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Happy Game Day everyone! I can't say how happy I am that college football and cool weather are here! We woke up this morning actually cold! It was about 60 degrees around 10am. Praise Jesus. I knew we moved to Colorado for a reason ;) In honor of the most wonderful time of the year, I made a few gameday goodies yesterday. First up is my mom's 7 layer dip. I'm sure y'all all have versions of this dip as well, but this is what we use in my family. Our ingredients   First layer, Frito Bean Dip Then a layer of sour cream mixed with taco seasoning Guacamole Then a mix of cheese, green onions and tomatoes Next up I made some chocolate covered pretzels with orange, purple and red sprinkles. I melted white chocolate chips over a "double boiler" btw - you have to do this on low or else you burn your chocolate, good thing I bought 2 bags!  Dipped my pretzels in Finally, ...

 "new" dresser that is providing much more counter and storage space in our kitchen "new" table that will definitely be getting a makeover "new" (clearly not so new) TV so we can watch college football If you have any ideas or links for the dresser or table makeover, send 'em my way!!

Alright, those of my college friends might remember a pair of pink and brown boots that I love! I tried to find a picture of me in them, but I think they are all on my external hard drive. Anyway. Unfortunately, the very bottom of the heel sole fell off one of them at least 2 or 3 years ago. In fact, I can't even remember the last time I wore them! I've been diligently moving them around with me since, surprisingly keeping track of said fallen-off-sole-piece. Well, my friends, today is the day I finally fixed them! Last Sunday I wanted to wear them to church and remembered I had some double sided sticky wall tape in a drawer. It worked! but only for about 3 hours. Here are the remnants of that sad afternoon, Someone suggested that I just nail the sole back in. The combination of new jeans that are a bit long and not wanting to wear wedges gave me just the motivation to get out my hardware and give it a try! It was pretty simple. The fallen off sole was pretty rubbery,...

Now that we've had some time to settle in, we've begun to discover some of our favorite spots as well as get excited for new ones. Here is a list of things we're really excited about for our new life in Denver. First of all, sports. One of the big draws to Denver for Aaron was the professional and college sports that are in abudance here. We're especially looking forward to the Rockies vs. Giants games in September, heading up to Boulder for some CU Football and walking over to DU for their lacrosse and ice hockey games. We're also pretty pumped about going out to the new Lutheran High School on Friday nights to watch their football games! I'm trying to convince Aaron to start coaching so we can live out Friday Night Lights .   We've also been introduced to a few great areas thanks to some friends we've made so far! We heard a lot about Washington Park before we moved here, so we've been up a few times to walk around at dusk. Its seriously gor...

A few weeks ago, Aaron and I headed down to the new Ikea that just opened in Centennial. It had been open for about 9 or 10 days by that point. Aaron had never been to an Ikea before and I tried to let him know that it wasn't just a furniture store. 3 hours later, I think he got it! Also, because this one had just opened, there were swarms of people! I'm not kidding, I felt like I was going to a concert! Here are a few pics of things we (or I) liked! lots of event staff were needed - clearly they were working hard loved, loved, loved this dining table and chairs! I have a thing for white couches Aaron loved this floating bookshelf another white couch I'm contemplating this as the color scheme for the living room really liked these lights under the shelves as well as the bar to hang things along the backsplash grey floral curtains - i will be buying these soon! the bed I picked out the bed Aaron pic...