Go Breck!

We wanted to venture out for one more trip using our snow shoes before it gets warm. I also wanted to get the experience of a Colorado winter, so we took a trip up to Breckenridge.
We started out with a 6 mile snowshoeing trail. It started with a few miles up a mountain and along a ridge, and it finished along an old railroad bed.
Our hike midpoint was "Bakers Tank. A water tower for the old steam trains. (see first picture)
Some of the views:

A view of the resort:
On the way up to the trail, we saw these cool trains. Tim was excited about the snow blower engine and the fact that he could climb on them.
After our long workout, we ate delicious burgers in town and walked around. Lots of lights were still up and we celebrated Christmas in March! We finished our night by getting the fanciest, most expensive cookies ever. Mine was a chocolate chip cookie dipped in chocolate with walnuts on top (see picture below). Tim's was a cookie dough sandwich. That's right. Two cookies surrounding a cookie dough center. One cookie was over $3! Delicious.

Run Ralphie Run!

Here's Ralphie:

Here's Ralphie in action:
...And here's Ralphie in her natural habitat:

Not just anyone gets to meet Ralphie. It just so happens that Aubrey's friend Allison has family that lives right next to Ralphie! Tim thought she was a petting zoo-type animal and realized she is an actual Buffalo when he touched her and she started ramming the fence with her horns. Apparently, she's escaped before, so we were a little scared, but comforted that she only eats Nebraska fans.

For the most part, she followed us around and liked us. Especially because Tim was wearing her on his shirt. Ralphie is famous because they bring her to the CU football games and let her run around the field. She has special cowboys who run around and steer her in the right direction. She ends up in this trailer and gets driven home.

I'm sad her home wasn't more luxurious for her celebrity-like status.
Just so everyone knows, we're practically BFFs!

A Little March Madness

Guess who got to go...

Tim's sister Aubrey and some of her die-hard BYU fan friends flew to Denver for the NCAA Tournament. Tim's Valentines Day present was to go to the game(s). They rode with her friends to the game in this nice rental van:

THE Jimmer.

They all had a great trip.

Olympics Prep 101

One event I remember watching during the 2002 SLC Winter Olympics is the Cross Country Skiing and the Biathlon. I remember people telling me these skiers were probably in the best shape of any athlete in the olympics. I remembered how I am a very inexperienced skiier, and don't really like it because it is too cold, but thinking: cross country skiing is very aerobic and could probably keep me warm. Yes. I wanted to try Cross country skiing.
Tim and I cashed in a Christmas present we had been saving for and went up to Eldora (a ski resort just up Boulder Canyon) for a cross country skiing lesson. We happened to be the only ones for our lesson, so we got a lot of one-on-one instruction and learned a lot. We now know how to XC ski. Doing it is another story.

Tim kept telling me to bend my knees and slide like I'm sliding around a hard-wood floor with my socks on, but I WAS! Notice who spent more time on the ground...
Either way, the scenery was beautiful and we had a good time.

Our Life

I have been wanting to blog lately about all of the fun things Tim and I do together, but this is all that comes to mind...
I work a lot. This is a cartoon picture of what I look like at work. I'm not on the phone all day, but I have to do data entry from faxes when I'm not on calls, so I'm busy ALL DAY!
Because I have a 45 minute drive to work, I have been listening to books on CD. It's nice because I really enjoy my time in the car. I am currently listening to Sense and Sensibility and also rented the movie from the library. I don't have a lot of free time, so this book has been a big part of my life lately.
The rest of my free time has been spent doing or teaching yoga. I teach twice a week plus I've downloaded 20 minute sessions on my ipod and do them some nights at work on my break. To bad I'm still very unflexible.

That is my life right now.

And here is Tims...
The End.

Sugar Overload

A few months ago, Tim and I watched an amazing episode of Unwrapped on the Food Network. It was about how Hammond's Candy Factory made hard candies by hand at their factory in Denver, CO. Little did we know, we would someday be able to tour this magical factory...

Okay, so there wasn't much going on for the last tour of the day on a Saturday, but we did get to see them pull out and stretch the candy canes and a girl shaped the hooks by hand!
Plus there were free samples. (It's a good thing, too, because the gift shop was expensive!)
Tim almost decided he wanted a different career...
Another reason to come visit us in Colorful Colorado!

Estes Park Winter Festival

Having an anniversary around Christmas has made us pretty terrible about celebrating it, but to celebrate the big milestone of 4 years, we decided to take a trip to Estes Park. We originally wanted to go cross country skiing at Rocky Mtn. National Park, but later found out the nordic center is on the opposite side of the park. Luckily, the second annual Estes Park Winter Festival happened to be going on. There was a huge chili cook off put on by all the local restaurants, and we walked through this awesome ice castle.

We walked our chili off in the Ntl. Park with our snow shoes

You better believe I bundled up.

4 Happy years together!

Tim walking on a huge frozen lake.
It was dusting snow during our hike and the camera caught some of the flakes.

They were supposed to have a hot air balloon glow in the evening, but it was too windy. They ended up doing a "fire show."

This picture looks a lot less exciting than I thought it would:

Tim made this anniversary amazing. I am sure lucky!