courtney rebecca

(Apparently, I drafted this post at the beginning of August and never posted it. I'm finding it on November 9... Back-dating FTW!) And again, I've been a bad blogger. I hate to publish any posts without pictures, and I'm just not on our computer very much lately! I'm on the computer all day at work, so when I get home I'd rather do other things, or I just use my iPad. Well, here's what's been going on since I last posted at the end of April. We went to Colorado Springs for the CCU staff retreat. We got to stay at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort (for free!) and we could bring Kingsley. It was nice to meet all of Jason's coworkers, and the best part was when we had a break and Jason and I got to walk around the lake they had on site. So beautiful! We found a new church! We've been attending Bloom Church, and we love it. Our friends James and Loren have been going there too, and it's really fun to get to see them more regularly. We're thankf...

A few weeks ago, we finally painted our bedroom! We still have a ways to go in here, but it looks SO much better. If you don't remember, every single room in our house was painted the same dingy shade of cream/yellow. Gross. We had the main spaces and all the ceilings painted before we moved in, but we still have all the other rooms to do. We decided to do our bedroom first, since we spend the most time in there. Right before we started painting. Gross yellow. After painting! Bonus cute Kingsley on the bed. I used the flash in this picture. I wish I had more to show off, but we kinda took the room apart even more. We moved the headboard out because it wasn't attached to the bed (the bedframe broke in the move) and it was annoying. We plan to get a king size bed, and we have more art to add. We did put up a picture above the left side of the bed to try to even out that window. They aren't centered and there's no where else to put the bed.  We did get...

At the start of the year, I put one of my goals was to hike a 14er. Welllll that is probably not going to happen this year. Maybe next year. But we have been hiking a fair amount! At the end of May, we did a great hike to Maxwell Falls. We had been there before, but we  took the cliff loop rather than taking the path to the falls. We were so glad to make it to the falls this time! They were still a little frozen since it was May. It was pretty cool to see the moving water and the ice at the same time. There were a ton of people out there that day, and we even had a guy nice enough to take our picture together. Another noteworthy fact about this hike: I discovered I DO like almonds on this hike. Yes, I know I'm a nerd. I thought I didn't like almonds because they made my mouth itchy when I was a kid, but it turns out I do. Yum! Another note about this hike... it's a bit uphill on the way out. That is a little disappointing (also, hard) after you've already been hik...