Summer Fun

This summer was a busy one! Summer school for both me and Ian... our nephew was born in Tulsa... had a weekend get-away to celebrate with Ian's cousin as she pledged her love to her husband...  started providing pediatric home speech therapy... Ian started his new business... we went to Breckenridge for a few days to celebrate our first anniversary... my parents came to visit... my Tulsa best friend came for a visit... we went to Tulsa for a quick trip to meet the nephew... then started school...

Here are a few pictures from the summer. Started with Ian's birthday dinner the end of June and ending with our Tulsa trip.

Left to Right - Christina, me, Ian and Ryan - we love spending times with Christina and Ryan! Ian's birthday dinner at Katie Mullin's downtown Denver.

 Rehearsal Dinner- Patrick, Allan, Caroline with Ethan, Stephanie, Chris and Nicole.

Post rehearsal dinner- I had to get a photo of the two of us!

Wedding day at the Maroon Bells!

Keelty Cousins - Lauran, Meredith, Chris (Nicole in front), Zach (Stephanie in front), Berkeley, Patrick, Sheridan and Lo (in front with Oliver center), Ian (me in front), Allan with Ethan and Caroline beside, Ryan and Christina (sitting), Molly, Liam and Aiden.

 Aspen Summer Music Festival.

Our wedding rings... never took a photo like this on our wedding day...

 Our anniversary get-away- the lake on Loveland Pass.

Happy 1st anniversary to us!!! From the balcony of "THE ROOM" at the Lodge!

 My rebel... Once a rebel, always a rebel! I love my crazy husband!

Pike's Peak summit...

The precious little footsies of Henry!


And this ends the Summer FUN!

Our First Anniversary

So this week we celebrated our first anniversary in our favorite place to be together, Breckenridge, Co. We stayed at the same hotel we always stay at when we visit Breck and even managed to get
THE ROOM that Ian has been wanting to get for 3 years now!

On our anniversary we got all dressed up (well sorta) and went to dinner at a magnificent restaurant in Frisco, Colorado. I have been CRAVING the bruschetta from Tuscato's for just about two years now! After dinner we went back to Breck and walked around and looked in the galleries.

Wednesday we took some more "professional" photos up on Boreas Pass. Here are some of my favorite shots!

These are from the deck at the hotel on our anniversary.

Busy Busy Busy

It has been a WHIRL WIND of a summer already! This year flew by so quickly, probably because I was working so much... I was working at school, most days starting at 7:30 and ending between 5:30 and 6:00... I had 3 days of clubs after school and 2 days of homebound speech services.  Then I had babysitting events with Seeking Sitters most weekends... around 40 hours a month of babysitting!

Ian took a class at the local community college this spring and was hooked so he is taking another this summer! He is also setting up his own handyman business (if you are in the Denver area and need work done on your house/yard give us a shout!) which has been keeping him busy with research!

Now that school is out, I am staying busy still... providing speech services in ESY (Extended School Year) for the ENTIRE district... which means that I have had 1 day of summer vacation (not counting the weekends) since school let out. Although it is easy cash, I am truly feeling that my services are useless as I am at a different school each day of the week, ultimately spending 4 hours per class over the course of the 4 week program... July is looking to be fun... Oh did I mention that I have started working for a home health agency and have 3 clients at the moment! Branching out in my profession finally!

July's excitement will start next weekend when we leave Evergreen HS from my ESY group and head to Aspen for the weekend. Ian's cousin, Sheridan is getting married and this is one event that we wouldn't miss for the world! We will come back from Aspen in time for Ian to go to class on Monday, then the rest of the week is free and clear for the moment... I'm not sure what we are going to do for the Fourth of July yet... but the next week we will be celebrating our FIRST anniversary!!! WAHOO!!! He is going to skip a day of class so we can go do something special for our day since we didn't get to go on a honeymoon last year... then the next week it is back to ESY for me, just not with Jeffco. I have agreed to be a contract provider for another school district near my house... this ESY is looking to be a little better organized and I will be paid better than I was through my own school district! Another perk (if you can call working in the summer a perk) is that the ESY program is Monday - Thursday... The last week of ESY my parents will be here for a visit and we are planning some day trips that we can go on after I get home as well as a weekend trip. They will leave on the 29th and on August 2 my OK BFF will fly in for the weekend! We already have the weekend plans figured out for Jason's visit!! I will take Jason to the airport on that following Monday. If things work out the way we'd like, Ian will be home loading up the tools that he needs as well as our stuff so that we can hit the road to come back to Oklahoma the next day!  We have a brand new nephew that we need to love, cuddle and spoil back in Tulsa!!!

As you can see, we have been very busy, me more so than Ian... at times I haven't known if I was coming or going but it has all been super fun and a learning experience!