courtney rebecca

In August, we painted Jason's office and finally got it complete. We searched for quite a while for the exact right color of green that we wanted, and we found it called Sherwood! Perfect, right? In case you don't remember, every room in our house (except one random bathroom) was painted the same awful creamy dingy yellow color. And the trim was all off white as well. Gross. We had all the main areas and the ceilings painted before we moved in, but we are slowly painting the bedrooms ourselves. Here's a before shot of the office. Basically all we had in here was a bunch of boxes, a tiny IKEA desk, and our old couch. This picture is when we had just started to move everything around to get ready to paint. Yuck, big mess. So here's everything we ended up changing in this room: Painted the walls Sherwood green Painted the trim Decorator's White Hung curtain rods  and curtains (that we already had from Pier 1) Hung Jason's LOTR swords on the wall H...

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!  

My parents came to visit this summer, June 7-11! We had so much fun with them. I think we had the most fun just playing outside and enjoying the beautiful weather. My parents are amazing, and they love to help us with projects around the house. We worked out in the yard a bit while they were here! Dad ended up digging out a huge stump in the backyard. We trimmed up the trees a bit too. Jason made his awesome meatloaf after we got done working.     On Sunday, we went to the Rockies game! We had a blast enjoying the baseball game. Afterward, we took Mom and Dad to church with us. It was fun to get to experience church together. We had so much fun just hanging out around our house and spending time together.  We played a LOT of frisbee in our yard, but we also went over to the park across the street from our house and played there! There's also a basketball court, which was so much fun.            ...

I am a really bad blogger. Prepare yourself for several catchup posts for the last few months! I also skipped over visits we had this summer, so I'll go back and post about that too. My parents' visit Jason's parents' visit Office update Our trip to St. Louis A very special quilt Traveling for work Hiking at St. Mary's Glacier Work update Halloween at work Visit to Texas Yikes, that is kind of a lot. Here we go! Bonus Kingsley picture for your patience. ;)

(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...