Lost Wages

After a week absence, its time to update. Last week we were lucky enough to take a trip home (aka Lost Wages) to witness the marriage of 2 of our good friends (to each other!). We took a week off so we could try to make it a vacation instead of a whirlwind trip for a holiday where we drive back and forth across town a million times to visit family. It was nice to go home when we could enjoy the slower pace, we even had a day where we didn't do anything. The wedding was absolutely wonderful and Tisheena looked amazing. Its so cool to have 2 more people we went to high school with end up together, that doesn't happen very often unless you were in our graduation class it seems. Anyways, these are the things I was so happy to have in the last 2 weeks:

• Hydrocortisone cream - Enough said.
• Friends that are neighbors - It is so exciting to have people we love so much live so close to us. I have to remember not to take that for granted. Its great to have people so close that I trust so much to take care of our kitty family when we are gone. They do such a wonderful job that I never worry about them. Its also so cool to be able to walk across the street to go hang out with them, eat Gene's delicious pizza, and help break in their new chairs. Seriously, I'm so lucky to have them.
• Hotels - Please don't misunderstand me, I LOVE our families. They are great and we like staying with them when we visit. Now that we are older though, we can afford to get a hotel for our trips home. It is great for our relationship and it helps us feel like we aren't favoring one family or another. Plus, it makes it feel like its really a vacation.
• Yardhouse - So awesome! We ate there like 4 times when we were home. They have 110 beers and they are all on tap. Some of them you can't get anywhere else on tap. And they have great food, their tuna poke stack is awesome! And they have sports on like every TV and they will play what you want them to. So needless to say, there were a few occasions where we enjoyed good food, good beer and baseball.
• Love - There are so many different kinds of love and love between every couple is different. Not all of them are the storybook, head over heels love, but that doesn't make it any less special. Spending an evening with all the couples from high school, it was very interesting to see how different everyone was and how they all loved differently. It was really kind of cool. Love is an amazing thing and those of us who are lucky to have found it already, we need to remember to not take it for granted. Its so easy to get lost in the day to day drama that we don't take the time to enjoy the love in our lives.

I'm looking forward to enjoying this weekend. I only have a short run this Saturday and next Sunday is my race. It has totally snuck up on me this time. I hope you all have a great weekend wherever you are!

April Showers

There is not much happening in my life this past week which is something I generally enjoy. No news is good news, my grandma always said. This week has been rather calm, I got 2 days to myself and did nothing but read one of those days because it was cold and dreary. That was the most perfect day off...We are about to embark on our first "vacation" to our lovely home city, Las vegas, for Danny and Tisheena's wedding on the 16th. I am really excited about having a week to just relax and enjoy the time we have there without any obligations other than the wedding. Its going to be a great trip and the weather is going to be lovely too. Yay for vacations! On to the things I'm happy for this week...

• Les Miserables - I LOVE musicals! I'm not picky, I just love singing about things. My favorite episode of Buffy is the musical episode (and that was before it was the cool thing), I love Grease, Glee, etc. You get the idea, I love musicals. My absolute favorite is Les Miserables. It is the most beautiful story of love and redemption that spans generations. I've been lucky enough to attend a performance of the Broadway cast a few years ago and I also was able to see it at the Queen's Theatre in London on our honeymoon. The movie with Liam Neeson, Geoffery Rush and Claire Danes is wonderful is well (especially if you don't like musicals). It has been 25 years since it premiered on the West End in London and PBS held a special concert celebrating this and that was what reignited the fire in my heart for this musicals. You must see it, you must.
• Little Bird Bakeshop - http://thelittlebirdbakeshop.com/ This is my new obsession. It is where I have my second breakfast after I run a bazillion miles on Saturdays. It is the adorable little bakery in Old Town and everything is fresh and made with local ingredients. The owner is an amazing younger woman who has been a pastry chef for some great restaurants and decided to open a bakery after her mom died. They have to most anal baristas and the make the most wonderful coffee. The caramel latte is my fav and its partially because of the house-made caramel sauce....amazing. Yummy cinnamon rolls, yummy biscuits, scones, everything is wonderful. My fav is her apple pie with crumb topping, its the only apple pie that tastes ALMOST as good as mine.
• Yoga - I was skeptical about yoga when Christina asked me to join her and I hated more than one of the classes, I won't lie. But when we found Allie, I was in love. Yoga is hard and it sucked if you don't have to right instructor but we found one at the Fort Collins Club. She is exactly what I need at the end of a work day. Yoga has been an amazing thing for me, it makes my head AND body feel great. Its so nice to be able to decompress from a day at work with yoga and spend 75 minutes in my own head. Plus, you get yoga butt, its awesome!

I was hoping to have 5 this week but I feel so strongly about the 3 I've listed that I think its good for this week.

Off to Vegas on Sunday!