Monday, June 30, 2008
A little Upgrade...
Well I finally upgraded my blog! I have been wanting to do a little makeover for sometime, and I just needed the right pictures to do it. My old blog was a perfect winter blog, but I just needed something more bright for summer. My family was so sweet to pose for me yesterday, we were able to get some really cute shots of the kids. I'll post as many as I can for the grandparents sorry to everyone else this may be a long one!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Rocky Mountain High...Colorado...
I wanted to post this blog a week ago, but I couldn't get my pictures to work, I finally got my computer working, so here it goes.
Last Friday on the 14th was our 6th anniversary! WOW how time flies! I can't believe it has been six years! Jake wanted to be in charge this year so of course I let him. (He is so much better at surprises than me) He didn't disappoint by any means. He completely blew me away and flew my Mom in from Boston to watch our little kiddles and then he informed me that he had two days off from work to do whatever we wanted to do! I was so excited, Aspen is one of those places I have always wanted to go so I immediately thought about Aspen. Jake told me that he had not made any plans as far as hotels so we could go anywhere and do anything. Talk about a dream come true. I don't think in all the six years of doing this job has Jake ever taken off a Friday and a Saturday to just play. It was so great! So we sat down and planned out our weekend and decided that we would spend Friday in Aspen and then drive to Vail and spend Friday night there. Then on Saturday we would head to downtown Denver and go to the water park right next to the city, and then it would be our traditional anniversary dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. Then we would stay in downtown Denver on Saturday night. We did just that, it was the best weekend ever. We had such a fun time exploring Colorado, we visited some of the most incredibly beautiful mountain ranges I have ever seen. We got great deals in Vail on a Hotel because it was the off season so we were able to stay in a beautiful ski resort suite for the same price as a regular hotel. When we were in downtown Denver we got this amazing deal at the Ritz Carlton. They were having a promotional weekend because of their grand opening so we got to stay there at a great price. Of course my little salesman husband talked the front desk guy into upgrading our room to a suite for free. We felt a little out of place, it was a little TOO nice but so fun to be treated like royalty. Talk about prim and proper, it was so fun to people watch and see the lifestyles of the rich and famous. However, It was really embarrassing, we actually went right from the water park to the Ritz and we were still in our bathing suits and shorts and flip flops, we felt so dumb squeekin our shoes up to the front desk. They were actually really nice and willing to still accommodate us. =) When we came down to the lobby to go to dinner the same guy didn't even recognize us because we were all dressed up, he was pretty surprised, he said, "You clean up well." cute.. It was great, the whole experience was so fun, and it was so fun to spend time with Jake and sort of leave all the stresses of life behind for a couple of days and just enjoy one another. I couldn't have asked for a better weekend. Thanks Jake, and thanks MOM for making this all possible. Love you guys! Here are some pictures of Aspen, I don't know why we didn't take more of our weekend, but Aspen was definitely the most picturesque.
Jake Thinks that this is the road in Dumb and Dumber where they are barely makin it up and people are passing them like crazy. It was hard to not relate Aspen to that movie I have to admit. Thank goodness I had some John Denver background so that I could at least relate it that way! =)
We took a Gondola ride up the Mountain and it was a little freaky, but really beautiful. At the top of the mountain there was an incredible view of this really famous mountain range where the average peak was 14,000 feet! The crazy thing is people actually ski them. They call them 14ers.
The 14ers
What a Handsom Boy I married...=)
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Last Friday on the 14th was our 6th anniversary! WOW how time flies! I can't believe it has been six years! Jake wanted to be in charge this year so of course I let him. (He is so much better at surprises than me) He didn't disappoint by any means. He completely blew me away and flew my Mom in from Boston to watch our little kiddles and then he informed me that he had two days off from work to do whatever we wanted to do! I was so excited, Aspen is one of those places I have always wanted to go so I immediately thought about Aspen. Jake told me that he had not made any plans as far as hotels so we could go anywhere and do anything. Talk about a dream come true. I don't think in all the six years of doing this job has Jake ever taken off a Friday and a Saturday to just play. It was so great! So we sat down and planned out our weekend and decided that we would spend Friday in Aspen and then drive to Vail and spend Friday night there. Then on Saturday we would head to downtown Denver and go to the water park right next to the city, and then it would be our traditional anniversary dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. Then we would stay in downtown Denver on Saturday night. We did just that, it was the best weekend ever. We had such a fun time exploring Colorado, we visited some of the most incredibly beautiful mountain ranges I have ever seen. We got great deals in Vail on a Hotel because it was the off season so we were able to stay in a beautiful ski resort suite for the same price as a regular hotel. When we were in downtown Denver we got this amazing deal at the Ritz Carlton. They were having a promotional weekend because of their grand opening so we got to stay there at a great price. Of course my little salesman husband talked the front desk guy into upgrading our room to a suite for free. We felt a little out of place, it was a little TOO nice but so fun to be treated like royalty. Talk about prim and proper, it was so fun to people watch and see the lifestyles of the rich and famous. However, It was really embarrassing, we actually went right from the water park to the Ritz and we were still in our bathing suits and shorts and flip flops, we felt so dumb squeekin our shoes up to the front desk. They were actually really nice and willing to still accommodate us. =) When we came down to the lobby to go to dinner the same guy didn't even recognize us because we were all dressed up, he was pretty surprised, he said, "You clean up well." cute.. It was great, the whole experience was so fun, and it was so fun to spend time with Jake and sort of leave all the stresses of life behind for a couple of days and just enjoy one another. I couldn't have asked for a better weekend. Thanks Jake, and thanks MOM for making this all possible. Love you guys! Here are some pictures of Aspen, I don't know why we didn't take more of our weekend, but Aspen was definitely the most picturesque.
Jake Thinks that this is the road in Dumb and Dumber where they are barely makin it up and people are passing them like crazy. It was hard to not relate Aspen to that movie I have to admit. Thank goodness I had some John Denver background so that I could at least relate it that way! =)
We took a Gondola ride up the Mountain and it was a little freaky, but really beautiful. At the top of the mountain there was an incredible view of this really famous mountain range where the average peak was 14,000 feet! The crazy thing is people actually ski them. They call them 14ers.
The 14ers
What a Handsom Boy I married...=)
3
Monday, June 2, 2008
Summer is Finally Here!
Summer has finally arived here in Denver! We have finally started to have some warm sunny days. We went to the pool the other day and watched the guys "dive for dollars." (They get to do that when everyone in the office sells on the same day) Unfortunetly Jake was out of town in Atlanta so we didn't get to cheer him on, we still had a good time though! Lookin forward to many more days at the pool.. Baby Nate was quite grumpy that day so we didn't get any shots of him, hopefully I will have better luck next time.
P.S. To all you cute Moms out there...Has anyone had bad luck with baby suncreens? I tried that Coppertone Water Babies 50+ and Ben broke out in hives BIG TIME. Just wondering if you had tried anything better...
Ahh this is the life!
Not to many people know that the Perkes boys have gills, I wonder why they keep playing these money games and inviting them! That comes as a disadvantage to money finding competitors. Looks like Uncle Nate and Uncle Max are paying tolls for the next month!
P.S. To all you cute Moms out there...Has anyone had bad luck with baby suncreens? I tried that Coppertone Water Babies 50+ and Ben broke out in hives BIG TIME. Just wondering if you had tried anything better...
Ahh this is the life!
Not to many people know that the Perkes boys have gills, I wonder why they keep playing these money games and inviting them! That comes as a disadvantage to money finding competitors. Looks like Uncle Nate and Uncle Max are paying tolls for the next month!
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