Merry Christmas!

I'm off to NC for the holidays, but not before going to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra tonight!

Merry, merry Christmas!

Snowshoeing!

Last Sunday Thomas and I headed up to Nederland to try out our new snowshoes. Thomas got us both some awesome snowshoes and poles last year, but we never had a chance to try them out so we picked a trail, which I ended up not being able to find, but we found another one around a lake and headed out.

It was gorgeous! Not too freezing, hiking through snow covered trees around a frozen lake. It was great! We even stumbled upon an awesome old cabin in the middle of the woods.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas....

1. Pandora Christmas playlist all day long - Check

2. White Christmas ( it finally snowed in Boulder!!) - Check

3. Giant warm cozy sweater - Check

4. Christmas decorations that my mom shipped to my office and I need to bring home - Check


5. Holiday parties (Mine was last night, Thomas' is tonight) - Check, Check

6. Holiday Movies (Christine rented Christmas Vacation the other night) - Check

7. Christmas activities (Going to see A Christmas Carol in Denver this weekend) - Check

8. Lots of presents wrapped under the tree! - Check

All in all I am so excited I could like scream. It finally feels like it's here with the snow. I don't even like snow, but when I saw it on my sky light this morning I immediately started singing have yourself a merry little christmas......

Happy Weekend!

Obsessed.... the Movie

This is a very, very belated movie review, but I just have to share a few thoughts on this. Christine and I watched Obsessed last night since normal TV shows are gone now :( and I have to say it was quite horrible. I love Beyonce, but this was bad.



The real thing that was interesting was how crazy stalkers are and how insane they can be because of their delusions. Ali Larter = very good crazy person in this movie.
So after I was already all worked up from crazy stalker and slightly freaked out. I then decided to watch Desperate Housewives from Sunday. It was about a riot. Well a night of watching crazy stalker + riot with crazy "normal" towns people seriously freaked me out. Like after watching all of this my heart was racing and my face was red and I was physically hot I was so worked up!

After this un fun night I am now adding riots and female stalker to my top 5 things I am scared of list. I mean male stalkers are scary, by female stalkers are CRAZY in the head.

Side note.... I googled "Obsessed" to find a picture of the movie and this is what came up first:



I CANNOT WAIT to see this!

'Tis the Season

I am so pumped about Christmas I can't even describe it.
While I was at home I took pics of our old Christmas card photos. These are my favorite ones. 




This weekend in Boulder there was the Parade of Lights downtown and I have to say in true Boulder form it was one of the strangest parades ever. It was basically like if you wanted to be in the parade you could no matter what. And it was really cold so everyone was completely bundled up and then had stuff for their theme on top of them.

Here are a few of my favs from the parade.

A man from the swing dance club.... as a dancing puppet. 
The local bus with lights.... no one was on it. Just the bus driver....
The "Order of Eptah" I have no idea who these people are, but I'm pretty sure they dress us as people from the Renaissance and fight each other. 
Every boy scout or girl scout group walked or had a float. These were my fav. Let it glow. They all had glow sticks and their floats were covered in glow sticks. So Boulder. 

Random man dressed as a dancing Christmas tree..
The Waste Management had a float complete with a decorated trash collector truck and a port-a-potty with Santa coming out of it! 

Little Kid Weekend

This past weekend was a lazy weekend in Boulder. Christine was out of town and Thomas' roomie was gone so he came to Boulder for the whole weekend and we apparently decided to veg out and unintentionally embrace childhood.

On Friday....
We ordered stuft crust pizza for dinner, ice cream for dessert and watched movies. I used to love this pizza! Not as much as my sis, but it still brought back so many memories.


On Saturday....
I wanted to play outside so we went to Target to get a football because I cannot catch a football so it is time I learn. So while getting a football Thomas ended up in the toy aisle. First, there were a ton of insanely cute kids like memorized by all the toys. So in the debate between a toy plane/helicopter or Nerf guns we went with the toy plane. Once opening this piece of junk we returned it for Nerf guns.

This is where the true childhood calling began.

This is what we got.

It includes 2 vests, 2 guns, and 2 protective eye wear kits. Thomas literally was opening it in the car as soon as we left.
I will say yes we are dorks, but this was seriously awesome!

All set up in my gear....


Right after Thomas shot me in the lip with a dart.....


Once we were set, we named bases, safety zones and rules. Then the war began. And let me tell you it was intense. I mean sliding on my knees to reach a bookcase for cover, dodging darts, hiding and reloading. IT WAS GREAT! We did this for about an hour and then did shooting practice.

All of this totally added to my dream of being a CIA agent.

The weekend concluded with going to see Harry Potter!!!!!
It was insanely good, so good. I can't even tell you. That also added to my dream of having magical powers.


All in all. It was a great weekend!

Loft

Ann Taylor Loft has now become one of my favorite stores. They have so much good stuff right now and huge sales all the time. I think it's like a normal priced version on J.Crew since J.Crew apparently thinks they are up there with Dior and Channel now.

Today I was making my Christmas list and here are a few of my loves.
And all coats are only $75 for the next three days and your entire purchase is 30% off until Sunday. I'm a total sucker for sales.



This girl does not do this dress justice. I saw it in the store and it is SO pretty.




Obsessed with this detachable fur collar...