I think pictures show our trip the best.. so here you are (and if you think this is a lot of pictures, just keep in mind I picked out the best from over 500 pictures).

First are the flowers… I love pictures of flowers. We both do. We have been collecting pictures of flowers so we can use some of the good ones as decorations for the duplex we are moving to soon.

This place had the awesome-ist toasted almond ice cream… that was a good welcome to Denver.

Boys at the bachelor party. They went up to Boulder for some “top secret” and/or dangerous lakeside activities…

The reservoir they went to for the bachelor party…

We went to the rehearsal… this is where the wedding was… can you say beautiful!

Between the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner we climbed a small mountain. We couldn’t figure out how to get to the very top, as it was all boulders, but we got pretty far…

Dave climbing…

This is how far we made it up this one….

That night was the rehearsal dinner. These are our good friends Anthony and Rachel. They were the first from Dave’s group of friends to get married… sadly we don’t get to see them often enough!

The guys got frisbees as part of their wedding party gifts… so some Ultimate was in order…

woo!

I took my feet a walkin’ and went exploring a little…

Of course the boys had to get in a power stance before the night was over…

Random cool picture I like…

Some of the boys at the wedding…

I realized later I have no pictures of the actual wedding.. ah well.

Sam!!

Sam and I.. waiting for the receiving line..

Group shot after breakfast Monday morning, before Anthony and Rachel left to go home.

The last thing we (Dave, Sam and I) did before we headed back to Denver to catch our plane home was go for a 1/2 day hike in the mountains. Sadly, we didn’t have enough time to make it to the very top of Flat Top Mountain… but we got pretty darn close. It was really awesome and we both hope to be able to visit the Rockies again some day!

My awesome little brothers are visiting us right now (yes I know.. that is 5 people and a dog in our tiny apartment, but ah well) for this past week and the next… so hopefully I’ll get some pictures of that up at some point. We are heading out tomorrow to go visit Dave’s grandma and go camping on her property for the weekend- we are all looking forward to it!

Adios for now!

-Liz (and Dave)

Anyways… we finished that “fun stuff” as soon as we could, so that we could go and do something that was actually fun. We were going to go to McCormick Creek State Park, but decided to save that until next weekend, seeing as it would probably be busy with it being memorial day and all. So, instead we decided to explore a place we recently learned of that is near where we live – Griffey Lake Nature Preserve….

This is the second hike Calvin’s been on and he LOVES it. This dog was born to be in the great outdoors!

The area of Griffey Lake we went to was a little more off the beaten path, the trail didn’t go to far until it veered away from the lake and became a bit unclear… so we didn’t go too far, we just turned around and meandered back, enjoying the pretty scenery.

Ewwwww!!!

This one you will have to click on to get a real good view… there were some people out on the lake kayaking and canoeing – something that we think would be fun to do some day.

Yeah, we’re just chillin’…

Ain’t he handsome?! He is getting so big already!

After a nice hike… we had one pooped pup.

All in all.. a fun day.

Here’s to one great year of marriage… and many many more to come!!

-Liz

Working in the garden (pictures coming!)

Sahara Mart (obsession).

First time making Indian food.

Way too spicy!

Whoops!

Calvin.

Dinner with small group (pictures taken by another member of the group – wish I had those skills!).

Thai food.

Not spicy.

Yummy.

Baby and little kids.

Calvin.

Anniversary.

Monday is mine and Dave’s 1st anniversary. So of course we’ve decided to make it a weekend affair. Nothing fancy – just spending time together.

Right now we are off to use up one of the restaurant gift certificates I got from one of my preschool students at the end of the year. Then we will head over to water the garden and then come back home and I’ll give Dave a haircut. Maybe if we’re feeling especially crazy we’ll watch a movie.

Thats all for now,

Liz

So, one of the things that has been taking up the most of our time lately is our garden. We are currently renting a plot at the community gardens across the street from the YMCA where I work. It is 10×20 feet, in which we can surprisingly grow a lot of stuff. We are using a modified version of Square Foot Gardening and it is turning out pretty good for us – granted, we are far from harvest time!

We are also growing a bunch of stuff on our balcony at the apartment: tomatoes, strawberries, hot peppers, flowers…

I hope to in the next post give a proper update on our garden for those who would like to see it. I like it.

-Liz

PS the picture above is of the strawberry plant on our porch. It is doing quite well – but I wish we had space for about 30 more of them!

So I’ve finally just decided to suck it up and stop this whole picture a day business. As much as I want to finish what I’ve started, it just isn’t working for me. And things that don’t work for me get the boot.

So, I’ll still be around.

Hopefully I’ll be posting something soon.

Hopefully.

-Liz

This!

Meet….Calvin. John Calvin to be exact.. but just Calvin for short.

We went to Dave’s parents this weekend to pick the little guy up.

Him and his brother and sister where quite adorable.

Here’s the proud papa, Trotter.

And here’s the mama – Cora’s dog Ellie.

Cora’s joining in the fun.

But, alas, the time came for him to leave his family for a new one. He cried a little on the way home, but all in all is pretty happy. We got in at about 1am this morning and Calvin woke Dave up at 6:30am and me at 7am – I guess he will be making early risers out of us.

Now I need to get ready and go to work (Dave has already left for his first day of work at IU’s business school – he’ll be moving furniture, etc all summer). Sad to leave the cutie… but thankfully I only have to work until 12:30pm.

Now I have something to take pictures of…

-Liz

-Liz

I’ve had my computer back for almost a week now – I’ve just been insanely busy.

I’m still insanely busy – I’m just choosing to ignore that fact right now.

Here’s some pictures I took during these past days of computer rebellion…

This picture marks the monumental day where I actually had dinner ready BEFORE our guests got here. Never happened before. Seriously.

I finally cleared off my sewing table. I have no clue why this picture is so blurry.

My stash of “sewing material” – aka old t-shirts and thrift store finds.

Inspired by New Dress a Day (seriously, check it out!)… I made my first sewing project in like a year (and only the second one I’ve ever completed)… This was a skirt that was super comfy – but hung weird (I think it was the pleats/t-shirt material combo).

Cut, cut, snip, snip = jammie shorts!

Okay, so they aren’t perfect – but I’m just a beginner! At least they are comfy!

April 24th marked a monumental occasion – my birthday! aka the best day ever! I woke to Dave making me breakfast (which included this delicious, and fancy, strawberry orange juice), we went to the farmers market to buy some plants for the garden, I bought a new swim suit for work, Dave bought us Avatar, we went out to dinner to FARMbloomington (can you say “best hummus ever!”?), got rained on, and ended the day nice and cozy watching Avatar. Ahhh birthdays…  oh, did I mention we also decided to get a PUPPY?! Oh, don’t worry… there will be pictures galore.

My first attempt at a “Thai-ish” type meal. Peanut ginger stir fry. It was delish.

The beautiful time line I made for youth group. They might not think it is all that stellar – but at least I finally understand the order of events from the Division of the Kingdom to the 430 years of silence!  And this picture is kinda weird because I’m too impatient to use the panoramic setting on our camera. Oh, and my feet are in there twice.. whoops.

Cool bug that was on our porch the other day. He didn’t seem to care that I was shoving a camera in his face.

And, lastly, the beautiful-ness that was last night’s dinner. My first time making it. Thin crust pizza with a garlic and basil butter sauce, topped with spinach, tomatoes, feta, and mozzarella cheese. Heavenly. This new pizza crust is amazing (and amazingly easy).

Well, that’s it for now. I took more pictures – but they were of our garden.. which will be getting its own separate post soon.

I hope to post tomorrow – but I have a lovely 12 hour workday. So, we’ll see.

Adios.

-Liz

This time I promise it isn’t my fault! My computer crashed. I know. Sad day.

My life is on that thing.

I guess that’s what I get for “having my life” on a piece of metal and plastic.

I should be getting it back soon – (probably) sans every bit of info i’ve tucked away on it.

Oh well, this is only the third time that computer has crashed on me… I should be used to it by now.

Phooey.

I’ll have picture-y goodness for anyone who cares in a few days.

Until then,

Liz (the virus attractor)