Spring Must Only Get One Week of Vacation...

...but teachers and students of the Telluride School District get two! So ha! Jeremy and I headed home yesterday amid beautiful blue skies. Although the temperatures were a bit cool, I could tell spring was on its way back. Proof of the winter storm still remain, as my car is still burried under over a foot of snow (even after two 60degree days in a row). However, today it was sunny and 60 yet again. We took a walk on the river trail for the first time. Melting snow gave me cold and wet feet, but that wasn't going to dampen my spirits. Jeremy even took out the motorcycle! Tomorrow I'm hoping to hit at least one if not two more trails here in our new home town.

Hmmm....

So we finally made it to spring break...unfortunately it was spring that took the break.

Jeremy and I decided not to spend money we didn't really have on a beach vacation, although this is what I really needed. Instead, we thought we'd spend a few days on the front range with his friends and family before heading home to enjoy our new home. Unfortunately the Rocky Mountains have been inundated with yet another snow storm. We decided our few day trip should be extended in hopes the snow will subside by the weekend. We've done a bit of shopping (including a new car for Jeremy), seen some movies, relaxed in the hot tub, and went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. I guess it's been an okay first week of break all in all.

Hope everyone else is enjoying more spring like weather than we are!

My Birthday

Thanks to everyone who called to wish and/or sing me Happy Birthday today! It was great to talk to so many friends and family.

Jeremy and I spent the morning sleeping in and rearranging the furniture in my ofice before we talked for an hour and a half with a car salesman in Montrose. No, we're not really in need of a new car, but by next winter we want all wheel drive and will probably be buying a Subaru. Jeremy did a great job at talking them down on the price of new car, but unfortunately they wouldn't give us enough to trade in the G6. Therefore, we will be selling it on our own this suumer and then car shopping afterwards.

Once we made it home, we cleaned a bit and Jeremy did A LOT of cooking. Nine fabulous people showed for our dinner party in celebration of several things (my birthday, finishing the National Boards, and our new home). We had lasagne, salad, garlic bread, etc. And TONS of chips and salsa, which is apparently a vary popular item when asked to bring your own appetizer or side dish. There were two birthday cakes... one for me and one for Kirsten who is an April Fool's baby like my father. Both were deicious!

One more week until a much needed spring break. No big trips planned. Just finish settling in here at home and maybe a few days camping in Bryce or Zion. We'll just have to wait and see how we feel. Hope everyone has a great start to spring! Can't wait to see you all this summer!

Jamie's 5th Day Skiing!

Our New Home

Updates

As closing day gets a little closer (February 28th), I began packing my books into boxes today. It's the first packing done at all, since everything in our apratment is already taking up as little space as possible. Whatever we put in boxes has to be stacked in some other space which has some other use besides storage!

As for National Boards, I have finally finished the third paper, which leaves one to go. The count down to March 31st has reached break neck speed, but atleast I feel like I'm actually making progress:) The goal is to finish drafting the last paper by the end of February, leaving a few weeks for revising and editing. Then of course there will be the time needed to attach cover sheets to each and every piece of each and every entry... before putting each entry into its own seperate envelope and sending it off in the mail to be scored by three seperate people. I should know whether or not I passed in approximately 10 short months!

No skiing this weekend, as we spent most of our four day vacation (thank you presidents) on the front range visiting Jeremy's family and friends. My goal is to take another lesson next weekend. I'm making progress! My last lesson was spent mostly on double blues and one black diamond run. Not too bad for someone who has been skiing less than two years.

Hope everyone is doing well, and maybe I'll see you soon!

Blue Sky!