Summer Pics!

For all of you non-facebookers.... here's a couple links to some of the pictures from the summer so far: "Random Summer Pics", "Bridal Veil Falls Hike", " Chasm Lake Hike" Enjoy! ~:)

Boulder Boulder!

Summer is here!!! As an official celebration, I joined my friends in running/walking the 10K BoulderBoulder race on Memorial Day.

Meagan (co-4th-grade-teacher) me and Liz (bestie friend) getting pinned up and ready to go:

Running! It's fun to see the signs along the way!

The Boulder Boulder has lots of fun stops along the way for those of us who didn't take it too seriously :) Here's Gwen doing the slip-n-slide!

Liz and I making 7.5k! Woo hoo!!

Gwen taking a Marshmallow Break!! :)

Running into the stadium packed with like 50,000 people - gave me goosebumps!!

Finish line with my girls - Gwen, me, and Liz. (Meagan decided she wanted to run faster than us... we found her in the stands and had our snack while we watched the pros run!) GREAT DAY!! HAPPY SUMMER!!!!

SNOW DAY!!

Ok, I'm aware I haven't posted in forever... it's been a busy year, and while nothing is (or has been) really specifically wrong, I think I post more when I'm happiest. That being said: What a great day!!
Today was suppose to be a professional development day at school (i.e. no students, just a bunch of meetings that aren't really ever that useful). When the weather forecast started predicting serious snowfall, we were all crossing fingers and toes, wearing pjs inside out, and every other superstitious snow praying that we could think of. Someone out there heard us because school was called off Thursday evening. This meant a morning of sleeping in (ahhh...) an afternoon of sledding:

(more pics on facebook here)
And an evening with friends in the climbing gym. Thank you friends, dogs, and especially the snow... for a fantastic day!

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)