Early Birthday Boy Celebration

With our busy schedule this upcoming week, we celebrated the birthday boy Saturday night.  During the day, we enjoyed a walk around Davidson Mesa on a beautiful, sunny fall day and then hit the rec center to do some weights. We headed to Boulder (after Marshall got three vaccines) and walked around Pearl Street a bit before heading to The Kitchen for dinner. The Kitchen has shared plates and we were able to try out a few different dishes which we both enjoy. 

After dinner, we walked down the north end of Pearl Street before heading to the St. Julian to listen to some live music in the lobby.  The Wrights then joined us and we walked over to the Hotel Boulderado to go to License No. 1 - the speakeasy style cocktail bar in the basement of the hotel. It was a great vibe, fun music and we were happy to be able to grab a table for the evening. Marshall even ran into a fraternity brother (who was there celebrating his son just getting engaged!). 

A wonderful night celebrating Robert Marshall Peavy - the amazing human I am fortunate enough to call my husband and best friend. 

enjoying music at the St. Julien

the celebration crew

Halloween 2026 Version

Halloween was low key here in Colorado. We made chili, we watched football and we handed out candy to quite a few trick or treaters. Surprisingly, we had to turn off our light as we ran out of candy! 

We had hoped to be dressed as "happy football fans," but neither Marshall nor I came across victorious. The boys, on the other hand, had much more eventful and fun Halloweens. Tanner also celebrated homecoming in Iowa City. A few pics of the weekend. 

wet morning tailgating in his new overalls

finally hung the flag

fall walk

sad Coug fan

smoky cocktails for Halloween

Sad/mad/disappointed Husker fan

Mario cart characters 

Drake and his roommates

another spot on our pub pass 

the flowers are still blooming

Fall Ultimate

It's a bummer that we aren't easily able to watch Tanner play Ultimate Frisbee, but we are able to keep up with some of the activities via social media. Here are a couple pics. 

Fall in Louisville

It has certainly not FELT like fall here in Louisville for most of September and October, but it is starting to LOOK like fall. It was almost 80 yesterday and I worked for a few hours on the back porch and enjoyed watching the leaves rain down while working.  

Last night, we did embrace the warm weather and met friends we hadn't seen for a long time down at Crystal Springs Brewing for beers in the sun and dinner downtown. Fall, friends and fun. 🍁

trying to up my game a bit for the front door 

flowers from my neighbor 

ready for mahjong 

Monday Mahjong! 

new pillows 

my flowers are still blooming 

flowers amongst the leaves 

And per typical October, watching CU and Nebraska lose

Memory Lane Weekend

Catching up with friends from my early Denver days happened two times this past weekend. On Friday night, we had sushi in the Highlands with Nadja, the Ayers and the Smileys (with Alex!). Nadja, Traci and Rachel all worked together at an ad agency after Nadja graduated from DU. We spent many a night at Governor's Park and many other establishments as we navigated the adult world. Pretty amazing that we are all still in Colorado and are able to get together from time to time. 

On Sunday, Marshall and I met Valerie, her husband Ben and her son Charlie, along with Nadja for a hike, happy hour beers at the A Lodge and dinner at Postino in Boulder. Valerie, Nadja and I met each other in the DU apartments in 1995. It was great catching up on all things about life and reminiscing about our early years. 

so many laughs 

on a view point on what I call our "guest hike" (a nice hike that is close and has amazing views of the continental divide without TOO much elevation) 

what a view

  

Fall in Colorado

We finally got out of the 80s and received some much needed rain this past week. It was wonderful to have some cooler days and feel that fall is actually here. On Thursday night, we bundled up for Mohi Senior night for the soccer team. Today, we walked around St. Vrain State Park and grabbed a beer on our Pub Pass at a brewery in Longmont. I commented that today is a pretty stereotypical Colorado day (hiking and going to a brewery) - but how fortunate we are to be able to take in these activities right in our backyard. 

heron by the lake

Exploring Collision Brewery in Longmont - a great day for a beer on the patio with a view of the mountains

snow on the mountains

One More Day

Marshall and I decided to stay Sunday night so we could have a bit more time with Tanner. After checking out of our sleezy hotel, we attended Tanner's Ultimate Frisbee practice with Drake. We got the minivan cleaned out while Tanner showered and we walked downtown to grab some lunch. We got Drake to the Greyhound bus around 2:30 and checked into the hotel and Tanner attended his engineering fraternity event and got some studying done while we relaxed at the hotel. We were able to grab a later sushi/ramen dinner with Tanner on Sunday which not have been possible if we had left on Sunday. 

Monday brought working from the hotel (me)/Tanner's room (Marshall) and class for Tanner.  We were able to meet for froyo before I had to head to the airport and Marshall and Tanner got in a game of darts before Marshall left for his flight (two different flights for us). 

We are so fortunate to be able to work remotely to be able to spend time with our kids. A definite perk of our companies. 

ready for practice

playing catch

the team

my 💗

sunset over Iowa City

trying a new spot

my work spot in the afternoon (free wifi and no people!) 

Working from Tanner's room

froyo break 

seen at DIA, but glad to be home