Colorado trip

Steve and I flew out to Colorado for a wedding. Steve's cousin got married, and we were really excited to be able to attend, and spend time with everyone. It was a super short trip, but we had a great time. Here are some highlights: Steve's sister Laura and her husband Cordelle

Me and Steve


The newlyweds


Grandma and Grandpa


Steve's Mom and Dad - soon to be grandma and grandpa!! :) (thanks to Steve's brother, not us!)


A brief appearance on the dance floor


Chillin' outside. The weather was beautiful.

Snuggling with the kitty


Brian riding


Taylor showed off her stuff


Eric showing off his stuff


We got to celebrate Kyl's 18th and Brian's 12th


And then we all crashed :)

All of the pics will be posted here as soon as I can get them all up... it might take me a few days.

critters

I'm not a fan of jumping things. Flying things either. But I have enjoyed taking pictures of these critters that I've come across in the past week. Just as long as they keep their distance and don't try any jumping. Or flying. Not around me.


This little guy hung out on our grill the whole time I cooked up dinner. After dinner I asked Steve how I should get him off of there... hint, hint. Steve said "just push him off". Yeah, right.


I went out for a run one evening and thought that the grasshopper sitting on our welcome mat was kind of ironic.

Can you tell I just got a new camera? :)

phew!

It's been a crazy month, and it's not over yet! The past couple of weeks and weekends have been busy, as the mountain of laundry that I tackled on Saturday will attest to. And the week nights had all filled up as well. I'm looking forward to October and November, as my calendar for those months is pretty clear so far. It makes me happy to flip forward a few weeks and not see so many things blocking chunks of time off.

This week will be a short one for us, as we're flying out to Denver on Friday morning. Actually, I should say in the middle of the night Thursday night/Friday morning, but that's a different post, about how unfair it is that airlines are free to change the time of your departure by hours, and not give a second thought to how this might effect your plans. (is it affect or effect? I never know...) Anyway, let's just say I'd never buy a plane ticket that leaves that early, but apparently I did without even knowing what I was doing. Ahh, where was I going? Oh yeah, this week will be short, but very nice. It's season premier week, people. There are a few that I'm looking forward to quite a bit. It will be nice to have some new episodes on tv for once, and a little bit of free time to watch them every once in a while :) Enjoy your week!

introducing

My new toy! Steve actually bought it for me; he surprised me. I guess I'd been talking about it so much he knew exactly which one I wanted, and why. Poor guy, he probably just wanted to stop the rambling, haha :) I'm super excited!! The band is playing next Saturday night, and I can't wait to compare pics taken with the new camera to pics taken with my previous, aggravating point and click camera.

I'll just have Jay answer your question, Holly. :)

Labor day in the Carolinas

I didn't take too many pictures over the weekend. I guess we were too busy relaxing :) But we had a fun trip to my parent's house. We got to see their new place, and meet some of their friends. Here are a few of the pictures that I did take.

I think this is funny, I put them side by side. The first is before Jay paused his movie.
Here we are by the pool, the best way to enjoy the heat.
This is their back yard as seen from their main level porch. That's the boat dock in the background. We did have a fun day out on the boat and managed not to get too sunburned :)
We wish the drive were closer, but it was a fun weekend. It's nice to have a few days of laziness.

Disappointment

Disappoint, \ˌdis-ə-ˈpȯint\, to fail to meet the expectation or hope of : frustrate.

Yesterday we had the first major rainfall since our basement work was completed.



3 of the cracks leaked constantly. As in dripping water to the floor. We're trying to get in touch with them again. Not sure what the next step is. I was slightly concerned with how the fix was going to work as they were working on it, but figured that they were the experts and the ones pouring the money into it, and they should know. Bummer.