Monday, July 29, 2019

Summertime and The Living's Easy

We had a great week--kids had fun at camp, we celebrated Molly's 13th Birthday, and I had a nice weekend getaway with some girlfriends just outside of town.  No complaints here!
Once again, we decided another Birthday Party for Molly was in order. 
Moses has his party hat on, and is ready to PARTAY!

Where is my treat?


Let's get this party started!

I picked these up at Wag N Wash. 

Molly as we sang Happy Birthday to her because she is really a human and not a dog.


Oh yeah.


Good treats, Molly says.

Mosey waiting for his command to eat his muffin.





Look at the camera, Molly!

She is moving slower and slower these days.  I spend a lot of time cleaning her butt, and changing pads.  She still loves to eat, cuddle with us, and be on my feet while I work all day.  We know our days are running out with her, so we try and give her as much love as possible.

Fast forward to Friday night, and this was a tasty beer from a little place called Iron Tree in Florissant, Colorado.

Fried Pickles and Brussels Sprouts.

Grilled Chicken Salad--because those beer carbs will catch up to you fast!

Andrea's pizza.

Mac N Cheese!

This is Amy--her family owns the little cabin right close to Lake George.  She was making us a gourmet breakfast on Saturday by heating up breakfast sandwiches in the microwave.  Ha!

She thought it was funny I was taking pictures.

We got up bright and early to hit the Lost Creek Trail.   It is about 18 miles before it dead-ends, so we manged to make in it about 4.5 miles, and then 4.5 miles back. 

Beautiful weather and it was such a pretty hike.

Amy and my friend, Laura.

This was our goal--to make it to these old abandoned buildings.





After our 3.5 hour hike, we hit up one of my favorite breweries.  Paradox!

They have great sour beers. Although the service was sort of meh that day, the food and beer were delicious.


After lunch, we went back to the cabin for some beers and girl talk.

Oh, and cheese.  Blueberry cheese!

And things may have got silly.

Beautiful evening. 

And we laughed so hard we cried using the Snapchat filter that makes you look like a dude.
Amy as a dude:

Creepy me as a dude.

Laura as a dude.

Andrea as a dude.  So funny.

Next morning we sipped our coffee on the porch and contemplated never coming back to our children and the laundry list of items that we knew would be waiting for us when we got home.  Great little getaway!

The kids have one more week of camp, and then they are home with me until school starts on the 15th! Can't believe we have just a few more weeks of summer.  Katja and Jazelle are coming to visit this weekend. We are picking them up on Friday, and they head home on Monday.  We are planning on going to the Renaissance Festival in Larkspur as it has been YEARS since we have all gone.

Monday, July 22, 2019

Weekly Update

Well--not a good week for pictures. Can't plenty of food pictures! Just none of the kids.

They had a GREAT first week back at Go West Camp. The weather cooperated every day but one day, and they got their fill of mountain biking, paddle boarding, hiking, and doing all sorts of fun things to include making some new friends.

On Thursday evening I went with Larissa to The Roost Coffee House on our side of town for a "latte art throw-down" where different Barista's from different coffee shops around town competed for the best latte art out of foamed milk.  What did it mean for us?  LOTS of free beautiful lattes, food, and open bar!  I had to pinch myself to make sure I was still alive.  We had no idea what we were stumbling upon when we thought we would go check it out.


I'm standing right behind the 3 judges.

Hard to tell what is going on here...but the barista is foaming her milk and getting ready to pour.

All the unclaimed lattes.  As you can see--some are prettier than others.

Some of the damage we did--not all those coffee mugs are ours, although I did have a really tough time falling asleep that night!

This weekend we sort of chilled out. Saturday we did a bunch of yard work and stuff around the house.  On Sunday we went and saw the remake of The Lion King.  It was REALLY good!  Then, we grabbed our favorite salads at Modern Market.  A delicious way to end the weekend.


This week is a busy one.  Kids are in camp again, and we have some friends from Texas coming to town for a brief visit.  Then, I'm leaving Jeff and the kids behind for a Girls Weekend at my friend Amy's cabin outside of Woodland Park.  Looking forward to that very welcome break.