Democrats Gone Wild!

Tonight Leo talked me into braving the downtown Democratic National Convention scene to be a part of the action...so before I knew it we were on our bikes heading downtown toward the political rioting masses! It was quite the scene with people making a scene for no absolute reason other than because they could. But sadly no Obama sightings (I was hoping for Charlize Theron...someone Leo knows saw her yesterday). Oh well, we will somehow find a way to still live fulfilled Obama free lives...someway...somehow;)

Enjoy a few pics of the riot lines:)

It's Showtime!

This weekend is Leo's first weekend on call so we have to stay close to make sure that all of the people in town for the Democratic National Convention (DNC if you are hip to the lingo) return safely to their homes with the same vision that they came here with;) Because of this we took advantage of one of the neighborhood activities that we had yet to experience...the outdoor summer movie series. Last night they were playing Cars with Lightning McQueen (or Bubble car if you are Reid). It was a lot of fun and because we biked back and forth we got to treat ourselves to some homemade peach pie with Colorado Palisade peaches when we got back home....it was a super yummy summer treat!

Leo and his "Ladies"

This weekend we went to Dillon with all of the other ophthalmology residents in Leo's class and their spouses to one of their families cabin's in Dillon, CO... and come to find out their definition of "cabin" is a huge 5 bedroom log home in the woods. I could get use to that! After a great dinner in Golden we headed to Dillon and stayed up late playing Mexican dominoes. Needless to say I was not a natural to the game. The next day we went on an awesome hike in chilly 30 degree weather and finished off our weekend with a meal of buffalo burgers at the Dillon Dam Brewery. Summer in Colorado is quite rough;)

Leo and his "ladies" (from left to right Emily, Lisa, Leo and Carolyn)


The view of Dillon reservoir from the hike....if you squint all of the beetle tree damage makes it look like fall colors;)

The Parents have landed!!

My parents visited our new home this weekend and we had a great time! We went to the sculpture festival in Loveland for my Dad to see about showing there next year, had a great birthday dinner for Mom... among many other great meals (including a Thai place where fat tire is 50 cents!!), went to Estes Park and Pearl street in Boulder, and all in all just had a great relaxing weekend. Thanks for the visit!!

Here are some pics of us cooking out in the front yard and my mom and her tequila-lime pie that I made her for her b-day... it is still margarita season after all;)

The sweet smell of compost in the mornin'

I do not know how many times we entered a garden center or home depot this weekend but it was aLoT!! We decided that before all of the plant selection was gone that we had better put our green thumbs on and overhaul our front flower beds.

This included...

#1 Piling up all of the current mulch on tarps

#2 Ripping out all of the weed stop material

#3 Ripping out all of the previous owners U-G-L-Y plants

#4 Fixing all of the soaker hoses in the garden

#5 Buying a cubic yard of oh so delicious compost... it had 3 types of manure in it fyi

#6 Tilling said compost into rock hard clay soil

#7 Planting all of our new plants

#8 Replacing all of the mulch

Needless to say we are beat but also very proud of our hard work. It was a bit hard though in the final hours when our neighbors were having a cold one on the porch while we were sweaty and extremely filthy.

My good looking yard man at work tilling part of the garden.

Watering the fruits of our labor. I am pretty excited about our first attempt at rose gardening. We bought 4 knock out rose plants and I hope that they live up to their reputation:)