Becky's Birthday

Last Sunday was my birthday, and Bryant spoiled me like crazy (I have married an amazing man!). The day started with a delicious breakfast in bed:

We spent some time in the afternoon at the Louisville Community Pool. I have been wanting to go swimming for about a year now, and figured my birthday was the perfect day. We really miss Lake Michigan and the easy access to swimming that we had in Michigan, but the pool here was a nice substitute. And, since Louisville was just named the #1 small town to live in, by Money Magazine, I figure this is the best community pool in the country!

We ate at The Kitchen for dinner in Boulder, and the food was magnificent. I would strongly recommend that restaurant for a special occasion. Since both of our families live out-of-state, all of my gifts were mailed to me, so I opened up gifts at three hour intervals - what a fun way to do gifts. The last gift I opened was from Bryant, and it is a stove top cappucino maker. I had no idea what it was, but am so excited to use it. Our good friend, Joseph, is a barista, and he is going to show us how to make a stellar latte.

On Monday, my girls came over with lots of birthday cake and flowers.

I feel incredibly blessed to have such a thoughtful husband, and great family and friends. Thanks for all of the birthday love!

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Another Visitor!

It has been a fun busy summer of friends visiting us. The most recent guest was Sarah, who has been one of Becky's closest friends since their freshman year of college. We fit a lot into one weekend. Highlights included a gorgeous hike and a Rockies game.

Becky, Sarah, and of course Zoe the dog.

The view at the top.

Rockies game.

It was an incredible game, as the Rockies had their biggest come-from-behind win of the season and won it in the bottom of the 9th...which by the way is how they won the last time we went to a game last season. It really is quite incredible how well the Rockies do when we're in attendance. If you calculated the Rockies home winning percentage and compared that to the winning percentage of the games we have attended over the past six year, the difference would be incredible. Perhaps I should be the mascot instead of this creepy thing:

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The Independence Day Cup

Happy 4th of July to everyone!

This morning I got to be a part of what I 

think is a rather hilarious tradition. For the last several years, on the morning of July 4th, a group of English guys square off against a group of Americans in a pickup soccer match here in Boulder. 

This year I was invited to participate.

The funny part of this story is that I ended up playing for the Brits, as they were a bit short on players this year. This was much to the dismay of Becky who is now fearful our house may be hit with fireworks tonight in response to my traitorous actions. I figured it was semi-legit since my ancestor Joseph Loomis came over hear from England about 12 generations ago.

Either way, in the end, the Americans were victorious 3-2, to which my response is that I threw the game in favor of my countrymen. It really was a win-win situation for me.

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An Amazing Reunion

...as always, way behind.

A couple of weekends ago Becky and I got to be a part of a reunion of sorts of most of my closest friends from college and their families. It was absolutely amazing to be together with everyone again. The last time this whole group of guys was together was actually for our wedding over four years ago. The families travelled from California, Maryland, and Michigan to meet up in Colorado, which conveniently is where we live.

We all stayed at the Rumohr cottage in Buena Vista which is about 3 hours west of Denver and is surrounded by incredible views of several 14ers. During out time at the cottage we hiked, played frisbee golf, ate great food, and just had a great time hanging out.

We took this picture prior to our hike. From left to right: Luke, Lindsay, Joel, Me, Noel, Matt (w/ 1-yr-old Leah on his back), Eli, and almost 3-yr-old Emma.

The view of 14er Mt. Princeton from the hike.

This is the view from the cottage back deck. (Me, Becky, Eli, Matt, Lindsay, Luke, Sarah, Joel, Heidi, Noel).

A stunningly handsome group of friends. We all lived together at various times throughout college and met on the 3rd floor of Durfee as freshmen.

I am very blessed to have such amazing friends, even though we are spread out all over the country. I hope we are able to do something like this soon, and that next time Ryan & Amber can join us (they were busy having a baby).

Many thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Rumohr for allowing us the use of your beautiful place!

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