Boulder, Colorado

I went to Colorado last week with a coworker/friend and we had a little down time, so we headed out to walk downtown through an outdoor mall in Pearl Street. Before we ever make it out of the parking lot, Jennifer steps on a rock and goes down to the ground at lightning speed, arms flailing above her head. It's a good thing we know each other well on a personal level, because I couldn't stop laughing, I am laughing now, actually. Thankfully, she's tough and a good sport and it didn't ruin the trip but she was, and still is, in some serious pain.

Jennifer taking a break from limping around...

This is the outdoor mall...

We stayed at cute little bed and breakfast. I even had a little fireplace in my room!

We had dinner at this yummy, little Italian place. The portions were HUGE!

Face Paint

Roping Friends

We went to a roping with Kyle, Stacey, Bailey and Mark, Kristen and Jersey. The girls had a ball playing together. They collected rocks and did makeovers.

Just gorgeous!

Bessie, Banks & Daddy

Maddy LOVES to go fast - in the car, on a horse, she just loves it. Here she is riding with Daddy and she laughs out loud and shouts "Giddyup!" the whole time!

Hanging with Mr. Banks...

I love this - this is Banks' every day life - Maddy's little claws coming out at him and he just sits there and lets her do it.

Chuck E. Cheese

After our trip, we wanted to spend some fun, family time with Maddy so we woke up Friday morning and took her to Chuck E. Cheese. There were only two other people in the entire place, which was nice. She ran around like a crazy person and I didn't have to worry.

It was wonderful and fun and she was having such a great time until we ran out of tokens. Well, she ran over to the token machine and put her little cup under the dispenser and when nothing came out she got rather peeved. I picked her up and nicely explained that now she got to pick out some cool toys to take home - the best part, right?! No. She freaked out and bit me twice. I was dumbfounded and didn't even speak, meanwhile Brandon turns around and hands her a new toy so she basically got rewarded for biting me. Gotta love it! I guess we have some work to do...

Last Day in Reno

Amy took us out to Pyramid Lake on our last day. On the way out, we saw some WILD mustangs along the edge of the road.

The "Pyramid" is the smaller rock to the left of this island.

The lake is on an Indian Reservation.

Me and Amy...

Brandon and I at the airport in Reno, about to head home.

Walking, Shopping and Driving

On Wednesday morning, we woke up to blue sky - FINALLY! We could actually see the mountains. Unfortunately, we didn't ski that day. We headed out to do a little shopping and stopped by to see the lake up close. Then, we headed back to Reno.

Sierra at Tahoe

For our second day of skiing we headed to Sierra at Lake Tahoe because Heavenly was pretty much shut down due to high winds and a winter storm. Sierra was only about 30 minutes away, but we took the hotel shuttle which stopped about 80 times before we got there so it wound up being about an hour and a half drive.

We had a great time, but we both definitely preferred Heavenly. I thought I was going to die going down the second slope!