Home From Christmas

This year Todd and I were home for Christmas. We did our best to see as many people as we could in the time we were given. We got to meet our nephew Zachary for the first time. We also got to meet our good friends Nathan, Claire and Traxton. In the middle of the week Todd and I slipped away to the coast for some good seafood and some ocean air. We enjoyed the time with friends and family over the Christmas week. We love you all and miss you so.

Todd, Bethany, Lauren, Melanie

Aunt Kathleen, Karey, Bethany

Bethany and Dad

Jenna and Bethany

Branden, Tara and Zachary

Todd in the hotel at the coast

The sunset

Todd, Bethany and Traxton

Bethany and Zach cuddling. Our favorite time together!

Todd, Beth and Zach

Manager Chirstmas Dinner 2010

Some of the Girls
The Boss

The team of 2 years

Friends

We all had a great night out on the town in Denver.

Thanksgiving Week

Buck came to visit for Thanksgiving. We had a great week of fun.

This picture is the boy's showing off their tattoos from Bass Pro Shop "Santa's Wonderland"

It started snowing so the boys thought it would be fun to mock a picture of Claire and I a year ago. After the photo shoot we went to the spa.

Buck at Estes Park

The Pheasant shoot

Thanksgiving dinner. I got to play with my China!!

Halloween Weekend

The girls at work

Tim and his kill

Tim and Adam on the pack trip

Bethany's First Zwieback Batch

A family tradition is to enjoy hot Zwieback from the oven.

Today I concord my first batch (with the step-by-step help from my mom via phone) and they turned out pretty good (I am still surprised)!!

This is a learned art that takes time and many batches to get it right.
As you can see in this picture the Zwieback on the right the oven was too hot, creating the "ugly". The Zwieback on the left are the "Pretty", that is "Pretty good tasting!

Now I only need to make them for another 30 years and I will have it down!

Thanks Mom for a fun day!

Camping Oct 8 2010

Todd and I took off and went camping. It was a true adventure. The first night we camped in the snow and the second night in the rain. We woke up Sunday on air mattress islands in our wet tent (the tent had a leak). We both looked at each other and said let go home!
It was a beautiful trip and fun memories.

Weekend Home with Family

Tara's Baby (ZACHARY) shower



Me and Dad

Me and Mom

I had a wonderful time home with family. I miss them all!

Manager Dinner Denver 2010

Mount Rushmore

On July 9th Jeff, Maxine, Todd and I took a nice road trip to see Mount Rushmore. Wow! What a majestic place to see. We walked around the mountain and then went back to our hotel and had dinner, then came back for the evening ceremony.

The evening ceremony made the trip. Opening with the "Pledge of Allegiance", then the singing of "Oh Beautiful" as we watch a video of our country to the lighting of the mountain. It is so moving and patriotic we were all in tears. At the end of the ceremony, they asked all veterans to come up to be honored. It was amazing!

After the ceremony we took the walk around the mountain again to see the amazing sights. In my opinion it is better at night.

This is the view of the entrance into the mountain. Each state is represented by its state flag and the date it was entered into the union.

We had a wonderful time at Mount Rushmore. It was so refreshing to see and feel the passion and pride of our country. I would encourage anyone who has not seen the mountain to go. It's worth the drive!

The Long Afternoon Drive

Fourth of July weekend, Todd, Jeff, Maxine and I took a drive into Estes Park to see the wild life. Jeff and Maxine had not seen a Colorado "In the green" Summer.

We hiked to the top of the park were we watch four men ski off the mountain in the snow patches. As you can see, there is not much snow. We saw deer, moose, and elk. Everyone was having such a great time we never turned around, and ended up spending the night in Steamboat Springs.

In Steamboat we enjoyed a great Mexican dinner on the roof top as we watched the fireworks. This was the first time I have never packed for a road trip. We stopped and picked up the basics like a toothbrush and toothpaste to make it through the night. A wonderful trip that was greatly needed but unexpected.

Our First Backpacking Trip

The last weekend in June, Todd and I took our first backpacking trip into the Raweah Wilderness. We hiked in on Saturday in the rain about 5 miles spending the night in a meadow where we saw a deer and 4 bull elk.

The next day we hiked about 3.5 miles into Shipman Park, were we ate some snow and turned around to go pack up camp.

On the way out of the meadow Todd and I jumped this creek were he hurt his foot and then later on the trail I ended up hurting mine. So...Todd and I limped the 5 miles out off the mountain to the truck. On the way home we went through a drive through for dinner because we both could not walk and spent the rest of the night with ice on our feet. Just another adventure and great memories.