As it flurried we began our drive back to WY. But we weren't on I25 long when we noted a sign. It said that the highway was closed due to weather at the last exit in Colorado. Oh no! What to do? Well it was Valentine's Day after all, so what better way to enjoy the evening than with a hotel room and an evening in....LOVEland, Colorado! We enjoyed an evening of strolling through the shops they had there, then back to the room for a yummy junk food dinner.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
"Valentine's Day" or "Romantic Getaway Caused by Snow" - by Guest Writer Kevin
It was Valentine's Day, you can tell by the blue I have on. It was also the day before Christie's birthday and so her present from her fiance Steve was a little skydiving fun. We all went to an indoor skydiving place in Denver. After a video and a little training we suited up to fly!
Steve and Christie getting suited up.
After our class had been fully trained and set, we flew in a 120 MPH wind tunnel. Or in my case fell up, rather than flew.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
New Home Away From Home
Shortly after getting back from Christmas break, Kevin and I found a much more suitable home away from home. Here's the view from the front door.
This is the guest room at the front of the house (first door on the left in the picture above). Scarlett thinks its her room.
Here's the hall bath. It attaches to the guest room also, which is a nice feature. And the newspaper ad wallpaper provides reading material.
The living room stays nice and bright thanks to the skylights (and will probably keep it rather warm in the summer).
Here's the dining area and kitchen. Please note the fancy schmancy counter top grill unit. Oh and the mirror above the sink. I can't go into the kitchen without seeing myself - that's probably a good thing.
This is a basement bedroom. We're using it as the office/craft room. And its been fully unpacked now.
Here's Kevin's new (to us) bar. We don't have a mancave in this house, instead Kevin got a media room.
Here's the basement bathroom. The wallpaper isn't nearly so entertaining in here.
But Scarlett likes to use the sink has her hot tub.
Finally, there's a store room in the basement as well. It could easily be made into another bedroom, but we're glad its storage - we needed the space for throwing stuff.
Random Cheesehead Cat! Brett Favre would be proud. Or he would have been last year, anyway.
Also, Scarlett and Col Turtle are having an illicit affair. We're saving this photo so she can blackmail him later.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Is it Too Late to Late to Tell You About Christmas?
We've been a bit neglectful of the blog...
So here's the house in Maryland all trussed up for Christmas...please note my obsessive need to match my wrapping paper to my decorations.
Blame the woman in the corner here (artfully arranging the presents)...also please note that sadly, this was a year that we "cut back" - but the family is large
So here's the house in Maryland all trussed up for Christmas...please note my obsessive need to match my wrapping paper to my decorations.
Blame the woman in the corner here (artfully arranging the presents)...also please note that sadly, this was a year that we "cut back" - but the family is large
Here's Dad getting ready to open his Victoria's Secret box. He was a bit nervous - afraid that we got him the wrong size.
Both Kevin and my parents got me Christmas china! Here's the table all prettied up for Christmas supper. I made roast hoo-beast
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