This past weekend we went on a new adventure. Jason and I were invited to join four other couples for an overnight excursion to a backcountry hut. Believe it or not, even in late April there is still enough snow at the higher elevations for snow shoeing. The weather could not have been more perfect – [...]
Categories: Colorado,Exercise,Friends & Family,Travel
Happy Earth Day, earthlings! Today is one of my favorite holidays because it provides an opportunity to give thanks to Mother Earth for her abundant blessings (fresh air! clean water!) and demonstrate support for environmental protection. It’s a perfect time to reevaluate your habits and consider making changes to become more eco-friendly. Don’t forget to [...]
I’m still alive, promise! December almost swallowed me whole, though. Let’s see if I can remember some of the highlights. Well, I turned another year wiser on December 19th. I celebrated my special day in the hospital with my dad who was there getting a brand new hip. The best gift of all was that [...]
Categories: Colorado,Friends & Family,Holidays,Travel
Whew, I finally finished our photo album from our Montana trip this summer! It turned out to be a big task considering we took several hundred photos. Even after I deleted the duplicates and crappy ones, I still had about 500 photos left to work with. Needless to say, it turned into a much bigger [...]
Categories: Montana,Organization,Travel
Jason was in Denver last week at a conference for school, so I flew in after work on Friday to meet up with him. Fall is my favorite time of year in Colorado (well, pretty much my favorite time of year anywhere). The weather was glorious with highs in the low 70′s up in the [...]
Categories: Colorado,Friends & Family,Travel
Well, we’re back in the flatlands. Our trip home from Montana wasn’t nearly as eventful as the trip getting there. Thank goodness there were no tow trucks required this time around! By the time we pulled into our driveway in Oklahoma, we had put almost 5,500 miles on Susie and her new car smell had been [...]
Categories: Fashion,Favorite Things,Gifts,Montana,Travel
We saved the best for our last weekend in Montana – Glacier National Park! Since we had both taken Friday off from work, we left Billings Thursday evening and drove to Missoula which is about five hours away. On the way, we stopped in Bozeman to grab dinner and discovered that the Sweet Pea Festival [...]
Categories: Friends & Family,Montana,Travel
This past weekend we headed to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to check out the magnificent Teton mountain range. It’s still about a six hour drive from Billings, but we figured that was a heck of a lot closer than making the trip to Wyoming from Oklahoma! We left after work on Friday and didn’t arrive until [...]
Categories: Friends & Family,Montana,Travel
Although every week in Montana has been full of adventures, this is the week we have been looking forward to the most. My family traveled up from San Antonio for a visit and to explore Yellowstone National Park with us! We stayed outside the park in a cabin on the Yellowstone River between Livingston and [...]
Categories: Friends & Family,Montana,Travel
While it’s tough to top our action-packed first week in Montana, our second week here will go down as a memorable one as well. We are beginning to feel settled now….at least as settled as you can be while living 1,240 miles from your own bed. During the week, we don’t get to explore much [...]
Categories: Friends & Family,Montana,Travel