Some old - but fun - photos

So I found some old photos from the summer and since I was a slacker blogger then - I thought they were worthy to post now.  Enjoy!

 Will & his family at a Fourth of July BBQ (I took the photo)

Will at our favorite breakfast joint: Annie's Cafe on Colfax

He hates posing for photos - but I make him do it anyways...Payback Buddy : )

This is before we headed out to Invesco Field - for our BOX SEATS to watch the Broncos!

Do you like my festive Halloween decorations in the background?

Outside the stadium - Sorry it's crooked.

End of summer at a Rockies game. Love the view of the mountains!

Summer was fun but fall has been EVEN BETTER!!  Oh - and I must mention the countdown until we get married is 52 DAYS! I even got our final draft (there's been a few) invites in the mail this afternoon - so we get to start putting those together!  Expect your invites in a few weeks.  : )

WE FOUND OUR PERFECT APARTMENT...

I feel so RELIEVED to have found our perfect apartment.  It actually turns out we're spending way under what we budgeted for housing AND.... we can have a kitty!! We are so excited.  It is only 3 blocks from where I live now, so that will definitely make an easy move.  And MY personal favorite is that we are now one block closer to Chipotle and Blockbuster - where we (meaning I) frequently walk to.

Our new apartment actually puts us in the smaller ward - so we'll see what kind of callings we get.  Both times I visited I think I counted 50 people in the congregation ...maybe.  This will definitely be a growing experience for both Will and I - okay more for me.  But we love the area so much!  Washington Park is so beautiful - definitely a great place to people watch (and for me personally, to dog-watch).

Check out this website to see our new apartment (unfurnished) and the area we will be in (well, actually the area I am currently - but where we BOTH will be soon). 

http://homepage.mac.com/cplockhart/rentals/PhotoAlbum22.html

I personally love the cupboards - so much more kitchen space than what I have now.  And everything is NEW!  Will and I have already started dividing up "this is your space" and "THIS is mine" for closets, bathrooms, etc.  : )  Of course, I get more space because I'm a girl.  I have also had to explain to him that our printer just CAN'T go on the kitchen countertop - when he suggested it go there.  It doesn't belong.  Oh wow - we are going to have fun with this whole moving-in together thing!

Last night we went to this Sushi place nearby that I have driven/walked past probably a thousand times in the past 14 months.  It was so yummy - we both love sushi, but for some reason haven't had it together....EVER.  It was fun!  We walked to the restaurant - and MAN is it getting cold out .  Today was way nice (about 70 degrees!) but the evenings are so frigid.  I even busted out my winter jacket for the walk.  It was definitely a nice change to try a new place.  We will definitely go back.  

On another note - Halloween is in less than a week!! I love Halloween.  I get to dress up at work this year, which is exciting.  Thursday we're having a trick or treat for the kids and an employee costume contest which will be interesting after seeing pictures from last years festivities.  I realize its better to go all-out if you're going to bother dressing up at all.  I went to the Halloween Superstore today - it was SO busy in there, but I found the accessories to go with my Minnie Mouse outfit I put together.  I figure with drawn on whiskers it will be cute, but total for the whole outfit, it didn't cost me too much cash this year.  I'm excited to dress up for sure!

I didn't post any pictures this time around - but check out that website to see the apartment!  I will be sure to take photos of all Halloween festivities happening this week to post them.

IT'S BEEN A WHILE.....

It has been a LONG time since I have posted anything.  Will has been pretty focused on his own blog (willbrawn.blogspot.com) and has kindly left this one up to me.  LOTS has been going on since this summer - and our wedding is quickly approaching!  I believe the count is down to 59 days ... but who's really counting?  We had tons of fun over the summer!  Will and I went to Waterworld for my birthday - Fourth of July was celebrated by jetskiing and a BBQ with his family - We spent a week in Washington in August (well I spent a week and Will spent four days).  While in visiting home Will took advantage of no tax in Oregon and we bought the nifty Canon camera he had been pining after for awhile.  Ever since then he has been shooting pictures non-stop - doing portraits, landscape and actually pretty much anything he finds neat.

I on the other hand have landed an awesome job at Noble Energy - and oil and gas company in downtown Denver (in the World Trade Center).  I work as an assistant/office coordinator.  I now get vacation days and holidays which is a totally new thing for me!  My job is very demanding and busy - but it sure makes my days (and weeks!) fly by.  I can't even begin to say where this summer went, because it was gone before it even started - but Fall has been here for awhile now and so far it is my favorite season here in Denver!  Another perk about my job is that we were able to enjoy BOX SEATS to the BRONCOS game a couple weeks ago.  That was so fun! 

Will and I have gotten out to enjoy the mountains a few times this season and the aspen trees are so beautiful!  I have never seen such yellows and oranges on trees as I have here.  I love it!  This is my second fall season in Colorado - and I definitely was looking forward to it. 

Our wedding plans are going well - I can't believe we're down to 8 weeks.  I am excited I get to go back home in 7.  It is really amazing how fast time is going.  We are now apartment hunting - and it is NOT fun, at all.  It is very frustrating actually.  We've been "ward shopping" and it seems like the ward we want to live in doesn't have the kind of apartments we like - and on the other hand the area we LOVE has the smallest ward we've ever been to.  There's lots of other things to consider too: like pets, utilities, parking, free wi-fi.  We want a cat bad - but the nice apartment don't allow them, of course.  Decisions, decisions.  We've decided we'll just know when its the right place - because it will feel like home.

My goal is to blog more often - so family and friends can "keep tabs" on what we've been upto.  So Enjoy!  : )