December 2007

Hey, it's the month of my title! The 28th day of the month, but still.


So, earlier in the month, Sean's company hosted an 80's-themed screening of one of the cheesiest movies of all time: Aspen Extreme. We had to dig in the big bag of ski-clothes goodies. I believe we came up with some gems (yes, that is a side ponytail I'm sporting. I should have made it much higher - it just doesn't translate):



As did many others:


And we made time to find ourselves a not-quite-Charlie-Brown-but-damn-close Christmas tree. We will call him George:





A happy 2008 to all! May all our wildest dreams come true...

November 2007

Hah! I have now procrastinated long enough that I am behind again, and can therefore stick with my cop-out post title, the oh-so-creative "November 2007." Whew.

No house stuff in November, though we did get to do some really fun non-house things. Like take a trip to Mexico to visit Buzz and Mary at their new house, where we were spoiled rotten with lots of beach and palapa bar time and Ramiro's margaritas, along with some great days of fishing.

Why, yes, that is a 75-pound monster tuna that Sean caught (and we brought home)!


Of course, he caught it with a little (a lot of!) help from Buzz and Mary, so everyone got to pose with it back on the dock:

What a great fight that was! So, not to be outdone, I got to catch my very first sailfish - so, so, so exciting! That is wonderful Marco posing as well, who not only baited every line for us, and helped us bring every fish into the boat (check out his "chain mail" gloves - quite the teeth on this one!), but fileted the ones we kept, and put them on ice, ready to be frozen and taken back to Colorado. Thank you, Marco!

We also had many wonderful dinners with Buzz and Mary, and with their Baja friends (yes, those are the whitest legs you've ever seen - it was November and we live in Colorado!):

We also had John and his roommate Dan out for Thanksgiving, which we were lucky enough to celebrate with all the family at "the big house."

And what would Thanksgiving be without a little Guitar Hero? No holiday at all, that's what I say.

John and Dan also stayed at Cody and Annica's brand-new Rico house, and took these pictures:

November 21st:

November 23rd:

So, with that FOOT of snow that fell overnight and into the next day, we were able to get in a little cross-country skiing (the ski mountain wasn't open yet - bummer for the boys):