Packers and Weddings and Life... oh my!!!

Sorry for the complete lack of blogging!! It's been a mad dash since school started, but I just had to blog about my last two weekends because they were just too much fun not to share :)


First, I got to go spend the weekend with my Daddeeee at my very first Lambeau Field Packers game. It has been permanently filed as one of my bestest Daddy memories ever (and just FYI Daddeeee.... I'm wearing my packers pjs as I type!!) The packers kicked some Bronco-bootie (49-23) and I got to be within throwing distance of my sports-boyfriend Aaron Rodgers (that's MY throwing distance, not his!!). I also got to see my WI aunties and it was fun to get hugs from them :)
If you want to check out the pictures click here

Then this past weekend one of my bestes EP friends, Gwen, got to marry her wonderful boy in a hilarious and extremely fun wedding. There was lots of dancing, Reese's pieces, and laughter!! I'm a lucky gal to have such amazing friends :)


Now comes the crappy couple weeks of report cards and parent teacher conferences... so don't expect to hear from me until November!! :)

Good Day

Extra sleep (check), Toes painted (check), Longs Peak sweatshirt that matches with my friends' purchased (check), funny Longs Peak tshirt purchased (check), too much yummy Chinese food eaten (check), pretty new necklace and fun hat(check), great day with friends (check), papers graded (check).... I think the day could have used some icecream... but overall it was pretty awesome :)

14,259 ft

‎14,259 feet - 4,850 feet up (and 4,850 feet down!) - 15 miles - 18 hours on the trail - 8,120 calories burned - one incredible experience... and probably the longest and hardest day of my life.
I didn't include this picture in the facebook file, but I had to take a "wictory" pic at the top for my family :)


The rest of the pictures are on facebook here.

Now it's time for more advil and more sleep.

From Vegas back to the mountains...

We had an amazingly fun time at Gwen's bachelorette party :)


Then it was time for another peak with the peak club! (Pictures here)

Back to the mountains...

I had a wonderful week hanging with my nephews in Vermont! I got to have some quality sis-in-law time and video-gamed-it-up with the bro! It was a fantastic week, but also nice to come back home to my mountains.

Last Sunday we climbed Deer Mountain... (pictures here)

This week we did the Estes Cone... (pictures here)

We're still possibly attempting Long's Peak this year.... the nice thing is that if we don't make it... the mountain will still be there :)

Now the next fun thing is VEGAS!!! Headed off to Gwen's bachelorette party on Tuesday. Wooo hooo!! :)

Lily Mountain

Our Peak group was a little smaller this week, and we had other things planned for the day, so we picked a much shorter mountain this time. Lilly mountain is 9,740 ft tall. The trail head starts around 8,800 and two miles later you're at the top :)

Not quite the excursion that it was last week, but still lots of fun!
Click here to see the rest of the pictures on facebook.

Twin Sisters

So a group of us who are thinking of possibly trying to climb Long's this summer have started a peak club. We're going to shoot for a local peak a week to work our way up to the big one. Today we bagged our first - Twin Sisters. ‎11,428 feet -- 7.4 miles (round trip) -- 2,400ish ft elevation gain -- 4.5 hours -- 2,270 calories burned -- laughter was immeasurable.
Check out the pictures on facebook here.