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Friday, August 20, 2010

Catching up

Here are some pictures from the 4th of July.

Will and I getting into the American spirit

We ran the Erie Firecracker 4k with some friends. Jen, me, Lisa, Karen.

The kids enjoyed post-race popsicles. Megan and Will are wearing numbers because they "ran" in the kids race.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Calgary/ Banff/ Lake Louise

David and I were very fortunate to be able to take a vacation last week to Canada. My mom came from Oklahoma to hang out with Will for the week. We had the most amazing time! It's gorgeous up there!!

We arrived in Calgary on Thursday evening. David's bag decided to stay in Colorado for a few extra hours so we had to fill out paperwork to have it delivered to our hotel. After completing that and going through customs, we were on vacation! The first 2 nights we stayed in downtown Calgary. It's very similar to Denver. Thursday night we walked around downtown and had dinner. Since Calgary is so far north, the sun doesn' set until about 10:30pm. That took some getting used to! Friday we went to the Calgary Tower (not as cool as the CN Tower in Toronto) and spent the rest of the day relaxing and sleeping in the hotel. I took a 3 hour nap! Friday night we met my cousin Matt and his girlfriend for dinner. It was great to catch up with him and they gave us great tourist info. We finished dinner around 9:30pm and since it was still light out, David and I explored more of the downtown. Then we went to the hotel and watch a movie. It started to get dark around 10:45pm and I happened to look out the window just in time to see a shooting star go by. It was so close to us and was extremily bright. It was the highlight of our time in Calgary!

Saturday we slept in and drove up to Banff. It was about an hour drive through gorgeous mountains. The mountains up there look different from the ones here. David said they are more "dramatic". Banff is the cutest town with a main street full of restaurants and stores. My mom mentioned liking a gemstone called Ammolite so we spent alot of time looking for the perfect present for her (and me!). We bought her a necklace and I got a ring. Ammolite is only found in Alberta and is the rarest gemstone in the world. The mines will be gone by the year 2012. So it's an investment piece :) After shopping, we went to the Fairmont Castle. It's actually a huge castle built on the mountain with stunning views of the scenery. We spent a few hours having drinks on the patio.

Sunday we woke up early and drove to Lake Louise. Everyone told us that this area is gorgeous and they didn't lie. There are a bunch of glaciers in the area and the slit run-off makes the lake water turquiose. The pictures don't do it justice. We hiked to a tea house behind the lake (5.5 km each way). The weather was perfect! After the hike, we had drinks at the Lake Louise Chateau and people watched.

Monday we woke up early again and headed to the Columbia Icefields. It's a huge icefield that connects several glaciers together. It was interesting learning about glaciers. The ice we stood on was as thick as the Eiffel Tower is tall!

Monday night we stayed in a log cabin which was adorable! I wish we had had more time there, but it was the end of our vacation. We celebrated our anniversary (a month early, but oh well) by having a delicious dinner of bison tenderloin.

Tuesday we flew out of Canada and back to Colorado.

Will's vacation

Hi! This is Will. I know my mommy blogged about her vacation, but she forgot to mention what I did while they were away. My Grammie came to play with me for the week. She told me that my daddy was at work and that my mommy was shopping for no-nos (that's Will speak for sandals because you don't wear socks with them). They were both gone for a very long time! I cried a few times, but had alot of fun with Grammie.

Grammie gave me yummy snacks like crackers with cheese

She brought up my Mega Blocks from the basement and we played with them for a long time.

These are my friends Cat, Piggy, and Bear.

We did puzzles together

She bought me the coolest thing ever--a shopping cart! We shopped for hours!

I swam everyday in my pool

All my friends

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Happy Father's Day

I'm a little behind on my posts!

We had a wondeful day celebrating David. Will and I made him a Shutterfly photo book, which he loved. I also gave him and Will matching Colorado Rockies shirts to wear to the game that we went to on Father's Day. It was Will's first sporting event and he was very overwhelmed with all the poeple and noise. He loved clapping along with everyone when the Rockies' scored. I think his favorite part was eating ice cream out of a plastic helmet.

Friday, June 4, 2010

Carrie Underwood

Last night my friend Karen and I went to the Carrie Underwood concert. This is the second time I've seen her and I just love her!! She has so much energy when she performs and likes to talk to the audience. Our seats were on the floor so I was able to sneak up front and take a few pictures. The coolest part was that she rode on a car attached to the ceiling and performed a song right above us!

She was right above us! I've never been that close to a celeb before! I could even see her massive engagement ring!

Memorial Day fun!

We had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! Meagan and Rhett flew in from London, Pam and my mom flew in from Tulsa, and my dad drove from Tulsa. Will didn't know what to do with all the attention! I think he was over kisses by day 2 :)

Meagan arrived on Monday and stayed with us for a week. We went to the mall, park, zoo and out to eat with her. Will loved spending time with her! Rhett flew in on Thursday and spent most of his time at the urgent care center due to an infected bug bite. He and Meagan spent most of the vacation going to places that aren't in London (Sonic, mexican restaurants, Target).

On Saturday, my friends and I organized a bbq for all the families. The day started out nice, but by the time we were ready to go swimming, it was cold and rainy. But it was fun to hang out with everyone.

Sunday was a beautiful day and we all went down to Pearl Street to walk around the Boulder Creek Festival.

The reason everyone came to visit was because of the Bolder Boulder which was on Memorial Day. This is the 4th year we have had family come out for it. I usually start training for it in Jan, but wasn't very into it this year so I didn't train at all. With that said, I was very happy with my 80 min finish. David ran the 10k in 59 mins!! Crazy boy!