My Mom, Step-dad, Grandpa and brothers came to visit for Thanksgiving. It was fun to be able to host Thanksgiving in our new home. I thought for sure I would have some sort of kitchen disaster while cooking a big meal but we had a disaster free Thanksgiving (mostly due to the fact that my mom was there to coach me along). Everything turned out so great and it was a lot of fun to spend time together.

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We officially hosted a drum circle at our house for our young marrieds group. It was sooo much fun. Our friend, Neysa from church teaches/facilitates drum circles and she so kindly brought her drums and other instruments over for a night of fun. I really don't have any rhythm but it was sure fun to pretend!



I know that I never posted more photos of the house but it's just not that exciting to post photos of empty rooms. These pictures were taken in our basement (the home theatre/bar area). The white wall serves as our tv screen until we get a real one. The image just about fills the whole wall so it's like our own little movie theatre.

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As most of you probably know, we had a big snowstorm last week. It was fun being stuck inside, playing Scrabble and drinking hot chocolate. The nice thing about Colorado is that a day after the storm, the sun was shining and jackets were no longer needed. All the snow that fell around my house (see below) is now melted.





On Halloween, I was really excited to hand out candy and to be super festive, Joe got a Jack O' lantern pizza from Papa Murpheys ( even though he had to wait in the worlds longest pizza line). Unfortunately, we had to turn off the lights at 7:30 because we ran out of candy. Who knew that we would have over 100 trick or treaters!! My grandma kept a tally as I answered the door. : )





To finish up Halloween night, Joe took out my stitches! Here is a picture of him in action.

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My grandma is visiting for the week so I took her to the Denver Botanic Gardens yesterday. Good thing we went yesterday because today the ground is covered in inches of snow! The gardens were absolutely beautiful but will be even more fabulous in the summer!

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Joe and I joined some of our friends from church to celebrate our friend, Rachel's birthday at a corn maze. We broke into 3 teams to see who could find all of the check points first. Our team won but let's just say I had nothing to do with that win. For some reason I have no sense of direction, I really just followed the group around and was nothing more than an extra body. For those of you that don't know I got a B in a hiking course when I was in New Zealand and I think my instructor gave me a B to be nice! I don't know that I care to do another corn maze in my life but it felt very festive and fall like so that part was great!

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I think I can say that I've had a fairly accident free life. I've been to the hospital once (to get my appendix taken out) and have never had stitches...until today. After church, I was looking through the Sunday paper, cutting out coupons. In between cutting, I dropped my very sharp Kitchen Aide scissors and my natural instinct told me to try and catch them. As I reached for the falling scissors, the pointy tip stabbed my pointer finger. I didn't think it would be that bad until I looked and saw the yellow bubbly fat oozing out. Then, I got a little freaked and got my husband. Joe frantically ran around the house trying to find a bandage and a local urgent care. He was practically out of breath as I reminded him to, "calm down, everything will be alright."

I ended up going to Urgent Care and $100 later. I got 4 stitches and a tetanus shot. I'm sad that I can no longer say, "I've never had stitches". : (

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We had our young married group on Saturday and did some pumpkin painting. I was impressed by the creativity of the couples and this was so much easier than carving! Don't you love the prom style picture we took on the staircase? It brought back memories...LOL!

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It's official, I'm going to run a marathon. After running the half marathon about a month ago, I couldn't imagine running that same distance all over again but I got inspired and just finished week 1 of training. Running a marathon is something I want to do in my lifetime and I couldn't think of a better time but now. Joe is being very supportive and realizes that this is going to take sacrifice and commitment on his end as well. I never want to be someone who asks, "what if..." so come January I can be a part of the 1% of the population who can say, "i've ran a marathon". I'm apologizing ahead of time if this is all I talk about for the next four months. : )

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We got a new rug and couch for the family room. We got both pieces at different stores but they look awesome together. Once we paint and get some picture frames for the wall, we'll have one room completed! Go us. LOL














We also got a guest bed and new linens. Eventually I would like to give this room a total vacation/relaxing vibe. Kind of a nautical theme. I got the bedspread at Homegoods which has tons of fun, inexpensive things. I can't wait to go back and get more stuff. We are trying to buy stuff we NEED right now instead of things we want. It's just not as much fun spending tons of money on things like a lawn mower, fixing the garage door, toilet seats, etc.

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I did it!! I finished my first half marathon! It was a super cold morning but made for perfect running weather. I ran the race with my friend Caitlin (to the L of me) and her three friends. The course was absolutely beautiful as we ran through rural Boulder and past the Boulder Reservoir. I haven't got my exact time but I finished somewhere around 2 hr. and 3min. Even though I'm super sore and tired, I can't wait to do another half marathon! (I don't think a full marathon is in the picture anytime soon.)











Crossing the finish line...that was a great feeling.

The four blondes after the run! The guys were so sweet and bought us flowers! Fun side note... the three other girls are all from South Africa. I think it's pretty neat.

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Wow! Life has been going 100mph lately. In the past 3 weeks Joe and I moved into our new home, scrubbed our new house, I started a new school year, I was a bridesmaid in my friend's wedding, cleaned our new house some more, had guests over and now Joe is gone for a week on a business trip/his friend's wedding! Also, on top of everything I am trying to train for a half-marathon which I just realized is this Sunday. I made it 10 miles last Sunday so I'm hoping my legs carry me the last 3. : ) Here are some pictures that capture some of the fun moments in the last couple of weeks. I am planning on posting pictures of the house as we finish rooms. We just splurged and got a new rug and sectional for our family room!! The couch doesn't get delivered until the 19th but we are sooo excited.





Joe bought us tickets for the traveling version of Cirque Du Soleil. It was very cool how everything took place in these giant tents. We went to the this the day after we moved into our house so it was nice to have a little getaway in the midst of chaos.




















Here are a couple of pictures from my friend, Katie's wedding. The fab four from high school were reunited for a weekend of fun and memories.


































Joe's friends, Nick and Paul visited us for a few day while on their way to California. We went to the Cave of the Winds in Colorado Springs. The cave was awesome!

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Yesterday I ran a 5K with some girlfriends. It was so much fun especially since it was an all girl event. Our husbands even came and cheered us on. I was very happy with my time- 24.50 and hoping this will be good prep for the half marathon i'm running in September.

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