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Family Summer Bucket List

Summer Bucket List Krista Montalvo

This summer our family decided to make a bucket list to hang on our fridge.  When we can’t think of something to do, we can look to our list to make sure we all have the best summer ever.  We all sat around our dinner table last night and discussed all the things that...
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Mack’s Family Entertainment Center

Mack's Family Entertainment Center

Yesterday we finally visited the much raved about Mack’s Family Entertainment. Right next to San Juan Cinema in Montrose, Mack’s is packed with fun options around every corner. Below, you can see the variety of activities available to kids. Obstacle courses, climbing, sliding, a slack line, a car that goes down a ramp that...
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Spring Break in Western Colorado (and Beyond!)

Photo Credits Jump America

For those of you going somewhere exciting, I’m jealous! I have a wicked case of cabin fever. Nearly everyone we know is heading south, or west, or somewhere. This year we are hanging out at home because we started a couple of large home projects that we are determined to finish up by the...
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43 Cents

43 Cents

  While out wandering a small town, I discovered this old abandoned gas pump sitting behind a building.  Immediately drawn to the decay and the rust, I began snapping away.  It was until much later I took a closer look at the print and realized this pump wasn’t even designed for a purchase higher...
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28 Days of Generosity: Join the Community Experiment

28 Days of Generosity: Join the Community Experiment

“What could happen if we join together as a community in 28 days of generosity?”   Montrose Community Foundation has launched a 28 day experiment in generosity during the month of February.   What a fantastic idea! We all know how good it feels to share, to give, to be generous to family, friends,...
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Outdoor Winter Activities with Kids

Ice Skating on the Canal

Before I had children I used to downhill ski about 40 days a season.  After children I was lucky to get a couple days in a season.  Plus, my first child would cry and cry after 30 minutes in the cold.  I am the outdoorsy type so it was awful feeling trapped inside.  Luckily...
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Ouray Ice Festival 2013

Ouray Ice Festival

Kids growing up in the US today will share many similar childhood experiences. Most will have grown up with SpongeBob and Dora. Most will have played in soccer leagues or on basketball teams. But there will always be certain experiences that are unique to the specific areas in which a child grew up. These...
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The Nutcracker

Weehawken Creative Arts The Nutcracker

Updated! You can read below about last year’s performance of The Nutcracker, produced by Weehawken Creative Arts. Tickets are now on sale for this weekend. ———————————————- 120 dancers ages two and up from Ridgway, Ouray, Montrose, Placerville, Telluride and Norwood performed this weekend in Weehawken Creative Arts’s magical performance of The Nutcracker at the...
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Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt

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