Snow

Welcome to the Rockies we had our first snow and it was so beautiful!  I was not ready for snow but it was too pretty to care.  The only downside was that Jesse and I had to take the bus for the first time since moving to Denver.  So Tuesday morning we got up and headed to the bus stop, which lucky for us is just at the end of our block and also lucky for us our company gives us a pass to ride all public transit for free.  The bus wasn't so bad, however, it was not as enjoyable as riding our bikes (even though I must face the hellacious hill on the way home) biking is still the best way to get to work.   Enough with that rant, Denver ended up getting some serious snow last week!  Good thing - we got to use all our new gear and hit up the slopes  Bad thing - our huge tree out front suffered some damage and now we are on limb duty.

I'd say we got over 6 inches based on our patio furniture.

Hitting up A Basin

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Honeybadger Don't Care

Random title, funny youtube, check it out.  So Bacon came to town and we had the best time ever, seriously.  We were having too much fun to even capture all our adventures on film.  She got in on Friday night and being the trooper that she is went to dinner at Linger even though it was after 11pm her time.  New Yorkers don't care, they take what they want (seriously watch the youtube).  We soaked up the Denver skyline and shared some tapas.  We went home to get our beauty rest for the early morning gameday. Saturday morning we went and grabbed brunch at a place around the corner from my pad called Hash then bellies happy we went to the Kstate watch party at Highland Tap and Burger.  That place was rocking, especially since we were dominating KU - oh yeah!  Then I took Lauren on a tour of a day in the life of us, via bikes.  Bike route on the way to work and around some of our favorite parks and happy hour spots.  The night was topped off by seeing the creepers that were out on the zombie crawl and catching a cab at 3:30 am.  You have never lived until you walked with the living dead, some people in Denver are so weird!  Sunday, we went on a hike in Golden and had Lauren sample "the best beer cheese soup ever."  Then the worst thing happened, she had to leave.  Come back soon bakie!

5280 Adventures

Lately our lives have been full of F's; Friends, Family, Fall, Football, Fun, Fried Food, well you get the picture, and I hope you were not associating F's with FAILING - how dare you!

Here are a few pictures of live recently here in the mountains, that John Denver was not lying about anything!

View from our hike in Breckenridge - Breath Taking

View from the back porch at the ski house - also breath taking.

View of our building at work.

And last but not least the Aspen trees, you really have not lived until you see the Aspens in their full gold in the fall - seriously.  Now book your trips for next year because my phone camera does not do them justice :)

On another note, my sister, who is the most amazing athlete (no shocker there) made it to the state championship cross country meet.  This year, not only has she been undefeated so far, but she has only let one of the boys beat her (brag much!).  So the state meet kicks off and she goes blazing off the starting line.  Right off the bat she is neck and neck with another undefeated girl that won nationals last year.  They pull way out ahead of the pack and continue to be side by side for most of the meet.  I was so nervous for her!  I ran ahead close to the finish line to cheer her on, and as soon as she could see the finish line she kicked it into high gear.  Katie ended up winning by more than 20 seconds and still only let one boy beat her.  That girl is amazing!  I am so proud of her and so happy that I got to see it in person!  

House Hunters

So long time no post, but I have a good excuse at least.  New job, new city, new house, packing old house, settling into new place, and finding all the Denver hot spots.  We are loving living in Denver and more on that to come, but this post is about something else, something that never came to fruition - the Moore's on HGTV.  

When I first knew that we were serious about moving to Denver I thought to myself how cool would that be if we were on House Hunters.  I did some investigating and found out that any old average joe can apply to be on the show, so I did.  All you have to do is submit some information and a few pictures.  Yup, thats it.   So I sent off the email and attachments, and I really did not expect to be contacted by Pietown Productions let alone by the executive producer, but it really happened!  This got me a little too excited and Jesse not so excited... I am sure that he was really looking forward to being on TV looking at houses and talking about things like "Oh, I love those floors!" or "I hate that tile."  In fact I am not sure if I even asked him his thoughts on HH :)

Warning - for you HH fans, it is semi fake - GASP!  You actually have to be under contract on a house BEFORE you start filming the show!  I know I was shocked too - but really when I thought about it it makes total sense.  The people ALWAYS end up in a house and HH is back so soon that it would make a lot of closing deadlines tight.  So I was told to let them know when we were under contract on our house in Denver so we could work out filming schedules - well we found our house in one weekend and were set to close in 30 days - nuts I know!  So of course they were the first people I let know that we had found a house, sorry mom! 

Well the executive producer was out sick for a few days and we couldn't make the logistics work, since they wanted to film our old house in OK and the shoot in Denver was going to take up some time, time that we didn't have starting new jobs and working on closing details on our house - sidebar - getting a mortgage in Denver is WAY more intense than getting one in Oklahoma.  They needed our tax returns from 2005 on.  Um, hello, I was in college in 2005 and pretty sure I didn't need a tax return from the few weeks I worked at Southern Sun, Kites, and the Salty Rim.   So disappointing end for me, happy ending for Jesse.  

Will post pics of the house soon!