Dad Visits

Here are a few pics from when my dad came out and visited a few weeks ago. We had a great time skiing, hiking, relaxing and eating good food. Check out some of the crazy skiing we did on this trip up...Pretty intense. Some of the best snow ever though and a great couple days in the mountains.

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Ice Fishing

This weekend myself and a couple buddies went and did the ultimate winter sport...Ice fishing. This is my third attempt at ice fishing and the last two time resulted in no catch. Ice fishing gets a little difficult when you can't feel your hands or feet and you aren't catching fish :-) This time we went to a lake that took us 3 hours to get to, but resulted in a rewarding ice fishing experience. Between the 5 of us we each caught nearly 40 fish in the day and a half we were there. Not too shabby. We nearly got stuck in a snow storm that dumped about a foot of snow on us overnight while we were up there. The park rangers told us they expected about 1 inch of snow....apparently they use different rulers than we do. It was a great time though. It's pretty sweet have a fish come flying out of a little 6 inch round hole in the ice. Things started out a little slow, but then once we started hooking them up they were flying out of the ice all over the place. It was a great time. Come visit us in Colorado sometime and maybe we can plan a trip out on the ice :-)

The early morning after the storm the skies were clear and it was beautiful.

Check out some of these other pictures from the trip...

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Christmas in California...

not exactly a white Christmas :-) We got to go visit family in CA for Christmas this year and had a really nice time. It was a nice get away. We went and checked out Universal Studios the first day we got there..and of course made a required stop at the must-have In-n-out Burger. It was nice to have a day when the two of us could just hang out. We caught with a couple of our college roomates for dinner at Tony Romas. It was nice to catch up with them.


A highlight of the trip was going to a dedication service with our cousins and our new God-child. We are honored to have been asked to be God-parents for our cousins daughter. It was nice getting to see a lot of family that we hadn't seen for maybe a year or so on this trip...especially our Texas cousins.

We headed up to the banksons in the desert and spent the week up there. It was a really nice time checking out Christmas lights (the most amazing display we've ever seen down in Rancho Cucamonga), playing Wii sports, flying those little remote control helocopters (they are REALLY hard to control, but a lot of fun) and spending time with the whole family. The only unforunate thing was that we did miss the white christmas (actually snowing on christmas day) in denver that only happens about once every 13 years. Oh well...guess that means we need to stick around for a while for the next one.

We had a great time seeing our grandparents and all our aunts, uncles and cousins.

We also got to meet the newest addition to the family....Pearl. She has brought little doggy excitement to K & M's house. She was a lot of fun and liked to play with Molly (our 13 year old cocker spaniel) and about drove her nuts. That's alright though, Molly is pretty spoiled and needed somebody to give her some trouble.

Overall it was great trip and hopefully we can do it again soon. Maybe next year everyone should make a trip to CO...we think that's a good idea ;-)

(In case you are wondering why there aren't many names in the blog postings it is because this is all public and we want to be careful about announcing TOO much info :-) )

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Thanksgiving in Salt Lake

We headed out to Salt Lake for Thanksgiving this year and had a nice time being out of town for a few days. We got Kona a travel kennel that would fold up a little easier and fit in the car. She seems to like it :-)





Salt Lake was nice. It was pretty cold while we were there and we drove through quite a bit of snow to get there. It was nice to have the all wheel drive in the car though and we got across Colorado and Wyoming.







We took Kona with us and her and Joey had a good time playing together for the weekend. We took them for a walk in the 30 degree weather and they didn't seem to mind.



Thanksgiving day was full of lots of good food and fun with family. We ate, talked and played an exciting game of Guesstures. Made for a fun and relaxing time.



The rest of the weekend was full of baby showers and shopping (for the girls) and shooting and flying (for the boys). Sure was a good time and we enjoyed seeing all the family.


Today we got some of the first snow of the season. It's always exciting when the first storm rolls through. We're hoping to get some snowboarding in this weekend as the resorts have about 2 feet of fresh powder. Should be fun! We're looking forward to seeing more family and friends at Christmas in a few weeks when we head out to California. See a few of you soon!

Fall

So, I've been a little slow getting the blog post up the last couple weeks. Mostly because we haven't been up to a whole lot and I guess I could write about nothing, but nah.

We took the boat down to the Springs and put it away for the winter...it was sad to see it go, but at least we don't think about going to the lake everytime we walk into the garage now. If you look closely in the picture you can see a Kona appearance...it's always like where's Waldo :-)

We have had snow once so far this season and it wasn't very significant..maybe an inch. The weather has been beautiful (in the 70s) and we've been out hiking and enjoying the fall weather. This weekend we did one of our favorite hikes up Mount Sanitas in Boulder. It was a lot of fun.

This other picture is a shot from my office of a tree outside the window. With fall here the trees have been pretty colorful and this one has made for some nice scenery. I'm not sure what kind of tree it is, but when the leaves changed it had all the colors going at once...green, yellow, orange and red. Not a bad view. Kind of makes me appreciate the seasons some and enjoy fall.

Trip to Detroit to pick up the car

Well, we made it back from Detroit after a couple long days of driving. Things worked out great with the new car and we're excited about it. The trip to Michigan was pretty brutal. We left Denver at 12:45am on Friday morning, got into Detroit at 5:30am and met up with our guy to get the car at 8. Took care of business and hit the road at about 10. We made the 9 hour drive across Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and found a place to stay in Des Moines, Iowa for the night. We were both surprised at how nice Michigan was. We had always heard about how cold the winters are in Michigan, but that was about it. There were a lot of trees and lakes and it was very green. The trees were changing colors and we got to see some beautiful scenery as we made the drive toward Chicago.



After we made it out of that area and entered the plain states, we decided that the name 'plain' was appropriate. Not much to look at besides dead corn fields. So, we watched a couple movies on the laptop, listened to music and talked the rest of the trip away.

We got a chance to go visit some friends that just had twins recently and they were sporting some very nice blankets courtesy of Abby's grandma. Everybody says twins are a lot of work but we don't believe it...every time we go visit the twins just sleep the whole time. I think that maybe that's all they do.



Some of our other friends have a bouncing new baby boy that arrived this weekend. He is a pretty good looking little guy and also seems to do a lot of sleeping. It was a nice weekend, now back to work!

Relaxing Fall Weekend

This weekend was nice...we're between boating season and snowboard season and so for a few weekends in the fall and spring we get to relax. We got the boat shut down for the season on Saturday and did all the winterization that we needed to for it and then Saturday night we went to the Colin and Brad show at the Buell Theatre. These are the guys from Whose Line Is It Anyway? It was a good time. We went with Kyle and Melody, had dinner and then laughed for about 4 hours. Good times.


That's about all the excitement for this week. Thursday we head out to Detroit to pick up Abby's new ride...here are a couple pics...