Go Eagles!!

It's that time of year again for us, yes it's high school volleyball season. For those of you who don't know, Jeff coaches the J.V. team at Broomfield High School. He's been coaching there 5 years going on 6. He has more Eagle pride than he ever had from his own high school (Horizon Hawks). I've only been a part of the Broomfield volleyball scene for 3 years, but I'm starting so see why he has so much eagle pride. The spirit and the energy from these girls is just really addicting to be around, they are a great group of girls. It's hard to watch the seniors graduate every year, next year will be the hardest when 9 girls that we have become very attached to graduate. We have watched them come on when they were freshman and mature into some great volleyball players, and great young women. So for the next 2 months our blog will become a tribute to the girls on the Broomfield High School volleyball team, with updates from all the games (both J.V. and Varsity) and any highlights that may stand out from those games. The first game of the season was on Thursday night (Aug. 28th) at BHS against the Niwot Cougars. The match went to four games,25-20 25-19 24-26 25-14 . We're very happy that Varsity's season has started with a good note. Jeff's team lost in two to their J.V. team. We hope they get it back together for the next game. I'll have more updates after next weeks games!

2 YEARS!!

I've been such a slacker about blogging lately. In fact this post is being posted a few days late. Jeff and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary on Tuesday August 26th. It's hard to believe it's been two years already. Time flies when your having fun! I mostly just wanted to share with everyone what a wonderful husband I have. He is so loving, caring, thoughtful, and he even cleans more than I do! What more could I ask for? I can't wait to spend the rest of eternity with him. I love you Jeff! Thanks for putting up with me and for loving me!

Happy 4th of July!!

Happy Birthday America! I hope everyone had a great weekend. Jeff and I took off to Utah for the weekend. We stayed with my parents and had a great time. We BBQ'd every night, Jeff was very happy about that, BBQ is his favorite. We hung out by the pool, and visited a few of our friends. It was great to see you Tash and Tim, and Marc and Sara! It was a short but sweet visit to Utah. It was so short that we didn't get any pictures, maybe next year.

Birthday Weekend

I should have posted this on Monday but I just didn't take the time. Oh well better late than never. It was my birthday on Monday (the 23rd) so we decided to get away for the weekend. To start the weekend off Jeff surprised me at work with a bouquet of flowers. They're gorgeous. Thank you my sweet husband! When I got off work we packed up our things and took off to the the family cabin in Allens Park, CO. On Saturday we spent the day in Estes Park (about 30 min from the cabin). We started off at Lake Estes and rented ourselves a kayak. I'd never kayaked before, and it showed. Jeff got a little frustrated with me but then decided to calm down and teach me how to properly row. So after an hour of getting wet with only a little bit of sun coming out to dry us off, we headed back to the marina. We hung out by the lake and had lunch. After lunch we rented a couple of scooters. We had a blast going through the back parts of Estes that we never get to see. It was a beautiful ride. We ended our ride going through main street. It was crowed with plenty of tourists. On our way back to the rental shop we were passed up by three trike motorcycles. They all turned and waved, laughed, hooted and hollered. It was hilarious. Before we headed back to the cabin we made the traditional stop at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. I had the best caramel apple, and Jeff got chocolate covered toffee....ummm yum. We thoroughly wore ourselves out, so we ended up taking a nice long nap. On Sunday we just enjoyed the peace and quiet that the cabin has to offer. We mostly read and napped. On Monday we forced ourselves to go back to our normal lives. Since it was my birthday we celebrated with a delicious lunch at The Cheesecake Factory. Jeff had an appointment later that afternoon to get the pins in his toes taken out. I'm sorry I didn't have my camera with me this time. But they pretty much look the same as the do in the other pictures. He had the stitches and the pins removed, and he brought normal shoes with him in the hopes of wearing them out of there. He was very disappointed when that didn't happen. But not to worry he was able to put some flip flops on a few days later. He still can't wear normal shoes but he isn't giving up hope that it will happen soon. So that wraps up our enjoyable weekend, hope you enjoy the pictures.

Here are the beautiful flowers that Jeff surprised me with at work. He told them exactly how he wanted it, he did his homework online. Those are long stem roses, so pretty...aaahhh.
















Jeff totally pumped up and ready to go. He even wore is special biker shoes.

Here we are just before taking off on our scooter ride around Estes Park. The owner had us try them out around the parking lot first. I tried it first, then Jeff. She asked me if we have ridden one before. I told her I had never driven (there's nothing to it) and that Jeff used to own a bullet bike. She said "I would have guessed that you would have been the one with experience." I guess I'm just a natural. :)









Just trying to look more beautiful than the scenery.....Not possible, it was gorgeous up there!












Jeff didn't want to get off the scooter for his picture. I'm running into trying to make a weird gesture but I was a little slow.

Jeff REALLY enjoyed his scooter ride.

Jeff trying to tickle the DEAD elk on the wall. He doesn't have a name, any suggestions?

This is the Larsen Family Cabin. It's been in the family for a long time.

The St. Vrain River, as you can see it runs directly behind the cabin....very peaceful to listen to.

Jeff on the deck enjoying the sun and the river. This is what we did all day Sunday.

GROSS!!!!

Well Jeff went in for is first check up appointment, and let me tell you I wasn't expecting them to look this gross! I knew that it would be bruised and their were pins in them, but I forgot about the stitches. He has about 20 in each toe. The pin has green topper on it, kind of looks like one of those sewing push pins. I had no idea how long the pin was until I saw the picture of the x-ray. They're both about 4 inches long. The doctor was quite impressed with his work he said to Jeff "If you don't mind me patting my self on the back, they look pretty dang good." It's good to know that the Doc has confidence in himself. Anyway I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.