Daycation

Yesterday Scot and I went on a little daycation. A few weeks ago we decided to go up to Breckenridge for their Snow Sculpture competition. We had never been before but had heard really great things about it so I really want to go and check it out! It was such a fun day, we just wish we had been able to stay there a little bit longer than a few hours! Here are pictures from the day...

As we were pulling in to town we saw these wind surfers! They are wind surfing on ice and snowboards! We thought this was really cool.

I kept telling Scot we were going to see ice sculptures but they were really snow sculptures. These were the only ice sculptures they had but they were still really cool!

This sculptures was created by a team from Mexico. This was one of Scot's favorites! Here it is from the front...

And from the back...

A couple more that weren't our favorites but still very impressive...Each sculpture starts out as a 20 ton block of snow that is created from snow from the ski resort.

The Polar Bear was one of our favorites!

Here is the lady from the front. She even has a comb in her hair.

Here she is from the back.

The one behind us is a man playing a violin but as you can see, we are blocking him. Whoops.
Overlooking all the sculptures...

Part of the ski resort and a sign that says thin ice, do not cross. Clearly people listened and decided to walk across the ice anyway! Duh!!

After we walked around downtown and ate dinner at the "Pizza Parlor" in this really cool old victorian house we went back to see the sculptures all lit up at night. They looked really beautiful in the light and it was a lot easier to see the details...

We really liked this one obviously!
On the way back to the car we stopped at a little cafe and bought chocolate chip oatmeal and peanut butter cookies with hot chocolate to drive home with! Yum! The perfect ending to a really fun day!

I think our next daycation is going to be skiing. I'M SCARED! Stay tuned for how that goes in a couple weeks!

Happy...

...New Moon Day!

(Don't even act like you all aren't excited!!)

B - Town

Last weekend Scot and I went to Boise to visit my bestie friend Mitzi. I can honestly say I feel like we are kindred spirits. We met in college about 8 years ago and we were definitely meant to meet and become friends. For a more detailed account of our friendship go HERE to Mitzi's blog!

Mitzi posted a whole bunch of fun old pictures from when we were in college so I thought I would post a few more just for old times sake!

We loved running around in these amazing wigs and visiting friends. OK, we only did it once but we thought it was really funny.

Here we are with a sexy beast hockey player in Jackson Hole.

Kayaking on the American River in Sac Town where you don't back down!

Mitzi took me to her home town of Arco, Idaho. Here we are at Swingin' Tree.

Playing airplane or something??...

Here is what a typical evening at our apartment looked like on any given night of the week...Three Amigos!

Mitzi and I after she had moved to Salt Lake! That was a sad sad day!

Love this picture...it's hilarious!

It was so great to catch up and just hang out with good friends. We loved getting to know Mitzi's husband more and meeting their adorable son Corbin! Here are a couple pictures. I can't believe we didn't take more! We were picture taking fools in college. I had a hard time widling them all down to do this post!

Here we are on our short hike Saturday overlooking Boise...

Mitzi helped me make this SUPER cutie apron over the weekend. I told her I was making it just so I could have something cute to hang on my hook in the kitchen. Ha ha ha!

Thanks so much for a fun weekend! Can't wait to see you guys again...SOON! Not 4 years from now!!

A Brithday and A Celebrity Sighting

For the long Labor Day Weekend Scot and I were able to fly back to California (my most favoritist place in the world) for my dad's birthday. We had a great time hanging out with the fam! Although our trip did start out sort of rough having to keep our big old carry on suitcases at our feet on the plane and having to empty fuel from our plane in order to make weight it all ended up working out and went smoothly from there on out (Side Note: I do NOT like to fly, it scares me and it especially scares me when they want to empty an essential element such as fuel from the plane. HELLO!)

Anyway, while we were there I was able to work on a project with the help of my mom.
She made a cute little roll up similar to this for all of her knitting needles and crochet hooks so I decided that I needed one too! My mom is a great seamstress and was able to tell me what to do from memory! Here is how it turned out...So neat and organized!!

On Saturday we celebrated my dad's birthday by having a picnic in the Elk Grove Park with friends and family. It was a really fun afternoon. It wasn't too hot either which was really nice.

On Monday we flew back home :(. Sadness. When we got to L.A. for our 2 1/2 hour layover we started walking down the terminal to find something to eat. We stopped so Scot could use the facilities and when he came back out I said to him "let's just go back to California Pizza Kitchen over by where our gate is." Scot was like "Ya, that sounds good." So we walked back over and ordered our food. After ordering I walked over and filled up our cup and started scanning the restaurant for a place to sit and that's when I saw him. NOW, I know you all are going to be like YA RIGHT. You are way too obsessed! But this is true. OK back to my story, so I'm scanning and I see him. I of course did a double take and he looked up and I am pretty sure he saw the recognition in my face but I decided to be dignified and not say anything to him even though I wanted to run over and ask him for a picture. People were leaving him alone and I didn't want to cause him any problems. Well of course there happened to be seats right next to him so we sat there and now I am able to say that I ate lunch next to Emmett Cullen (Kellan Lutz) from Twilight. Booo ya!

For those of you who don't know who in the heck I'm talking about here he is:
I should have been more brave and gotten a picture I know, I know but I'm sure they get sick of the craziness so I thought it better not to embarass myself. Know what I mean?

Even though it was a super quick trip we were glad we were able to go. It's always nice to get away and spend some time with the fam. Love you guys!

Here are the happs...

{That's short for the happenings...}

So I can't believe how long it's been since we've posted anything! That's probably because we have been super BORING this summer! Oh well, what can you do? Anyway earlier last month we went on a bike ride...BAD idea. It was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done...OK maybe not but pretty dang close. I couldn't even walk the next day. We rode from a little town called Silverthorne up to another ski town called Breckenridge. We figure from the car to Breckenridge was around 10 - 12 miles UPHILL the entire way. When we got to the last hill I literally stopped my bike got off and started to cry. Scot was being very supportive and telling me I could do it. I told him to go on without me and that I would just live there next to little stream forever. After eating a cliff bar though and a few swigs of water I was rejuvinated enough and we DID IT! Woo hoo. Here is a before picture when we still thought we were going to have a fun day. Sexy, I know.

Anyway other than that not much else...I have been working on a few projects some of them are gifts though so no posty...
Seriously, this project was seirously sent straight from heaven. I have been looking for a place to keep all of my jewelry where I could see it all and not have it get all tangled up and low and behold I found the perfect solution. All you need is a frame, chicken wire and your husbands big old staple gun! Oh ya!

I've seen it done with really gorgeous, ornate frames but seriously where do those people find stuff like that? I don't know, so I just went with Michael's frames. Works great and I had a stinkin' coupon. HECK YA!

Here is another somethin' somethin' I FINALLY finished. I started this project way back when and finally decided it was time to finish it. I was a little off on my measurements but it will do the job.

Anyway that's about all from us for now. We hope everyone is doing well!!

Hiking Pikes Peak

Last Saturday Scot hiked this big white mountain...

...called Pikes Peak. I think he's crazy for even wanting to do it but I was impressed that he was able to accomplish this goal that he has always wanted to do...

Here are some pictures from their trip...

Starting out at Barr Trail in Manitou Springs at 5:00 in the morning! Yikes!

The sun is just starting to come up...

At timberline...here is where the air really starts to thin out...

Taking a break...not much more to go...

The trail...

I met them up at the top so that I could drive them back down. It takes an HOUR to drive to the top and some of it is dirt roads and really steep, kinda scary.

Great Job Scot! I'm very proud of you!...And no, I definitely will not be doing that with you anytime soon! I think my way of driving up is much more leisurely :)...