Here's the deal...the computer broke and blogging is difficult -actually impossible - without a computer. We do still have the work laptops, but neither of us really has the complete hang of Macs yet and we can't upload pictures on the Mac, which takes a lot of the fun out of the blogging experience. So, anyway, we have had a broken computer which should be returned to us shortly. And then there will be some awesome pictures to send out on the blog :-)
A drama:
A few weeks ago we had the oil changed on the car. One week after that, we were driving in to Denver to get Anne Marie and Cathy and suddenly, going up Vail Pass, the car was lurching and going about 30 mph. So we (mostly just me) were freaking out because I am not a big fan of semis riding right up onto our bumper, especially when the only thought going through my mind is how easily they could push us over the side of the mountain! The car reacted much the same way getting up to Eisenhower Tunnel. I only cried once :-) Nick managed to get the car down to the flat-lands, where it performed perfectly, of course. We considered getting a rental car but were hopeful the car issue was just a fluke. Unfortunately, the car freaked out going up the foothills as we were coming back home, so we had to drive back across Denver to the airport (for the 2nd time that day) and get a beauty of a rental. The car did get fixed by some super-nice mechanics in Golden at Planet Honda and we now have new front brakes, a flushed transmission and clean fuel injectors.
2 visits:
Nick's sister was in Denver for an interview with FOCUS, a missionary group she is looking at being a part of after graduation. We spent the day with her on Sunday after her work was done. So we got to hang out with her, eat at Woody's (fire-grilled pizza!) and just spend time catching up. We picked up Nick's mom, Cathy, when we had Anne Marie with us, then left Anne Marie in Denver to catch her flight home, and brought Cathy back up to Eagle.
Cathy came to stay with us for 5 days. She found something to do most days on her own since we were in work, but I think she was really able to explore the area. She did lots of hiking and walking and even spent a day working in Nick's classroom with him. Nick took a day off and went hiking in Minturn with her; they started in Minturn but made it to the back bowls of Vail. It was a lot of fun to share all of the things we like about the Eagle area with her!
Thanksgiving:
We had a great day spending time here at home with some of our new friends. It all started waking up to a slight dusting of snow, which we hoped would stick around but was gone by 12. Church was nice, but we didn't know we were supposed to have taken our bread and beverage for lunch to have our meal blessed by Father Bob. One little boy brought his Capri Sun up to the altar as his drink for Thanksgiving meal! It was cute :-) We had all of the traditional fixings, plus the Macy's parade and lots of football. Tiffany and Niles brought some awesome stuffing and sweet potatoes. I hear the apple pie was also superb! Deb & Kent brought little weenies for appetizers. Poor Kent had to make these silly appetizers to make Nick happy; what they didn't know is I had already made some too! Jeff and his lovely girlfriend Jess (who was visiting Eagle from California) brought rolls and jalapeno artichoke dip with some awesome bread garlic crackers. They also did all the dishes and I will be eternally grateful to them for this! We talked lots, played Scattergories and just had a great time.
Now what???
Well, now that Thanksgiving is over, I can put up Christmas decorations. I'll get started on that today. I'm sure Nick is very excited to carry up all those heavy boxes for me! We will be getting a real tree, so I'll also go down today and get our tag for the tree. Only $10 to the forest ranger for our tree permit, which will allow us to go out in the forest and cut down a tree to haul back. Torrey and Alana will be going on that trip with us, so we'll wait to get the tree til next weekend when they are home.
Also, today is our deadline for ordering the new house. Nick's going to call on it later to make sure everything is a go. The interest rates dropped earlier this week and we signed on to a great rate. So, after today, much more house information to come!
And.........pictures to come once the other computer is fixed :-)
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