courtney rebecca

Glenn & Karen came to visit this summer over the 4th of July. It was so much fun to have them here again now that we are much more settled in our house! We spent a lot of time just playing games and being together. We all love to play board games, whether they're competitive or collaborative. One of the fun things we got to do together was go on a hike at Lair O' the Bear Park! It was an absolutely gorgeous day, walking beside the creek. AND there's a castle. So much fun!  

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...

While I was gone at Kadesh, Jason went to New Orleans for his first conference with his new job. When we both got back, we were exhausted! We had a couple of days before... our friends Drew & Jared came to visit! We met Drew and Jared when Jason taught a U100 class at ACU when we were juniors. I helped out during Welcome Week and off and on throughout the semester. It was so much fun to get to help introduce new students to ACU! We've kept in touch with a few of the kids (right, kids and they're 2 years younger than us) in that group. Drew and Jared wanted a road trip destination, and we happen to live in an awesome place, so they came to visit. While they stayed for the weekend we went hiking, ate lots of good food, watched movies, AND introduced Drew to Arrested Development. We spent a lot of time just hanging out and talking. These guys are our kind of people!

I'm a terrible blogger. I think it's my addiction to Twitter and Facebook. I've already said everything there is to say! We went hiking on Wednesday up in Evergreen with our lovely favourite Denver friends, James & Loren. Yes, they're our friends from college, but they finally moved up here! We are so thrilled to have them here. It's like no time has passed at all since we last got to spend tons of time with them. Except we finally all have jobs, and we no longer live in Texas. Anyway, we went up to hike in Evergreen because it was close to 100 degrees in Denver. What?! I thought I moved out of Texas to get away from the heat! It was about 10-15 degrees cooler in Evergreen, so we were there. We hiked about 4 miles in the Alderfer/Three Sisters Park, and it was gorgeous. I'm so glad we went.