2011.

(new year's eve, colorado)

colorado was wonderful and beautiful and refreshing. we loved our time with friends and family and ellie did so great on the plane rides. we are slowly getting back into our routine here and i am trying to make the most of my last few days before school starts. i have been in a serious cleaning/purging/simplifying mood lately so i haven't been spending too much time on the computer. however, the blog also needs some cleaning/purging/simplifying, so it's looking a little rough now, but is in the process of being beautified. hope you stick around. i'm so grateful you've stuck around this long. thanks for being interested in us. 

i hope your 2011 has been amazing so far and is filled with good things to come. i can't wait to see where the year takes us. 

-kelsie.

broncos!

on sunday we went to the broncos - ravens game with some great friends. the weather was perfect and it was a ton of fun even if the broncos did lose. 

(sam and a scary ravens fan)

(my favorite broncos player!)

here's ryan and i's track record for watching colorado sports in dc:

redskins - broncos: broncos lost

wizards - nuggets: nuggets lost

nationals - rockies: rockies lost

ravens - broncos: broncos lost

we should probably stop going, but watching our teams out here helps us feel a little less homesick.

hope you all are having a happy day!

-kelsie.

clinty.

(brother and dad)

my little brother is awesome. he graduated high school, is going to colorado state, is going to study horticulture (so he can work in a vineyard and hook his sister up), he loves star wars and he runs all the time. like, he runs so much he's lost 70 pounds since last fall. he's great.

hooray for graduation!

clint's coolest gift - a 10 year old bonsai tree!

(get it - he's going to be a horticulture major...)

the outdoor party that wasn't. hail loves colorado.

i'm so proud of you clinty! csu will be the BEST! we love you!

-kelsie.

oh, hello.

 

i've had an amazing past few days and can't wait to tell you about it. here's a brief synopsis:

 

finished this semester

went to colorado

hail

visited with family

watched my brother graduate

hail

looked at his cool bonsai tree

i'll be back to my husband tonight and will return to regular blogging

(it might even be better since i won't have silly school to interrupt!)

hope you're having a great tuesday!

-kelsie.

fern friday.

 

 friday came fast. that's always good.

i just spent the past two hours at the virginia dmv. we now have virginia license plates and i have a virginia driver's license. i feel like all things colorado were just ripped from me. yuck. people now will expect me to know where i am going and can't just look at my car and sigh, "she's just from colorado".

ryan's refusing to let go. he still has his colorado driver's license... we also have this above our washer and dryer:

  

don't judge too much... it can be hidden behind these doors:

so i'd say we're still connected to our colorado roots.

i hope you have a fun, warm, happy weekend!

-kelsie.

reminiscing.

it's really cold and really gloomy here. i need to go do things but sitting by the fireplace with a blanket and looking through old pictures is way more fun.

i've been looking at pictures of ryan and i moving out here. it was quite the journey. colorado to dc. it takes a long time. especially when you have a uhaul trailer and can only go 50 mph in order to prevent flipping over. that was pretty stressful.

it was a fun trip but it gave me an entirely new respect for moving companies.

here are some fun pictures. we were still tan from jamaica. we also went to prairie dog town. those were the days.

 

-kelsie.

colorado.

ryan and i recently returned from a wonderful trip to colorado. we got to see a lot of people we really miss and spent a lot of time with our great families. it was cold and fun and we got to see our dogs.

we also got to see our NUGGETS! we are semi-obsessed with the denver nuggets and were so excited to find out both of our families would be going to the game against the dallas mavericks. we had so much fun even though clint cheered for the wrong team who ended up winning...

(clint - wrong jersey, nathan, and ryan)

what made up for the nuggets' loss was the most incredible thing which happened afterwards. ryan and i have been laughing over chris andersen's car for the few weeks before we were in colorado. it's ridiculous and crazy and DROVE RIGHT PAST US after the game!!! here is my picture:

(i was a little too excited)

here is a better picture:

  

(photo from here)

 

it made me very happy and i now know where to watch the parade of nuggets leaving the pepsi center after a game.

we're back in virginia now and back to missing colorado. we loved seeing the people we did and are sad we missed the ones we did. we'll be back soon!

-kelsie.