We spent the weekend back in Beaver Creek celebrating our 6 year wedding anniversary on St. Patrick's day. We skied by the chapel we got married in! We feel so blessed to have found each other.  We hope the the luck of the Irish will expand our family soon.  

We attended a marriage seminar in February that was hosted by our Church.  We are committed to growing closer to one another every year and creating a loving and vibrant family life where we learn how to love one another well.  If we are blessed to become parents we want to teach our child to love well by creating a happy and fun family life.  

We spent the week in Telluride for Katy's birthday. Telluride is our favorite mountain town.  We try to spend a week here every year.  We love it in the summer and the winter.  The weather this year was incredible.  We got in some great skiing.  We can't wait until we can bring a little one with us to experience all this town has to offer.  

We went to Beaver Creek to kick off our first ski weekend if 2024!  We bumped into some friends and got to spend most of the day skiing with them.  Their kids were in ski school and we got to see them on the mountain.  We can't wait for the day when we get to teach a little one how to ski or snowboard down the slopes.  

We had a wonderful Christmas celebrating with our family and friends.  We kept up our Christmas Eve tradition of making a wonderful smoked duck.  We both agreed, this years duck was the best we've ever made!  We can't wait to introduce a little one to this great and delicious tradition.  

We kicked off the Holiday season by getting dressed up and going to see the play, A Christmas Carol, at the Denver Performing Arts Center.  The show was absolutely amazing and definitely got us in the Christmas spirit.  We look forward to the day we can share these experiences with a little one.  

We have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.  Every year, Jason's family rents some cabins in the woods in Kentucy so that the whole family can be together for the holiday.  We made some delicious meals, sat around the campfire singing songs and telling stories and we went for some great hikes in the woods!  We can't wait for the day we get to bring a new baby into the family so that they can be part of this great tradition.  

We went to Texas this week to have an early/extra family gathering to kick off the holiday season.  Jason's oldest brother just moved to Texas so we went to see their new home and hang out with the kiddos. We took this picture at their church.  They already had some their Christmas decorations set up!

Jason's parents came to visit us for a week!  We had a blast leaf peeping in the mountains, playing golf, making family dinners and taking the pups for walks around the park by our house. We love spending time with them. 

We absolutely love the fall! Watching the leaves change, feeling the cool air in the morning and decorating our home to celebrate the season!  Bring on everything pumpkin, we are ready for it!  

We got to go visit Katy's family in Texas for her mom's cousins 90th birthday party!!   We had a great time reconnecting with Katy's moms side of the family.  We got to see some cousins that we hadn't seen in years and spent some quality time sharing stories and memories of Katy's mom.    

Jason's brother also lives in Texas and we got to spend a couple of days with his side of the family.  We love seeing our family as ofther as possible even though we don't like in the same state.   

Katy ran in the Flaming Foliage Relay this year.  It's a 24 hour run, with a team of 10 people that starts in Idaho Springs Colorado and finishes in Beuna Vista Colorado.  It's 165 miles total!!  Katy ran with a team of 10 people.  Every person had three legs to run.  The race started early, at 5:30 am, we had to leave Denver at 4:00 in the morning.  Our team was in two different cars, 5 people in each car. 

Katy's last leg of the run was at 3:00 AM around Tourquise lake up near Leadville CO. (We took this picture right before Katy started running, it's SO dark outside! Katy had to wear a headlamp and reflective gear.)  Thankfully, Jason was there to cheer Katy on in the dark, he also drove the car and followed Katy closley as she ran becuase she was afraid of the animals that might be out late at night in the woods. 

After the run, we stayed with all of our friends who participated in the race, at a house in Leadville, CO.  All of our friends brought their families and their kids.  We had a full house full of babies and teenagers.  Katy made lasagna AND chicken pot pie for the whole group!  Our friends brough salad, green beans and brownies. 

We look forward to the day when we have a new member of our family to bring with us on these adventures. 

https://runsignup.com/Race/Photos/Location/FFR2023/CO/IdahoSprings/FlamingFoliageRelayIdahoSpringstoBuenaVista

Go Rockies!   We took Katy's nephew and his best friend to a Rockies game.  We were able to get front row seats right behind the players dougout!  Katy's nephew and his friend both got to talk to some of the players and they both came home with official Rockies baseballs from the game!  The Rockies had a winning game..14 to 1 against the White Sox.    
#coloradorockies 

We love to travel!  This year, we planned a tirp for Jason's birthday to Portugal.  What an amazing country it is.  We spent four days playing golf right by the ocean, we spent some time at thier amazing beaches, we also got to spend time in Porto, Lisbon and Obidos (a very old city with a castle surrounded by a large wall).  The food was amazing, the people were fantastic.  All of the cities in Portugal are safe and clean. 

While we were in Lisbon,we discovered that it was Catholic world youth week in the city.  The streets were crowded lots of young Catholics from all around the world, they came there to see the Pope!  He passed by the area where we were staying, alothough we didn't get to see him because of all the crowds of people.   

Some of our good friends also happeded to be traveling through Lisbon with their kids while we were there.  We were able to meet up with them for dinner.  We would LOVE to be able to travel with our kids one day and introduce them to all of the beautuful cities around the world.  

Every July we participate in a golf tournament with Katy's family to raise money for Katys nephews school.  It's always a fun day for our family.  This year, the tournament got scheduled on a day that Jason was already planning to be out of town with his brothers so he didn't get to play with us.  Unfortunately Katy's nephew also came down with strep throat the day before the tournament so it was a bummer that we couldn't play golf with him this year.  Despite not having our full family there, we still had a great time!  We always love spending time with family.  We hope to teach a little one how to swig a club one day.  I'm sure they will become better than we are in no time.  

We had the opportunity to spend some time in Aspen this week for Katy's work.  We got to go to Kevin Costner's ranch (he wasn't there, so we didn't get to meet him.  The space was just rented for a concert event).   We spent time outdoors enjoying the fresh mountian air, listening to music and hanging out with some of our good friends.  We love getting up to the moutains whenever we can.  

We recently had the chance to support our friends by participating in Jodi's Race for Awareness at City Park.  This is a run/walk that raises money to support ovarian cancer research.  We had a great time at this event.  We got to spend time with our friends, we got some excercise and we helped raise money for a great cause.   

https://www.jodisrace.org/about-jodi-s-race

Katy's company has multiple relay teams compete in the Colfax Marathon relay every year to raise money for charity.  This year, Katy ran the fist 6.5 miles of the run, staring at 6:00 am.  It was an early morning but Jason was there to cheer Katy on thoughtout her portion of the race.  We were happy to have a beautiful spring day to run in Colorado!  

We had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!  We started out on Saturday by playing some golf at a beautiful course in Northern Colorado. 

We went to church on Sunday and then did some yard work, planting flowers and picking weeds.  We are so excited that the warm weather in Colorado finally seems to have arrived so that we can plant flowers and decorate our home.   We had a BBQ with some friends and thier kids Sunday evening.  We can't wait to have a little one to bring with us one day to play along with all of our friends kids. 

Monday, walked around some of the street festivals in Denver.  We are so thankful for the service of our vetrans.  We are hosting a charity dinner at our home next week to raise money for an organization that supports our vetrans.  

The Kentucky Derby is one of our favoirte events of the year.  We get to go back to Jason's home town in Louisville KY spend time with our family and watch the horses run.  The year, we went to the Oaks Day at Churchill Downs. Oaks day is the day before the Derby when they run the female horses.  Many of Jason's cousins, aunts and uncles all came with us so we got to spend some quality time with the family.  We had a great time getting dressed up and watching the races.  We also got to spend some quality time with our niece and nephews.  They are so sweet and we look forward to the day we can introduce them to a new cousin.  

Spring is in the air in Colorado and we could not have been more excited to welcome a perfect spring day to celebrate Easter.  We started the day by attending church followed by a lovely brunch with Katy's family.  We have large doors in our dining room that open up to our front porch.  We opened up both doors up to let the sunshine and the fresh air revive our home after such a cold winter.

Katy made a brunch spread that included eggs benedict with homemade holindase sauce and homemade english muffins (recipe link below), lemon roasted aspargus, garlic and herb roasted potatoes, lemon cured arugula salad with pine nuts and and finally, a mixed berry melody.  Katy's dad made his famous carrot cake for dessert.  It could not have been a more perfect day.  

We look forward to the day when we can have a little one in our home to make these kinds of happy days even more joyful.  

https://www.seriouseats.com/model-bakery-napa-english-muffin-recipe

#easter #brunch #englishmuffins 

GO ROCKIES!!  We love opening day because that means that summer is coming soon.  Warm weather, hot dogs, bike rides and baseball are just around the corner.  We were blessed to get tickets to the opening day game this year through Katy's work.  Although it was colder than we would have liked we had a great time at the game and best of all, the Rockies won!  

We love to see the little kids running around at the game, taking in the joy of baseball.  We hope one day that we can introduce our child to the joy of the game. 

While Jason and I are both Red Sox fans at heart, we hope that the Rockies have a winning season this year.

#rockies #redsox #baseballseason #openingday