Senas on the Boulder Creek & Color Touch

My favorite apps on my phone are my photo apps. This one = Color Touch. Love it!

Friends ♥

Erin. Heath. Tara.

Tilly's Sweet Shop!

Happy 1st Birthday, sweet girl!

Birthday Fun!

Birthday Surprise... The Tavern for drinks and dinner. Surprised by my Spotts. Rockies game.

(Kids at Papa and Gigi's house! Stayed at the Hotel Manaco downtown.

Thank you, my love!)

Fight Night!

A couple of weeks ago, we went to Fight Night at Tara and John's. After that, Jas was hooked! When the next fight rolled around, we decided to have people over for the pay per view event. I was highly impressed with my girls, Tara & Spotts! These two know their stuff and are quite the MMA experts! It was a great night with wonderful friends!

Casa Bonita for CBW's 3rd Birthday!

Fight Night!

8th Grade Continuation

"There are the families we are born into,

and there are the families

that we choose our circle of friends."

I spent a gloomy May day with my Sena family.

John's 8th grade continuation.

A 4 mile Sena hike.

Lunch at 3 Margaritas with Cindy.

And a movie - "Life as We Know It."

Thank you, Sena family, for a wonderful day!

Love you! ♥

Happy Easter!

Eye dyeing. Church with Papa & Nana. Dinner with our Williams Family. Happy Easter!

Spring Game!

Jen came to visit for the weekend! The highlight of the trip was the CU Spring game. We munched on yummy eats at the tailgate. Watched about 5 minutes of the game and headed back to Tara's for more fun! I love my CU girls! ♥

(And this was the best potato salad. Evah! Note to self: Buy store bought potato salad at Albertson's!)

Football with the Freetly's

New friends: Olivia, Harper and Andrew ♥ Old friends: Steph, Heather & Greg

After reconnecting with my high school friend, Greg, who recently moved to Colorado from San Diego, we finally coordinated a time to get our families together. It was so wonderful to meet Greg and Steph's darling little girl, Harper. We spent the afternoon eating and watching football and reminiscing and sharing stories. We are looking forward to spending more time with the Freetly's! It was a wonderfully fun afternoon!

The Navarre

What a truly amazing experience. The Navarre. Dr. Colorado.
Anschutz's private Western Art collection. My Sena. A perfect afternoon!

Celebrating Baby Girl Yebra

♥ My Girls ♥ Grandma Lenz reading a sweet story ♥ The Lenz girls with their Mom ♥

A sweet day celebrating my dear friend, Michele, and her baby girl
who will be making her arrival late February.

Christmas Book Club

Tara's house. Friends. United Chinese. Wine. Ornaments. Alyssa Cares. Boulder & Big dog.

A lovely evening with beautiful friends. (We missed you, Kristin & Abby!)

My CU Girls

Good friends are like stars... You don't always see them,

but you know they are always there.

We spent a lovely weekend in Boulder with our dear friends and visitors... Sam and John (and Sammy's sister, Jenny) from New York and Jen and Dave from California. The weekend was like a passport to the past... Delicious food and drinks. Chatting and laughing. Watching our Buffs win. Shopping along Pearl Street. Even though I don't see Sammy and Jen on a regular basis like I once did, spending time with them is as easy and fun and absolutely wonderful as it always has been. Love you two very much! ♥

(My Spotts made the collage, too. By chance, she and her husband Luke were at the game on Saturday.)

Stellar Girls

Quite a few of the Stellar ladies met up at the Tavern Exchange in Westminster for a little Wendy Woo music and a drink to end off the summer. It was such fun to spend time with work friends outside of school. Thanks, ladies! Here's too a great 10-11 school year!

(Me with my Nenny, who actually works at Thornton now - BOO!, and my Fitzie)

my friend

When I met my dear friend, Sara, I was immediately taken by her laugh, her eloquence and her animated story telling. She possesses an expressiveness that is so uniquely her and entirely charming and captivating. We first met over four years ago in Foundations of Librarianship, our first class at CU-Denver in the library program. And, now four years later, we are both librarians, mothers and the best of friends.

While I continue to love those qualities that immediately drew me to her, I am now even more appreciative to have someone who I can share my tales of motherhood and marriage and life with candor and honesty. And she also openly shares her adventures with me. Most importantly, I admire the diligent, thoughtful and loving mother she is. Not only is she an amazing mother to Cameron, but she loves and cares for my Liv and Drew with such warmth and adoration. Not surprisingly, Liv is absolutely crazy about her Auntie Sara. And, watching our children play and laugh and become friends is such a beautiful extension of our friendship.

Speaking of our darling children, Liv & Cam engaging in their routine "Jump!" at the pool and Bubby getting a little more confident and secure on his feet everyday.

Thank you, my buddy, SW... I love you!
xoxox

book club in laramie, wy

gorgeous summer day. beautiful friends. delicious food. heartfelt, honest conversation with a few tears. quite simply, it was good for my soul. love you, friends. (missed you, kristin & abby.)

a special thank you to: katie, our gracious hostess; ethnie, our driver; and kyle, who let his wife drive his truck so we were all able to make the trek to laramie in one vehicle!

and, after a long day i arrived home to this: a daddy-daughter rock band session!
daddy on the guitar, liv on the drums!