Car Shopping

Tonight Michaels car overheated on his way home from work!  We think the head gasket blew, so it wouldn't really be worth it to fix it up and keep it, especially when we don't really know too much about fixing cars!  Shoot...we have been talking about getting a more reliable vehicle for awhile, but decided to wait and hope that the Tauras lasted a little longer.  I guess that didn't happen...now we have to find a vehicle hopefully before the weekend is over.  We went to a dealership tonight and test drove a Grand Prix, a nice car, but with high miles and a little too expensive.  We found a Grand Prix on craigslist that Michael is going to check out tomorrow, cross your fingers it works out! 

Everything comes at once...One weekend we are shopping for apartments and packing up to move, and the next weekend we are shopping for a new car.  I think I am ready for a weekend that involves no shopping of any kind!!

1 year!

This past weekend was our 1 yr. anniversary...crazy how time flies!!  We had originally planned on going to Moab, Utah...but instead stuck around here since we are moving in two weeks and have a lot of packing to do!  On Sunday we hiked up St. Mary's Glacier, a short but tiring hike.  The view from the top was beautiful!

People would carry up their skis and snowboards to ski down...doesn't seem worth it to me!

We are moving in about a week and a half and I have a lot of packing to do!  I am excited about moving... we will have a bigger place, right next to the foothills with an amazing view!  It is just the packing and unpacking that I am not too excited about.

We also bought our ski passes this past weekend...Can't wait for winter:)

Wow...once again its been a long time since I have updated this thing...oops!  Since I have last updated this, we have done quite a bit.
Bob, Carol and Leah came to town...I had to work the whole time except for the weekend.  We stayed in Steamboat Springs for a couple of nights and had a lot of fun!

We took the gondola up the ski hill...it was pretty windy!

Fish Creek Falls

Strawberry Park...Some nice hot springs we soaked in, it felt great!

Aspen

This past Sunday we went up to Aspen with Stephanie and Joel.  We couldn't have picked a better day, it was sunny and warm.  We even stopped to swim on our way!

On our way up, we stopped at the lake we took our Christmas picture at.  It looks a lot different in the summer when there is green grass and flowers out.

We also stopped in Twin Lakes to cook lunch and swim.  It was a little cold, but very refreshing!  It reminded me of Lake Superior because the water was so cold and clear.

From the top of Independence Pass

The Maroon Bells

None of my pictures turned out very good at the Bells because it was humid and the sun was starting to go behind the mountain.

We decided to hike up to the second lake.  It was a harder hike than we expected!

Halfway up...we started down at the lake.

Whew!...we finally made it to Crater Lake.  You can see Michael laying down in the corner...we were a little tired:)

On our way back down...this reminded me of the U.P.  We don't see trails like this too often!

A guy died hiking the Bells the day before.

The trip up to Aspen makes for a long day, but well worth it.  I was definetly glad that I didn't have to work the next day, I was pretty exhausted!

Mt. Evans

Mountain Goats on Mt. Evans.

They let us get super close to them and didn't seem scared at all!

When we left Denver it was 100*, when we got to the top of Mt. Evans it was 54*.  Brrr!

Camping

Its been awhile since I have posted anything.  I meant to post about our camping trip to Wyoming a long time ago, but never got around to it.  It felt so good to get out of the city for awhile.  The stars were super bright, and you don't hear any cars.  There is pretty much no one around up in Wyoming...completely different than Colorado.  One night on our way up to our camping sight we almost hit a mountain lion. Yikes!  I knew those things were big but didn't realize they were that big...it was huge.  I wish I could've got a picture, but he disappeared pretty fast.  The rest of the night I was a little paranoid, I almost slept in the Jeep, but decided I didn't want so sleep alone :)
The guys did a lot of fishing while I sat and read a book.  There was still a lot of snow high up in the mountains...and it wasn't very warm!

Mom, these ones are for you!  I tried taking many pictures of the flowers, but most of them were blurry...not sure why?!

I am so glad we were able to get up there to camp...hopefully we will have time for one more trip up there before summer is over.  Before we go camping again, I am definetely going to get a new sleeping bag.  I woke up both mornings with numb feet and had to start a fire to warm up!

4th of July

Saturday night we went to another Rockies game...this time I actually watched the whole thing:)  After the game they had fireworks.  They put on a pretty good show!

Sunday night it was cold and rainy so we decided to just drive around and see fireworks.  Since it is so flat out here, we could see fireworks all over the city! 

We had thought several times today that it wouldv'e been nice to go up to the Harbor...we are just a little too far away for that!

I hope everyone had a fun 4th of July!