10 years and counting

i can hardly believe it has been 10 years since i graduated from college, but what a great ten years it has been.  one of my favorite traditions of these years is getting together with my college girlfriends for our annual memorial day weekend trip.  this year we met up in asheville, north carolina for the long weekend and had 7 of the 11 girls and even two new babies.  it was one of our more beautiful settings (although all have been pretty awesome!) and we spent the weekend going for walks around the lake, playing mexican train and catching up.  i am already looking forward to next year's reunion whether it be east or west, beach or mountain - as long as i am with these girls it will be perfect!

the train!

baby kate playing with charlie rietz

out for mexican food and margaritas

The Big D

we spent a wonderful memorial day weekend back in the Big D with friends and family. it was a jam-packed fun weekend with family parties, a wedding, and my 6th annual "wake girls" weekend all in the mix. most of all, it was a weekend for Brooks to meet and greet in texas - he was a superstar!

Richard, Stefan & Brad at David Murrell's wedding.

Richard & Mimi Kathryn at a Memorial Day BBQ

Brooks & Mary

Baby George & Baby Brooks hanging out at the park

George, Xander, Ruby and Brooks all together for the first time

Brooks & his "aunt" Brooke

Brooks with Grandad and Mimi relaxing in the backyard

brooks loves the deacs!

go deacs! i know they are playing again today, but we had to take a moment to savor the sweet victory on wednesday over the blue devils. for brooks' first wake basketball game of his life, this was a good one!

reminicing back to a year ago, when little xander lewis watched the deacs beat duke in his first week too! how cool!?!

we don't have any little wake outfits yet, but i know brooks was still 100% for the deacons!

we also promise daddy that we will cheer for the rice owls with equal enthusiasm when baseball season comes around!

2008 - off to a GREAT start

We couldn't ask for a better way to bring in the end of 2007 than with an awesome win for the Deacs in the Mieneke Car Care Bowl! Go Deacs!

With the McCollums in from Dallas and Christy Parker here all the way from Denmark, we spent new year's up in Keystone at the Lewis's mountain house. Like a typical girls wake trip, we played lots of mexican train and laughed about old times. Only this time, we brought the boys along for the fun!

On New Year's Eve we braved -5* temperatures in River Run to see some great fireworks. While the Starbucks was out of almost every drink, some of us managed to warm up a little bit!


Happy 29th Em - what a great way to ring in the New Year!

Summer Lovin'

for all of you doubters out there...we're still blogging!

the last few weeks have been so great for us - many fun events and trips to bring in the summer here in denver (where the days are warm and the nights are cool and everyday makes us want to spend more time outside)

memorial day weekend was awesome for both of us...

for andrea, it was the 4th annual WFU girls weekend - this time in knoxville, tennessee. with the arrival of baby sam leonard, it only seemed fitting to spend the weekend at the luttrell's lake house. the weekend kept up the traditions of relaxing, having great conversations, and playing many rounds of mexican train!

for richard, the holiday weekend brought a beautiful mountain top wedding for our good friends robert and jill and a reunion with many southwestern med school friends. (side note...jill and andrea have the same birthday and both went to high school in roswell, ga! - what a small world)

also bringing in the summer for the fuquays...

richard's first 100 mile bike ride - the Elephant Rock Ride in Castle Rock, CO

and, a fun weekend bbq with our friends tamra, dan and their two precious girls, regan & tatem (regan loved the ice cream!).

we are looking forward to many great summer weekends....we'll keep you posted.