These prayer flags are the guest book from our wedding.  One of the traditional Nepalese prayer flag beliefs is that as the sun and wind and elements weather the flags the wishes and prayers written on them are released into the universe.  I highly recommend this guest book idea.

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This little bridge crosses the little water feature and leads to the gazebo.  This picture is for my friend Joel…who is welcome to come over to cross the bridge anytime.  :)

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I just couldn’t get enough of the colors in the front yard.  So pretty!

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Nick and I attended a couple of Halloween parties this year.  We both tried to make costumes out of stuff we already had or could borrow so we weren’t spending a bunch of money.  Nick dressed as a Mormon missionary and I borrowed a friend’s Brownie outfit (thanks A.T!).  I worked on earning my dance badge at the first party and my photography badge a the second!  Thanks K, K and Sarah for hosting such fun parties!

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Below is Mike and Suz’s sweet Bronco pumpkin…which for a time provided light when the power went out.  Spooky!

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Same bike and same street as the previous post…just taken 24 (bike) or 48 (street) hours later.  A visual explanation of why Denver doesn’t have a lot of snow plows.

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…resulted in 15 stitches in his face from mountain bike mishaps so he couldn’t shave for a while.  Nick is incapable of going slow on bikes (or on skis for that matter) so it’s a little amazing that in 5 years of knowing him this hadn’t happened before.

This is what I call his mountain man look.  Cute!

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Today is the saddest of days.

My friends A and M are going through the worst nightmare and heartbreak of a parent…the loss of their three babies.  If you could send up a little prayer or send out some healing energy to surround them, it’s needed.

 

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This morning Kathryn and I got up at o’ dark thirty, made some encouraging signs for our buddies and headed downtown to cheer on some friends that were running either the Denver Half Marathon or the full Denver Marathon.  We started this little tradition last year when we cheered on Trisha in the full marathon, and continued it this year by cheering on Abby, Ross, Brooke, Amy and Rebecca.  I took some pictures but none of my friends because I wanted to make sure I could be obnoxiously supportive with yelling and ringing of the cowbells when they ran by.

A very VERY hearty congratulations to you runners…I’m so proud of all of you!  And a big thanks to Kathryn for being cheering buddies with me.  I love that this is going to be an annual thing (you runner people have to keep running to we can keep cheering! ha!) and it’s definitely worth getting up in the dark for.

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“…it’s just the end of everything you know.  Head versus heart is like bicycle versus a car”

From Bob Schneider’s new album, Lovely Creatures.

Pretty much sums it up.

P.S.  Buy this album.  Today.  It’s so good.