formatting issues.
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oh yeah that format did not turn out well. sorry, but i don't feel like going back and changing it. or maybe i will, and just do 2 pictures per line instead of 3. i think i need to find a 2-column format for my blog instead of this unnecessary 3-column nonsense. it makes the actual blog column way too narrow.
vacay pics and planning
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summer
oh! i forgot to post pics from our vacations thus far - i got them uploaded and into an album on facebook last week. i'm clearly not going to re-post here the 40+ that i put on fb, so if you want to see the whole shebang, go there. here's a selection of my favorites for now:
(above: us with the beautiful sunset on hwy 50, the rainy gondola ride down into telluride)
(above: us with the beautiful sunset on hwy 50, the rainy gondola ride down into telluride)
(above: sunset at the bluegrass fest, all of our gear for camping that weekend)
(above: my dad and mom during their visit with us the weekend after telluride.)
good times! hopefully the formatting will work with those pics ... it's so hard to tell sometimes.
scott ended up being sick all weekend - i counted last night, and i think he spent something like 20 hours in bed between 1pm saturday and 8pm sunday. he was feeling mostly better this morning, though, and went to work. i'm crossing my fingers that the worst is over with, and also that i don't get sick!
this next weekend is our mt. elbert adventure, which i'm getting really excited about. i think it'd be super fun to summit it - it is the tallest 14er in the state, but also one of the easiest, or so i've heard - but if we don't make it, it's not the end of the world. we can still enjoy a good hike. friday is whitewater rafting, which scott still doesn't know about, so shhhh! i was very proud of myself - i was at target last night picking up more advil for scott, and decided to take a look at their activewear, since all of my normal active stuff is all cotton, which is very comfy, but not so good for a river situation. i found a good inexpensive pair of workout shorts and a cute duo-dry tank top (that i'm still debating - it'd be fine with a swim suit top on the river, but wouldn't necessarily work with a sports bra for general working out) for myself, and even found a duo-dry t-shirt for scott to go with his board shorts. i am quite positive that i can sneak all of it into our luggage to have it ready to change into when we get to the rafting place. while i definitely prefer to know that a surprise is coming so i can anticipate it, i think scott will be quite thrilled. my plan is to just give scott directions from denver straight to the rafting place on friday, although i'm not quite sure how i'm going to get him out of the house that early in the morning ... we need to leave by 7ish to get there by 10 with time to spare. i think as long as we have all of our stuff packed and maybe even in the car by thursday night it shouldn't be too bad. i might need to come up with an excuse for the early morning on our day off, though - any suggestions? i also need to come up with a menu for the weekend - our cabin has a full kitchen, so we can make our own dinners and whatnot. i think i'll try and pre-make some easily heated things like enchiladas that we can just throw in the oven in the evenings. fun fun. i love summer!!!
good times! hopefully the formatting will work with those pics ... it's so hard to tell sometimes.
scott ended up being sick all weekend - i counted last night, and i think he spent something like 20 hours in bed between 1pm saturday and 8pm sunday. he was feeling mostly better this morning, though, and went to work. i'm crossing my fingers that the worst is over with, and also that i don't get sick!
this next weekend is our mt. elbert adventure, which i'm getting really excited about. i think it'd be super fun to summit it - it is the tallest 14er in the state, but also one of the easiest, or so i've heard - but if we don't make it, it's not the end of the world. we can still enjoy a good hike. friday is whitewater rafting, which scott still doesn't know about, so shhhh! i was very proud of myself - i was at target last night picking up more advil for scott, and decided to take a look at their activewear, since all of my normal active stuff is all cotton, which is very comfy, but not so good for a river situation. i found a good inexpensive pair of workout shorts and a cute duo-dry tank top (that i'm still debating - it'd be fine with a swim suit top on the river, but wouldn't necessarily work with a sports bra for general working out) for myself, and even found a duo-dry t-shirt for scott to go with his board shorts. i am quite positive that i can sneak all of it into our luggage to have it ready to change into when we get to the rafting place. while i definitely prefer to know that a surprise is coming so i can anticipate it, i think scott will be quite thrilled. my plan is to just give scott directions from denver straight to the rafting place on friday, although i'm not quite sure how i'm going to get him out of the house that early in the morning ... we need to leave by 7ish to get there by 10 with time to spare. i think as long as we have all of our stuff packed and maybe even in the car by thursday night it shouldn't be too bad. i might need to come up with an excuse for the early morning on our day off, though - any suggestions? i also need to come up with a menu for the weekend - our cabin has a full kitchen, so we can make our own dinners and whatnot. i think i'll try and pre-make some easily heated things like enchiladas that we can just throw in the oven in the evenings. fun fun. i love summer!!!
saturday night at home
we're enjoying a good weekend for the most part. last night, we took goo to black hawk (a casino town just outside of denver) as a birthday present. we meant to take her last year, but house crises intervened (i think that was the night the hose in our bathroom burst and flooded the room), so we did it for her 22nd birthday instead. we had fun hanging out, but i think goo and i quickly realized we aren't gamblers. it just seems like such a waste of money: sure you have the chance to win big, but you also have the chance of going home with nothing. if you don't gamble and just keep the money you came with, you're guaranteed to not lose it! i did mostly penny slots with a little bit of quarter video poker thrown in - gambled $7 and at the end of the night was down $3.68, which wasn't bad. just this month black hawk started doing more table games like craps and roulette, but there weren't that many tables with them yet, and they all had the minimum buy in of $5. whatever, i enjoyed the experience, and i think i'm good to go with having my gambling fix for, you know, life. and i still have zero desire to ever go to las vegas.
today was fun for me, slightly less so for scott. our good friends lori and aaron who moved to mexico to teach two years ago are finally back in colorado, so they and their three month old daughter clara, and mike and maura and kinley all came over for lunch and hanging out - we were tentatively planning to go hiking down in roxborough. while he was at men's group this morning, though, scott started feeling sick. he laid down for a few minutes before everyone got here, made it through most of lunch (but didn't eat anything), and then came inside and went to bed for almost 5 hours while the rest of us hung out. i think he's feeling a little better now, but we're cancelling our plans to play kickball with friends tomorrow. all that to say, though, it was really fun getting to see lori and aaron and meet their sweet (and very pudgy) baby girl. i'm glad to have them back nearby.
i think scott and i are heading to blockbuster to pick up a movie for tonight. we're still in the midst of our no-tv month, and it's been really good for us, but a) movies don't really entirely count, and b) scott's sick and i think having something to do while lounging around will be good. it's really interesting to realize how much we - who really don't even watch that much tv - use it to sort of fill the void, or just provide background, or let us just veg. i don't think tv's bad, but i think this month is a great exercise in making us realize how many other things there are to do at night. and in making us realize how much we tend to rely on tv - for instance, dinner's ready, so we both grab our plates and start to head to the basement to watch some tv while we eat. instead, we've been sitting outside on the patio and talking and enjoying the fresh air. two weeks down, three to go.
today was fun for me, slightly less so for scott. our good friends lori and aaron who moved to mexico to teach two years ago are finally back in colorado, so they and their three month old daughter clara, and mike and maura and kinley all came over for lunch and hanging out - we were tentatively planning to go hiking down in roxborough. while he was at men's group this morning, though, scott started feeling sick. he laid down for a few minutes before everyone got here, made it through most of lunch (but didn't eat anything), and then came inside and went to bed for almost 5 hours while the rest of us hung out. i think he's feeling a little better now, but we're cancelling our plans to play kickball with friends tomorrow. all that to say, though, it was really fun getting to see lori and aaron and meet their sweet (and very pudgy) baby girl. i'm glad to have them back nearby.
i think scott and i are heading to blockbuster to pick up a movie for tonight. we're still in the midst of our no-tv month, and it's been really good for us, but a) movies don't really entirely count, and b) scott's sick and i think having something to do while lounging around will be good. it's really interesting to realize how much we - who really don't even watch that much tv - use it to sort of fill the void, or just provide background, or let us just veg. i don't think tv's bad, but i think this month is a great exercise in making us realize how many other things there are to do at night. and in making us realize how much we tend to rely on tv - for instance, dinner's ready, so we both grab our plates and start to head to the basement to watch some tv while we eat. instead, we've been sitting outside on the patio and talking and enjoying the fresh air. two weeks down, three to go.
i'm so excited! (genuinely, not channeling jessie spano)
our 4th of july weekend was fun - lots of hanging out with friends and eating food that we didn't cook and lounging around. i did get a sunburn on friday because i decided it would be fun to lay out and tan, but skipped the sunscreen step. it wasn't that bad of a burn, though, and thanks to my constant aloe-ing, is mostly gone by now.
but what has me tremendously excited, though, is labor day weekend. yes, we have tons of fun just-us stuff planned this summer in colorado - mt. elbert and steamboat this month, camping with our sunday school class next month. but labor day weekend is when our good from andrew from college is getting married. it's been kind of a whirlwind romance - andrew and his fiancee met last fall when he moved back to the midwest for grad school, started dating last winter, and are now engaged to be married this fall. it'll be fun to meet the girl of his dreams, but the best and most thrilling part is that almost all of our good college friends will be there! two sets of friends will be bringing brand new babies - they're both due around the beginning of august, so depending on when the kids come, caleb and abba's axel and keith and amy's tbd will be 2-6 weeks old. not only that, but we haven't seen most of these people since our own wedding almost 4 years ago! it's going to be like a mini-reunion, and it's going to be fantastic. i've already started looking at dresses. (by which i mean, i was shopping for swimsuits at kohl's last week and walked past a dress that i thought was really cute, and then tried it on when i went back with scott this weekend to buy him shorts.) this is a fabulous summer!!!
but what has me tremendously excited, though, is labor day weekend. yes, we have tons of fun just-us stuff planned this summer in colorado - mt. elbert and steamboat this month, camping with our sunday school class next month. but labor day weekend is when our good from andrew from college is getting married. it's been kind of a whirlwind romance - andrew and his fiancee met last fall when he moved back to the midwest for grad school, started dating last winter, and are now engaged to be married this fall. it'll be fun to meet the girl of his dreams, but the best and most thrilling part is that almost all of our good college friends will be there! two sets of friends will be bringing brand new babies - they're both due around the beginning of august, so depending on when the kids come, caleb and abba's axel and keith and amy's tbd will be 2-6 weeks old. not only that, but we haven't seen most of these people since our own wedding almost 4 years ago! it's going to be like a mini-reunion, and it's going to be fantastic. i've already started looking at dresses. (by which i mean, i was shopping for swimsuits at kohl's last week and walked past a dress that i thought was really cute, and then tried it on when i went back with scott this weekend to buy him shorts.) this is a fabulous summer!!!
how is it july already?
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labels:
photography,
summer
thus begins our tv-free month. we talked about cancelling cable for the summer since nothing's on, which spiraled into the idea of just ditching tv for the month of july. last night scott helped a friend move and i went swimsuit shopping, but we got in an episode of the closer and one everybody loves raymond before turning it off. i'm excited for us. i don't think we've ever done a tv-free month - scott did a sports-free month a few years ago - so it'll be a learning/growing experience for sure. one of our goals for the summer was to start reading the bible more together, so i think this will help us get in the swing of things. plus we have yard work, sunshine to enjoy, a pool to go to, plenty of fun things to do in denver ... and two vacations this month. (we also need to figure out how to limit internet for the month too, since it would make no sense to turn off the tv but still be camped in front of our computers all month ... maybe just e-mail at home and that's it? tbd.)
the weekend with my parents was really fun! we finally drove the length of guanella pass, which was beautiful, went to the botanic gardens, took in a free jazz concert at city park, grilled out and enjoyed our new patio set, and played a few rounds of boggle and scrabble (i won them all, of course). i took plenty of great photos, which are currently sitting on my laptop at home (with the bluegrass fest pics) waiting for me to sift through them and get them posted. maybe i'll do that at work tomorrow since no one will be in the office ...
speaking of photos, my dad brought his dslr out and let me play with it a bit. i've been wanting a dslr for a while, but have never used one before, so he explained some of the iso and aperture settings to me - fascinating stuff, let me tell you. since things often make more sense to me if i can either write them down or see them in writing, i went over to check out the pioneer woman's photography blog to see what she had to say. lo and behold, there's an entire section dedicating to dumbing down cool manual settings. as i was looking at my dad's camera this weekend, i had sudden realization that my point-and-shoot camera has some of those very same manual settings! since i do not have $800 stashed away to drop on a dslr at the moment, my plan is to see what i fun things i can do with my current camera while saving my spare pennies and trying to soften scott up to the idea of buying me a super nice camera. obviously there are limitations to my point-and-shoot, such as not being able to switch lenses, but i can at least teach myself the basics in the meantime. i think i do need to upgrade my memory card, though, since i'm still using the 256mb card the camera came with. oh 2004.
the weekend with my parents was really fun! we finally drove the length of guanella pass, which was beautiful, went to the botanic gardens, took in a free jazz concert at city park, grilled out and enjoyed our new patio set, and played a few rounds of boggle and scrabble (i won them all, of course). i took plenty of great photos, which are currently sitting on my laptop at home (with the bluegrass fest pics) waiting for me to sift through them and get them posted. maybe i'll do that at work tomorrow since no one will be in the office ...
speaking of photos, my dad brought his dslr out and let me play with it a bit. i've been wanting a dslr for a while, but have never used one before, so he explained some of the iso and aperture settings to me - fascinating stuff, let me tell you. since things often make more sense to me if i can either write them down or see them in writing, i went over to check out the pioneer woman's photography blog to see what she had to say. lo and behold, there's an entire section dedicating to dumbing down cool manual settings. as i was looking at my dad's camera this weekend, i had sudden realization that my point-and-shoot camera has some of those very same manual settings! since i do not have $800 stashed away to drop on a dslr at the moment, my plan is to see what i fun things i can do with my current camera while saving my spare pennies and trying to soften scott up to the idea of buying me a super nice camera. obviously there are limitations to my point-and-shoot, such as not being able to switch lenses, but i can at least teach myself the basics in the meantime. i think i do need to upgrade my memory card, though, since i'm still using the 256mb card the camera came with. oh 2004.
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