Kevin's birthday in Alaska Trip Photos

Finally got around to downloading all the pictures from our trip back up to Alaska for our friend Kevin's birthday. We had a blast together, tons of adventures including getting a puppy! It was great to hang with old friends again, play in our favorite spots, and eat our favorite Anchorage grub.

Kevin's AK Birthday Visit

Ice climbing in Ouray CO!

So this turned out to be an epic birthday celebration weekend.  We went to Ouray to hang with our good friends Brian, Vanessa, Seth and Fabrizio.  We packed in some ice climbing and some hockey at the local rink.  The ice climbing went off without a hitch, however I managed to trip Brian while playing hockey and send him into a flying dive elbow first into the ice.  We all laughed pretty hard but he came away with a jacked up elbow for his birthday.  All in all though we had a blast!

Here is an album with some of the ice climbing shots.  Ill post some hockey action later...stay tuned.

Ouray Ice Climbing

Visit with Michelle and Nolan

Before we left for Alaska, our friend (and Matchmaker) from Tucson (now she lives in NYC) came to Colorado to visit her family. We were lucky enough to snag her a few times to hang out and play with her adorable son Nolan! It was a short visit, but a great one - can't wait for the next one Miche!

Kitchen Remodel project update

So we are making progress on the Kitchen and it is all going to come together here really soon! Just today, the countertop people came by an measured for the one piece stone countertops, should be about a week or two for those... In the meantime we are installing the heated floors and painting everything. We have a temporary sink installation right now so that we can stop washing dishes in the bathroom. It's starting to look like a kitchen again, we are really starting to see what it is going to end up like. Pretty exciting!

I'll leave you with some shots that I took this morning while the electrician was finishing up.

Heading North

Ben and I are heading up to the Last Frontier again, to hang with our buddy Kevin for his birthday. We are super excited for a return to our last "home", hang out at our hold hangouts :), eat our favorite AK food and drink our favorite AK beers, see the beautiful Alaskan winter landscapes, and of course, spend time with friends. We're just keeping our fingers crossed that Mount Redoubt, an active volcano 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, doesn't blow her top off! Here is a recent picture....

Happy Weathermans Day!

Today, Thursday, February 5 is National Weatherman's Day, commemorating the birth of John Jeffries in 1744. Jeffries, one of America's first weather observers, began taking daily weather observations in Boston in 1774 and he took the first balloon observation in 1784. This is a day to recognize the men and women who collectively provide Americans with the best weather, water, and climate forecasts and warning services of any nation.

John Jeffries

Yay for Lisa! :) :) :)

Kitchen remodel continues

They took everything, INCLUDING the kitchen sink!!! :) Its been a little tough living without coutertops and a sink, but we're getting SO excited about the end!

Get ready to pee your pants!

Our Europe Honeymoon

I know I know I know, its been almost 2 months since we got back, but here they finally are!!! To fill in some of you, we went on our honeymoon in November for 3 great weeks. We started in Spain, going where ever the wind blew us, then went to visit a friend on the island of Cyprus, then headed over to Italy to meet up with some friends there. It was amazing and can't wait to go back to explore all of what Europe has to offer!

Click on the photos to go the web album of each stop we made!

Madrid

Toledo

Sevilla

Granada

Barcelona

Cyprus

Italy

What is this world coming to?

Careful walking around Boulder, you never know what will hit you!!!

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=108097&catid=346

Kitchen Progress

Here are some pictures of the "before", and then some "during", and then some of the wall totally gone now that the support beam is installed in the attic!!!! :) :)

Our new house

A lot of far away friends have been wanting to see pictures of our house we just bought in Boulder. And, since we are beginning our TOTAL kitchen remodel on Monday, we thought we'd show you what it looks like before. These pictures were taken during our inspection back in October, so it still wasn't ours then...and we've done some things already. So we'll have to post more pictures later. But here's an idea of what it looks like. Look for updated Kitchen pictures in about a week!

Our new house!

Xmas 2008

For this year's holiday, we were so happy to have Ben's parents come up with us to my parents house in Nebraska for some good relaxing holiday time!

Here we are at my grandparents house having our (the Reed side) traditional Christmas Eve dinner of chili and oyster soup. Then we all gathered for a Kriederman tradition of a group "7 & 7" drink!

The moms chatting while Ben relaxes after the 5 hour drive

Four generations, minus my sister. My grandma to the right, then my mom holding her granddaughter Kayla.

We brought the dogs up to play on the 40 acres with my parents new dog shadow. They had so much fun they almost died!!! - basically they found some rat poison that they thought would be delicious. Luckily we caught them and poured some peroxide down their throats so they would puke it up, it worked!!!

Xmas 2008

The visitors! Thanks Mom and Dad for putting up with us all!

Ben and his parents

My sister Amber and her husband Ty.

My cute niece Kayla

Some weird chick that showed up :)

Xmas 2008

My parents dog, Shadow, patiently waiting for some turkey scraps

Our moms cooking up the stuffing!

Mmmmm, christmas candy!

My dad carving up the turkey

Xmas 2008

Kayla's turn to open presents!

Kissing a teddy bear from Aunt Lisa

Ty trying to wear Kayla's new hat

Awwwwe, so cute!

Xmas 2008

My mom quilted everyone their own holiday table runner!

Gramps wondering what the heck is in the box :)

Ben's parents opening their spa gift from us.

Amber displaying her nail file set from Ben's parents. She LOVES it, Ty HATES it :) (he can't stand the sound of nail filing)