Manitou Incline

Scot and I have been talking about hiking the Incline for a long time but I've always been too chicken to do it!...See THIS post from a while back.  FINALLY a few Saturdays ago we bucked up and did it and I'm so glad we did!  It felt like such an accomplishment when we got to the top which I wasn't expecting for some reason, but, we felt great and we finally fulfilled one of our long time goals!

It definitely wasn't easy getting to the top and there may or may not have been a moment where I had to pull off the trail and lay down on a rock but WE DID IT!  Yay!!

The views of Colorado Springs once we got to the top alone was worth it!  We feel so lucky to live in such a beautiful place!

Kings - Nuggets Game!

I lovie dove dove Sacramento! I really do. It's my hometown. Who doesn't love and adore their hometown? Forever now Scot and I have been talking about going to a Denver Nuggets game when the Sacramento Kings came in to town and so on Thursday night we finally did it! I had actually bought the tickets for Scot for Valentines Day so we have been anticipating this little outing for a while and were so excited to go. It came at the perfect time too. It seems like we have been so busy lately and haven't really spent a whole lot of time together with Scot being in school and our schedules constantly conflicting so we were really excited to have an entire night to get to spend together. We headed up to Denver right after work and got to the Pepsi Center about 30 minutes before the game started so we were able to get our NACHOS and Pepsi before the lines got too long and find our seats. We actually had really great seats too, they were high up of course but our row was up against a wall so we didn't have any one behind us kicking our seats or spilling food and such on us so it was great. I had big plans to order a Sacramento Kings shirt before this game but I just ran out of time and never got to it so I had to wear my retro Denver Nuggets shirt BUT I did represent in a small way by wearing my purple/black earings! Go Kings!I am very sad however, to report that the Kings lost. They were doing SOOO well at the beginning and I was having a great time heckling Scot about it but by the 4th quarter they were just over it I guess because it was almost like they gave up. Oh well, what can you do? We had such a fun time anyway! I love spending time with my husband!

So this one time...

(Remember the little old guy who would ride around on this bus in the commercials? Loved that guy...)

...a long time ago...during the summer of 2004 before Scot and I got married we went to my parents house in Sacramento for a little visit. One of the days we were there we went to Six Flags Marine World which is basically a miniature Sea World combined with a miniature Six Flags Theme park. We had spent a nice summer day seeing some shows and walking around the park. Toward the end of the day Scot and I decided to venture over to the area of the park where the rides are. There really aren't that many rides (at least at the time there wasn't, it might be different now) but there is this one really HUGE roller coaster ride called The Medusa. I had been on it about 13 trillion times from going as a kid so I wasn't worried or scared...like I sometimes am. It was a particularly busy day at the park so we had been waiting in line for a quite while. After a few minutes I noticed that we hadn't moved at all since getting in line and so we started looking around tryng to figure out what was going on. Come to find out from some of the other kids in line...someone had had the barfies all over the ride and they were trying to get it cleaned up. That was when it all changed for me. I was done! Gross, Gross, Gross. I instantly felt sick and we jumped out of the line. Scot could not understand why I didn't want to get on that ride. Seriously? What if? Just what if you got put in the seat with the barfies (which I would have) and then what if they hadn't gotten it all and then what if it made you have the barfies and then...then you would be known as the OTHER person who had the barfies on the Medusa ride and made the line stop while they cleaned it up. So to this day Scot has never ridden the Medusa ride and maybe he never will because it will forever be known and remembered as the barfy ride and I don't think I will ever be able to look at it the same again.

Snuggies!

Scot and I recently got Snuggies and we think they are awesome!
...I mean, at first I was like "a Snuggie? Seriously? Who came up with that?!!" But now...I would say not a night goes by where I don't put that bad boy on and think "wow, this was a great decision."

New Car!

So long PT Cruiser...

Butterfly Pavillion

When Scot and I were first married I was new to the area so we would always try to go out and see something new every weekend. I think we soon realized that we weren't going to be able to afford that...but it was fun while it lasted! One of the first weekends after we got married we drove to Denver and walked around the Butterfly Pavillion in Westminster. We had a blast spending the day exploring!

Scot with a tarantula! I wouldn't get near that thing! Yikes!

Sea Life!

A little butterfly in the bushes!

One landed on Scot's finger! I don't know why but that FREAKS me out. I did not want any of them landing on me! Most people would love it but for some reason...not me!

I think some of my fear of butterfly habitats comes from when I was a kid. There was this place called Marine World in Vallejo, California and we would go there when I was a kid and I just remember that one time we had gone in to the Butterfly Pavillion that they have. When you go to walk out they have these big plastic flaps in front of the doors, I am guessing to keep the butterflies inside when people leave and I was happily skipping along and ran through those flaps and was pretty happy about it until I realized that some nasty little kid had BARFED all over the flaps! Sooooo gross! So now every time I am in a butterfly place I think of that...and now you will too.

So Basically...

I like this guy right here...

ALOT!

...And that is all I have to say today...just thought you all should know.

Tracing Wheel AND Tracing Paper

I would have to say that this is the best thing that I have discovered all week! I know that as a person who loves to sew I probably should have already known about this stuff but normally I just eye ball any markings that I have to make while I am sewing, which isn't the best way to go about things but this little discovery has made my life so much easier! I can just put these nice little tracing papers right under my pattern and trace the markings directly on to the fabric with 100% accuracy. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

Denver Overnighter!

Over the summer Scot and I randomly decided to go and spend a weekend in Downtown Denver. When we can't always get away it's sometimes fun to just take a quick trip even if we just drive down the road an hour or so!

The view from our room and a really cute little park that we were able walk around...

We stayed near our State Capital!...
Here is our hotel...
Here is a random, gigantic, red chair with a horse on it??...

We ate dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe on the 16th Street mall.

After dinner we walked down 16th street and listened to a band and then stopped to get gelato before heading in.

Ahhhh, I miss summer!! Happy Monday!

Crochet Baskets

I have loved making these little crocheted baskets for the last few months! I don't even really need them or have any real purpose for them I just think it's theraputic to make them! I can come home from a long day at work and whip out one of these cute little baskets and I just think it's relaxing I guess...or something...and stuff...

You can get the tutorial HERE at the Design Sponge DIY blog.

THIS yarn works great and is super affordable. You can find it at JoAnns, Michaels, Hobby Lobby and probably Wal Mart if yours hasn't taken out the craft section like ours! So disappointing...