celebrating the fourth.

we were in colorado for the 4th of july, so unfortunately due to all the wild fires there were no fire works allowed. we were all a little bummed out, but still had a lot of fun at the downtown parade. and afterwards enjoyed a family bbq, and i made mini homemade strawberry shortcakes. a 4th of july tradition in our family! and we also had red, white, and blue snow cones!

(and yes, chirs insisted on wearing overalls.)

life lately

...in colorado

i am doing a little back tracking because i realized that i complelely forgot to blog about our trip to Colorado and thankfully my father-in-law had a camera that i could use while we were there or i probably would have died. (taking photographs is a huge passion of mine and something that i do everyday, and since i no longer have a digital camera, i have been going old school lately and having a blast using my film camera!) but, not to overwelm you with tons of posts photographs (because i am so behind, i blame it on the beautiful weather!) i will try and break down the trip into bite size pieces.

the weather was amazing. and being surrounded by God's creation, simply beautiful. the mountain air. the mountain VIEW, while drinking coffee in the living room. pure bliss to my soul. and just the refreshment it always needs. everytime we visit christopher's parents, i always ask, "why don't we live here?" seriously. i am already imagining the little bird's first christmas in the snow. hee hee.

on this particular day, we biked to the farmer's market, and as i tied my skirt in a knot to make 'shorts', chris just smiled at me. i guess he is use to my crazy ways.

the coolest thing we saw, was that bike they converted to make smoothies! chris graciously pedaled away to satisfy my craving for a banana, carrot, strawberry smoothie with flaxseed. yum!

love,

meg

today christopher opened his email
and there was a plane ticket for me
to Durango, Co!

I get to see Paige!

my flight isn't for another 2 weeks, but, i am still so excited and so thankful to be able to go and be with her during this difficult time.

oh, and i have so many ideas brewing to make the most of it!

thank you poppi!

right in tune

Made it to Colorado! I couldn't help but jump up and down with sheer excitement once we landed in Denver, even though we were only there long enough to catch our connecting flight to Durango, it just feels so absolutely wonderful to be out of Texas and the heat! I even did a little happy dance and sang  ' we're out of Texas!' over and over.

Right before heading out here, well for the last 5 days, the air conditioning in our apartment went out and the only way we were surviving it was by having silly ice fights in bed!

But, seriously the weather is perfect here! Absolutely beautiful, and we might even try to sneak off to Telluride on monday for a little adventure!

So here is to family time - dinner, coffee, rhubarb pie, boy meets world, tie dying shirts, and frantically packing and getting ready for India!

We leave for India on Wednesday morning!!

P.s thanks boomer & ellie for taking us to the airport! and jenn & pat for taking care of my little furry babies!