American Idol Finale

One of the beauties of living in Castle Rock is being at an elevation of 6,500 feet above sea level. That means it is easier to get tan, but it also means that on nights like these, when it rains in Denver, we get a lovely rain-snow mix. Tonight up to 2-3 inches, which will all be gone by the middle of the day tomorrow. I promise that it will be the last snow of the season!!

Interleague Play

For those baseball fans out there, they know that there are many marquee matchups out there, Mets-Yankees, Cubs-White Sox, A's-Giants, ... Rockies-Royals? Not so much. We went to the game Friday night to support Robyn and the rest of the Craig Hospital as they were honored to celebrate their 100 year anniversary. The game was going pretty well and the Rockies were up 2-0 going into the top of the 8th. Just as were were making our way down to the suite that all the Craig higher-ups were sitting in, the Rockies gave up a leadoff double, pulled their starter, gave up 5 consecutive runs before getting an out, and eventually lost 5-2. At least it was a nice night weather wise. Tonight we attempted to take a picture of all of us using the timer on the camera. Here is one of the attempts.
And here is the final picture. You know what they say, 19th times a charm!!!

Baby Riley

Congrats to Matt and Wendy on their first child! Hope he's better looking than his dad!!!

Ceiling Fan

So, for a hot Friday night date, we decided to install the ceiling fan that we had purchased earlier in the week. It wasn't too difficult and I do have to say that I helped Troy in putting it up. Anywho, after 2 hours, the ceiling fan was installed. We flipped the switch and realized that the light was yellow. Now let me tell you about this yellow...I felt like I needed to have doilies on the couches and those stained glass lamps. It was pretty hideous. So I looked at Troy and asked him if he really liked it. After much thinking (about 2 seconds) we decided to take the fan down the next morning and exchange it for one with a white light. Since we are getting close to the summer season, the sun likes to rise at the butt crack of dawn. ('scuse the language) so we were definitely up and out of bed by 7:30. So much for sleeping in on weekends! Just a side note...Friday both Troy and I noticed that the sun was rising earlier than normal. When Troy left for work at 6:20 am the sun was blaring already. So we went back to the ceiling fan and took it all down and packed it up. That afternoon we went back to Lowes and exchanged it. We came home and starting installing it. In the instruction book it gave 2 options in installing it: a flush mount or a dropped "standard" mount that was about 6 inches lower than the flush. Troy said, "let's do the flush mount". I said, "why don't we do the standard mount since it says standard." We decided to do it the standard way. Well after an hour we had it up and installed. (We're pros now) I stepped back and took a look at it and I told Troy, "it's way to low. You can't even jump without hitting it." Troy just looked at me with a look of "are you serious?!?!?!?!?!" After he took a look at it, we decided that we needed to take it down and do the flush mount. Well to make a long story a little bit longer, it took us FOREVER to unscrew the dropped portion of the ceiling fan. It was horrible. I even had to go to the neighbors' house and ask to borrow a big wrench and can I say, I may have knocked at an inopportune time. Anywho, after 45 minutes fighting with the dumb thing, we were able to unscrew it and finish putting up the fan. Now you can see it in all its beauty and glory!!!!

A Day in the Life of Lexie

So since I only work Tuesdays and Thursdays as of right now, I get to see what Lexie does all day.
As you can tell, it's a whole lotta nothing. We had a empty box that Lexie liked to play in. If you even tried to poke your finger in the hole, she'd pounce on you. She's pretty quick.

This picture, Lexie's ready to pounce on the hair tie I'm going to throw. If you don't know alreay, she likes to play the game of fetch. She'll actually pick up the hair tie and bring it back to you...some of the times. When I'm getting ready to throw it, her eyes will get all big and her ears all perky. I think she looks pretty cute when she does that.
Lastly, after a hard day's work of playing in boxes and fetching hair ties, I can find her napping either on the couch or sunning herself on the stairs








I'm not quite sure what is her favorite activity but we're glad that we have her.

BBQ

We purchased a BBQ this week and used it for the first time last night (You have to love all the coupons we get from Lowe's, Home Depot, etc. now that we are in a house.) We made bacon cheeseburgers and they were quite delicious. In a classic example of the dichotomy of our new house, it sits on the dirt outside our back door! Someday we will have a deck for it! We also started on the landscaping, and we'll be glad when the power equipment arrives, it would take forever to do it all by hand!!

Hot Pot

So I must say that after our snow last week, the weather has been downright spring-like. We were in the 80s all last week and in the 60s and 70s this week. It is now warm and dry enough for us to get started on the landscaping. The big project won't be going down until June, but we are going to do some small stuff on our own until then. So we bought a wheelbarrow, shovels and a rake. We are ready for anything!

We also tried hot pot this week, and it worked out really good. We had meatballs, beef, shrimp, and bok choy (thanks Joanna). It was fantastic, and for those that want to try it, we will bust it out when you come visit.

On Sunday we spoke in Sacrament. Tracie was so excited that she spoke fast and finished in about 7-8 minutes. It was a great talk, and I'm proud of her for doing it. Did I mention that there wasn't another speaker on the program? That's right, I had to stretch my talk to finish the meeting. Luckily we sang all 6 verses of Redeemer of Israel (who knew there were 6!) Tracie had already spent time introducing us, so it was just me and my notes on Pres. Monson's talk "How Firm a Foundation" for the next 25 minutes. I can't tell if I did a good job or not because a couple of people said it was like a high councilman's talk! Luckily with the size of our ward it should be a while before we speak again!