"Spring" in Denver

While locals say Colorado has a Spring Season, we're not quite sure. One day it's 75 and sunny, and the next you have highs in the 30s with 2 inches of snow! I don't call that spring!

But, the last few weeks have been great and we've enjoyed fixing up our yard, watching flowers begin to bloom, and taking walks into the late light evenings.

Earlier this month, we had both of our mom's out to denver for Mother's Day weekend and had a great time together. We ate great food at Table 6 and Crepes & Crepes, researched flowers and shrubs at Paulino Gardens and took lots of great dog walks in the neighborhood.

Also, Richard finally caught up to me in years! Happy 29th Ricardo! His favorite 5 weeks of the year being younger than me are finally over!

4 years skiing...

The 4th annual family ski trip - it gets better and better every year!

2008 brought the family to Keystone, Colorado for 5 days of skiing, great food and fun games. This year we added bridge to the list and Joellynn & Trey were quick studies to keep the game going well into the night. We had 3 great days on the slopes and enjoyed apres ski at the Kickapoo nearly every afternoon. We're already looking forward to the 5th annual trip in 2009!

As usual, we had a visitor join our family ski trip for a day - this year it was Brad Garrison from Dallas. We had a blast watching Brad snowboard - much improved from 2 years ago when we last were in Colorado together. Below we had to give a thumbs up to a great day on the slopes - it would have only been better if Lindsay could have been there too.

we love the pups

no real event here...just some cute pics of our pups!

enjoy!

This really was my first rodeo!

how cool is the rodeo?!?

we went a couple of weeks ago to the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo here in Denver with the Mitchells and the Lokeys - what a random friday night! the mutton bustin' was my favorite, where they put little kids on the back of a sheep wearing pads and a helmet (the kids, not the sheep). whoever stays on the longest wins! i really wanted to give it a try!

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!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas 2007!

The Fuquays and Schulzs joined us in Denver for Christmas again this year, and we all had a great time for about five days at our new house. The dogs were spoiled with all the love from our visitors, and we were spoiled with great food, great gifts and great company.

We also had a quick trip to Breckenridge for the day to ski. Unfortunately, the cold temps and 40 mile an hour winds made for a short day on the slopes! We headed home for warm food and more rounds of Bananagrams (like speed scrabble - check it out!).

December in Denver

December was a great month in Denver with a little snow and a lot of great time with friends.

We had a fun night out with the Lewises and Cahills in Larimer Square and the 16th Street Mall walking and looking at all the great downtown decorations and holiday lights. We ended the evening out at the famous Brown Palace Hotel - so pretty!

We also hit the slopes in Vail for a fun weekend of skiing with Matt Talley and his fiancee Anne and her family. While pretty cold, it was a great time and also a great dinner Saturday night at Sapphire! Yum Yum!