Thanksgiving Weekend

Happy Thanksgiving! I had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I was able to fly to Denver for a long weekend and see my family and friends. On Thanksgiving day we ate a lot of yummy food. Hurray for food! Then on Friday Neal and I came up to the Springs. We saw our friends Mike and Mallory, and Neal's family. On Saturday we went up to the Mountains and cut down the family Christmas Tree. It was really nice to have snow for the tree hunt it made it really festive. Then Sunday came along again (too quickly might I add) and I had to fly back to KC.

The Christmas Tree Goes Up

This last weekend I decided to get into the Christmas spirit a bit early. So I put up my Christmas tree. I know that it is before Thanksgiving but I could not help myself. Well I actually have a Christmas tree forest, 3 trees. They are kind of small so it works. The trees are all decorated with lights and ornaments and it makes my little apartment feel all Christmasey. I still want to put up lights around my windows but that will have to wait til I get back from my Thanksgiving vacation.

Its My Birthday!

As my brother puts it 'So how does it feel to be 6 years away from 30.' Well for me its just another day in the neighborhood=). Well I have had a really good birthday this year. This last weekend I was able to go home for the weekend, a really quick weekend might I add. I came in Friday night. On Sarurday Neal and I got engagement pictures taken and had lunch with his parents. Then that evening I had a birthday dinner at my parents house, we ate homemade pigs in a blanket and chocolate chip cheese cake, yummy. It was really nice to seeeveryone for my birthday. On Sunday my grandparents took me out for breakfast. Then I had to pack everything for my trip back to KC. Before going to the airport everyone met for coffee. Who knew you could do so much in just 2 days.

On my actual birthday I will probably just hang out since I have to go to work on FridayWell everything in my world is going good. I got a free ice cream from Cold Stone and movie tickets from work for my birthday so I will probably treat myself to a movie and ice cream.

Face to Face

Today I set up AIM so Neal and I could video chat. It is so cool. We have built in web cams and microphones so we just talk towards our computers and we can see each other. It is so nice to be able to see my love and talk with him. It will be really nice to be able to talk more during the week with out running up huge phone bills. And now we can see each other more too= ) So it is way cool and I am way excited! Hurray for technology=)

Coffee Anyone?

Today I was driving back from the Apple store and wanted to get something to drink and I decided to go into a and try this coffee shop called Perk Up that I have driven by several times. It has a quaint atmosphere and the owners (Dave and Sam) were there so I talked to them for a bit. They are really nice and were great in letting me try drinks and suggesting drinks. I also found out that they try and get everything from local vendors which I think is awesome. I think that I have found a new local coffee shop that has really good coffee and smoothies.

What is that Noise?

For the last few days the weather here in KC has been kind of gloomy. Raining off and on and cloudy. Then yesterday right before I was getting ready to leave work I heard this high pitched noise. I thought that there was some thing wrong with the CD that I was listening to on my computer at work. So thinking nothing of it I headed out for the weekend. Dodging the rain I ran to my car and turned on the radio. Nothing on the weather. Then I ran to the bank and was talking with the teller and they asked if the sirens were still going. That is when I put two and two together. The tornado sirens. Go figure. Well I got home and turned on the news and there were 3 tornadoes that had touched down, one in Bonner Springs, Gardner and in Missouri. The first two were about 15-20 miles away from me and the last at least 30 miles from me. So for about an hour or two the tornado sirens kept going off. Thankfully nothing by me just tons and tons of rain and black skies. So I have survived my first Kansas tornadoes.

And the Hunt is on...

This last weekend (Labor Day) I was able to fly home for the weekend. It was such a jammed three days. The main goal for the weekend was to look at locations for the wedding. Neal, my mom and I all went up to Estes Park on Saturday and looked at 5 or so places. There were some that we really liked and some not so much. Then that night we met our friends Mike, Mallory and their son Ethan in Castle Rock for dinner. That was so good to see then and hang out. Then on Sunday we (my mom and dad, Neal and myself) went up to the mountains for lunch at my aunt and uncle Deb and Walt's. There we saw Jan and Benedict (Walt's brother and his wife, also Helene's parents) and my grandparents. After lunch Neal and I went and looked and more possible locations in Pine and Evergreen. Then on Monday before I left Neal and I looked and some location in Genesee. And if you have not figured it out we are looking to have a mountain wedding. Overall it was such a crazy weekend driving all over looking at different areas and locations. But I think that it was really productive because it helped us to narrow down the places that are still on our list and cross out the one that we did not like so much. Other than looking for a wedding location it was just nice to see everyone and hang out with family and friends.