Sweet Cow; Sweet Story

At the boys' school, there is a positive reward program called I-CARE. When you earn an award, your name is entered into a drawing and your name is included in the school-wide announcements. This week, T-man's name was drawn and he chose a gift card from Sweet Cow (the ice cream place in downtown Louisville). 

When he showed Marshall the gift card, he thought it was like a credit card and he could continually use it to buy ice cream. When Marshall told him it was only valid for one ice cream, he got sad. Later in the evening, he was able to tell me about the gift card. He said he wanted to take the entire family (we are pretty sure he thought he could pay for all of us). Just warmed my heart that he wanted to use his reward to buy ice cream for all of us. 

At breakfast, he had his card out and we talked more about it and his older brother was quick to point out that the card is only $5. After a quick glance at D-man, he backed off and started talking to T-man in a supportive manner. Regardless, we are proud of our little guy and can't wait for his reward trip to Sweet Cow. 

Weekend Wrap up

Why do the weekends go so quickly? We enjoyed football (D-man earned a starting position) and soccer victories for the boys, and victories for the Cougs and Nebraska. 

Sushi dinner as a family (followed by Sweet Cow) on Friday night, drinks and dinners at the neighbors on Saturday, and brunch in the Highlands with Nadja on Sunday wrapped up our social activities. A trip to the library for Reading Buddies for T-man made for a nice outing. 

A beautiful Colorado weekend with friends and family. 

D-man looking like the sushi chefs :) 

T-man playing goalie 

D-man on a kick off 

Sunday brunch in Denver 

View of downtown Denver from brunch 

Reading Buddies! 

Connections Conference

If there is one conference to go to while working at Return Path, it is ExactTarget Connections in Indianapolis. Return Path had a huge presence and I conducted a 4-hour training with a co-worker as well as met with several prospects and clients over the 3-day event. We even got to catch the closing speaker's- Condoleezza Rice- speech. 

Evening events included a "rep rally" that Return Path hosted for sales representatives from ExactTarget, a "cloud crawl" event at various locations in downtown Indianapolis (one of which was at the museum and included a DJ and corn hole out under the stars. Wednesday night took us to the home of the Indianapolis Colts to hear Imagine Dragons, the Avett Brothers, and a stellar DJ. It was a great party and a nice way to celebrate all of our hard work. 

Limo ride to the concert

On the actual turf of Lucas Oil Stadium 

 

Our booth 

 

Imagine Dragons 

Dr. Condoleezza Rice 

Our training attendees 

And none of this would be possible without an amazing husband taking care of things at home. Was so good to be home with all the PV men after the trip. 

Watching Football with a Friend

Spending the afternoon watching football with a friend. Good stuff. Go Broncos!! 

The Aftermath

The rain subsided today and we even had blue skies and sun peaking through. While we were fortunate to narrowly escape the flooding, others in the neighborhood and co-workers weren't so lucky. Louisville had 14 inches of rain in the last 48 hours - unbelievable - as this is our yearly rain total. 

All sporting events are canceled this weekend so we will be staying close to home and being thankful we only have a few leaves and sticks to clean up. 

Line of debris that shows how far the water came up onto the yard. 

Golf course still covered and Coal Creek still raging. 

Washed out portions on the golf course. 

Rain-meggedon

It rained more this afternoon and then more this evening. The creek was higher and more intense when we (and the rest of the neighborhood) ventured down around 5:00 today. We thought there is no way it would get close to our house. But, we were wrong. After dinner, I was in the living room and saw basically a river in the street in front of our house. Fortunately, there was no flooding for us, but others down into the neighborhood had 2-3 feet of water in their basements this afternoon. T-man was scared and it was comforting to see D-man really trying hard to make his brother feel better - "the river just had too much to drink and it doesn't have anywhere to go. 

We will have a other rain day tomorrow and more precipitation, but here's hoping a reprieve tonight helps. We've had almost our yearly rain total this week. And yes, we can here the water raging down the creek from our bedroom with the windows closed. 

We were standing in that parking lot in the pictures from this morning

The bridge completely submerged

The golf course - picture taken from the path behind the houses in our neighborhood. 

 

Car driving down St. Andrews Ln. 

Rain Day

This is the Peavy family's first "rain day." Lots of flooding led to the closing of all Boulder County schools. Last night, D-man said he hoped school would be canceled and I said there was no way that would happen. I obviously was wrong. It has been raining basically all week and more rain is expected through be weekend. Marshall said this is a 10-25 year flood. 

The attached pictures are of Coal Creek which runs through the golf course by our house. Crazy! 

Bike path under Dillon Road 

Creek over its bank and onto the golf course. 

Tanner working on his "dog house." 

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The Maiden Voyage

Nadja and I ventured off today for my first trip to Ikea. We both had our catalogs, our lists and were ready to tackle the big, bad world of Ikea.

We enjoyed lunch after touring the showroom, hit the showroom again and then loaded up our shopping carts.

We had a great time and as Nadja said - this was likely the most successful shopping trip we have taken together! We wrapped up the day with a trip through the Swedish Market for some traditional Swedish food - caviar in a tube - among other things. 

Marshall and the boys enjoyed the last day at the pool and a trip to the library for  T-man's reading buddies (thanks Marshall!). I was almost giddy showing Marshall all the stuff I purchased. It felt good to buy some things for our "new house" and freshen things up a bit. Here are a couple pics of some of the new items. 

New rugs for D-man. 

New lamps for the living room 

A fun little lamp for the entry way. 

Bleacher Butts

A busy weekend and it is only Saturday night! It was a beautiful evening for  movie night on Friday night at the school. 

Saturday morning brought soccer for T-man and football for D-man (both teams won!). A relaxing afternoon at the pool with several neighbors was followed by tailgating with the Pirate football team before the CU football game. And yes, I'm tracking the Huskers and am wearing a red necklace. 

Beaver Creek Oktoberfest

We spent a few hours in the afternoon at the Beaver Creek Oktoberfest. There was good food, good beer, German bands, and beautiful weather. Dave, Marshall, and I enjoyed a couple of beers while the kids played mini golf. I tried to use the event as a teaching moment for the boys, but they were most interested in avoiding standing around. Oh, well - at least the beer was good. 

Vail Jazz Festival

We enjoyed a Sunday morning gospel event at the Vail Jazz Fest. The boys enjoyed the beginning - "I'll fly away" was sung and both boys enjoyed singing along. Events like that remind me how much joy I derive music. And while the boys got bored, I think it is good to expose them to different events and music. 

And spending a morning in Vail is never a bad thing.