and into the endzone for a 2 point conversion. Pretty fun way to start a Saturday morning! :)    Taysa, Cade, and a few puppies 9/10/11 We occasionally flood irrigate our lawn, when Larry has water for the hay field. This is Taysa and Cade enjoying the standing water with a few puppies. This was a tree removal project that the kids ... "helped" with. This poor tree was huge, at the edge of the driveway, and seemed healthy until last year. Then it very suddenly and completely died.  :(  so sad. 

Tallest to Shortest . . . .? How many "New Year's" opportunities do we really have??  There's the obvious January 1st, but then for people like us who work for the government, there is the fiscal new year as well. That's when we get the new insurance cards, and the paycheck comes on July 1 instead of June 30th. (This is because some genius in the Colorado government a few years ago discovered that they could balance the budget one year by pushing all of the state employee paychecks into the next fiscal year. . . . Enough said. If I start rambling about politics, this post will get way more off track than it already is.) Anyway, THIS time of year is another "new year" because, of course, we're all starting a new school year!!  And yes, I do mean WE. All of the Conger's are currently enrolled in school full time. Larry is the only one who doesn't actually attend class, write papers, or take tests ... but we'll give him credit for part...