What a week it was!

Last week was quite a week!!! My good friend from Tulsa sent me a text asking me if I was interested in going with her to the Colorado Rockies game and staying the night with her. Being a fan of baseball, I agreed to make the voyage across the state from Aspen to Denver to see Sasha on Wednesday. This was my FIRST SOLO adventure, just me and Sammi... for 288 miles! We made it to Superior safely and onto the game without a hitch.

The score board at the baseball stadium. I didn't take many pictures (shock I know) but I was having fun catching up with one of my favorite childhood friends!!!

The next day I left Superior but not before making a very important pitstop at the local Michael's for more scrapbooking paper... then onto Breckenridge to see Ian!!! We decided to meet at "our place" in Breckenridge for a few days to get away from the real world. We met at the Lodge and had a great two nights there in town.

THEN... on Saturday when we drove home I thought that someone had it in for me... I had not one but THREE cars try to change into my lane and car without so much as looking in their mirrors to see if there happened to be anyone nearby...

I have never been so happy to be home again... in one piece...

August in my world...

The date was set... my stuff packed and moved out of my former classroom in Claremore... my goodbyes said in Claremore to my favorite faculty... then came the hard part... parting from my precious babies at the church and leaving my family. But before I left I had a lot of packing to do... lots of boxes shipped via the postal service, lots of stuff moved into my storage, the storage all sorts of arranged and rearranged and my car loaded down, literally...

The backseat of my car (above) and my trunk (below)... all creatively packed with love by Ian and his amazing dad Rick!

Ian and I managed to find room in my little Civic for ourselves and off we went in search of the infamous yellow brick road to Aspen! Once again we found ourselves getting along nicely on the cross country trip and enjoying ourselves on the drive. Ian made sure that we didn't stop at many (if any) of the "Points of Interest" along the highway in Ks by being sure that he was the driver... punk... alas we made it to Limon in one piece...

We drove with some assistance from our newly acquired GPS that I have lovingly named Samantha Stiller (we need a good middle name that starts with O for her... suggestions?). Sammi gave us ideas for places we could stop for food, gas, lodging and even shopping! There are so many things that she provides for us in the car!!! Entertainment is another feature that she provides us. Ian has decided that he wants to create an app for the GPS that would allow it to do more than just voice recognition, but also talk back to the voice heard... wouldn't that be fun...

The gas station we stopped at... it says 24 hour fuel... but it is closed... have no fear, there is an antiquated credit card machine between the pumps to assist in fueling up when the place is closed...

Me on the road again... very happy about the car moving!!!

Once arriving in Aspen, I realized the wonderful things I had been missing out on in Oklahoma... like being able to wear JEANS and not melt in the heat... even when the temps got up to 90 and above jeans were comfortable! We have had dinner with the family, played softball with friends and had a BBQ with friends since I have been here.

Now to begin the transformation of the BACHELOR PAD to the COUPLE PAD... more details to come...