Colorado 2014

Colorado is always so beautiful and this year was no exception. 

It was also really nice and cool, a wonderful change from 90 degree South Florida. 

One of our first days we were able to go to dinner with friends of ours who just moved there. 

We went to this really weird burger place, it was great!

We spent the rest of the trip hanging out and hiking. 

We also spent a day in Breckenridge, which was one of the things I wanted to do the most!

 

So beautiful!

 
Our first hike of the trip, the tree house.


Of course I had to spend time snuggling this cute 5 month old!
Love my niece!


One of my favorite nights!
Most people went to a play, but we stayed back.
We spent most of the time playing with this cutie!
He loved popping the bubbles Riley was blowing for him.
I was so impressed with how they sat on the grass!


SO much joy!

 

She had so much fun with this dollar store kite!

A Very Special 6 Year Old!

In May, our niece Riley turned 6. 

So we did what we always do and headed to Orlando for a fun, relaxing weekend. 

We took off Friday and spent the night hanging out, eating, and relaxing at the hot tub. 

On Saturday we spent our time at Epcot. 

 Riley's 6th Birthday celebration and Reese's first time at Disney (11 weeks)!

The whole family!

 We went to take a picture in front of the butterflies and ended up in a promo video to be released next year about the Flower and Garden Exhibit!

While we were in Orlando, we spent Saturday night with Kyle's best friends. 

We went to a video game bar. 

I was NOT looking forward to it, but it ended up being really cool. 

The place is filled with all these old arcade games as well as multiple current game systems. 

You can borrow any of the wide range of games they offer and play as much as you like!

Here's to using kids birthdays as an excuse to go to theme parks for years to come!

Cruisin'

In September, we took off on a long weekend to celebrate Kyle and my brother-in-law's birthdays.

It was a great trip to get away for a few days. 

It was extremely weird to think that at that time the previous year I started my first day of work. 

 I am so thankful for the difference a year makes. 

We spent the trip relaxing.

 

Summer Days

This summer was one of the craziest, busiest ones I can remember. 

I was so thankful that we both had the time off that we could do all these wonderful things. 

Our July:

1. 4th of July was spent BBQing and hanging out at the pool with the family.

2. Julia and Robbie's Wedding.
The following day we spent an extremely short, whirlwind weekend celebrating my best friends wedding in Colorado. It was absolutely gorgeous.

3. I had my first experience with jury duty.
Thankfully there were too many jurors and I got to go home almost immediately!

 

4. 7/11

 

5. Orlando Weekend

One of Kyle's best friends came down from Iowa to visit. 

So we made the trip up there to see them. 

The last time we saw them, his wife was 6 months pregnant. 

When we saw them this summer, they had a 4 month old. 

 

 

 

 

  Of course, no Orlando trip is complete without a stop at Harry Potter World. 

6. Boender Annual Colorado Trip.

The following weekend, it was back to Colorado for a week long stay.

 

Totally met Clark Duke on the way home!

7. This cutie turned 1!

As you can see, July was insanely busy, but full of wonderful memories.  

Hello Spring Break

I have to say, weekends are much more enjoyable when you know you don't have to go to work on Monday morning. 

This weekend we spent a lot of time with friends and family. 

It was so nice to just enjoy the time and not worry about things I needed to get done.

Friday night, we had some friends over and played Settlers of Catan. 

We really like to broaden our horizons. 

Kyle and I won every game played and figure it must be because it was at our house. 

We might need to play over here more often.

Our friend Brad spent the night and the next day we went with him and Jason apartment hunting.

It's much more enjoyable when you just get to look at places, but aren't moving yourself!

Sadly, this happened. 

We rolled down the window and the power windows went out. 

This had happened a few months before and the fuse just needed replacing. 

So we went and bought a couple fuses and fixed the window. 

Sunday, we did our usual church and family lunch. 

Then we headed to our friend's house to play some more Settlers.

Like I said, party animals.

Stephanie won every game, furthering our theory of house wins. 

On our way home, we stopped to get some food. 

Only to try and roll the window up and the power windows again go out. 

Thankfully, we had an extra fuse this time. 

We replaced the fuse, and before we could even get the window back up, that one blew as well.

Clearly, there's a bigger issue here...

On the bright side, I have Spring Break this week. 

What a great way to spend the morning. 

Now I get to spend the rest of the day dealing with the car.

At least it happened now, when I have time to work on it!

Weekend Update

I finally started feeling back to normal this weekend. 

I can't believe how long it's been since we've done stuff other than hang around the house. 

Saturday morning we headed down to meet the rest of the family at the Youth Day Parade.

People in the community ride on floats and throw candy at all the children watching. 

It was really cute!

The girls were so excited, I'm sure it had nothing to do with all the candy!

We got to spend time with family and then walk around the mall to pick up some stuff we needed. 

It was just a really nice day.

Later that night, we went to dinner with my family to celebrate my little brother's birthday!

I can't believe he's already 18!

It was so nice to get out of the house for something other than errands!

High Five for Friday

1// Days off!

2// Strawberry Picking!

3// Perks of driving to work at 7am

4// New recipes

5// Games nights with friends!