great minds think alike

Keep an eye out for this guy this weekend...


After a busy week, Bran and I are enjoying a relaxing night at home tonight. We both had the same idea and stopped to get dinner and dessert on our way home from work, so we ended up eating his dinner, freezing mine and indulging in an array of desserts!

Koda will be staying at an overnight kennel this weekend, where he'll get to run around all day, playing on a dog mountain and swimming in the pool. There's a web cam on the website, so tune in this weekend and check out Koda TV.

Luckily we have an early afternoon flight tomorrow, so we're heading to Fort Collins late morning to meet up with all our friends then we'll leave from the smaller Fort Collins airport.

Go Koda-- it's your birthday. To celebrate, Koda took his first trip to the groomer where he got the full doggie spa treatment and came home with the world's biggest bone. Who says dogs don't smile?



Brandon and I are gearing up for our trip to Las Vegas this weekend. We were talking last weekend and realized that we've taken only around 3-4 vacations together over the past 6 years. We determined that we need to go on more trips, for sure. Looking forward to going back to Las Vegas-- it's been around 8 years, I believe, since my friends and I visited. I've been working out over the past month on a consistent basis and am thrilled that I've actually dropped a few pounds. Viva Las Vegas!

Brandon and I went downtown to the La Piazza dell’Arte chalk art festival today. There were so many amazing chalk drawings. It wa super hot here today, so I definitely felt for the artists as I know what it feels like when you spend 8 hours in the sun.

We walked into a nearby restaurant after, and I realize it's a place Becki told me about months ago. She said I'd really like it, and she was right on! My only wish is that we were a big group and could have reserved the Pope table.




The sherbet ice cream scoop on the right-hand side of our dessert most definitely matched the green and pink decor. Didn't really notice this until I downloaded these pictures, however.

Three-day weekends are the best. My friend Cara was visiting from Fort Collins yesterday. We started out the day by visiting the BodyWorlds 2 exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It was intense, but fascinating nonetheless. When we got home, we decided to take our dogs for a walk through downtown Denver with the intention of cruising by the Real World loft. If you haven't heard, they JUST started filming this past week in Denver, about 14 blocks away from our place. We stopped for water and ended up deciding to head back home for dinner, just a few blocks short of the loft. It's probably for the best, since Koda was experiencing a bad hair day anyway.

When we got home, we ran across the street and got a few bottles of wine to go with our pasta dinner. We recently got "on demand" cable, which we are very thrilled about, so we took advantage of this by renting Steel Magnolias. For free. Of course it was the ultimate chick flick, but was a perfect way to end the evening. Cara's husband Justin got here around midnight last night after a concert in town with friends, so they crashed on our living room floor. We all slept in and we made marvelous breakfast burritos this morning and chatted over coffee and breakfast. Three cheers for homemade breakfast burritos.

They left for home around noon, and I spent the remainder of the day exercising my right to do nothing and loving it. Koda and I went for a run around 7 tonight, where we met 5 people. Yes, something about having dogs and babies makes strangers want to talk, right? People are very nice, but love to offer advice, such as "I think he's got to be part Saint Bernard" and "You should go to the dog park on 29th and Franklin" and "I am a stranger, but here- have some of my raspberry sparkling water then I'll drink from the same bottle after you- a dog- are done with it." Okay, so it's not all advice, per se, but people love to talk so the big city is slowly breaking me out of my shell. The best was the woman tonight who asked me if Koda gets along with politicians. Umm, excuse me, I said- did you just ask me if he likes politicians? "Yes, I was just wondering if your dog gets along with politicians," she asked. I told her that he hasn't really met any thus far, then realized that we really needed to be on our way because the dog was getting restless and doesn't typically like to bring politics into personal conversations. Ahem.

It's interesting, because you see a lot of city/apartment dogs here- beagle size and smaller. Chihuahas, shihtzus, pugs run rampant, so Koda is quite the anomaly.