Well, it is 2015!

Happy New Year, or two months into it... whoops!  I'll just be your friendly irregular blogger :) 

Events from summer 2014-now include:

Innovage Moonlight Classic Bike Ride in July

Attended my first polo match with Matt, Jeffrey, Kay, and Jill!

Bacon party small-scale with Kaela and McCabe

Bridesmaid in Katie and Phil's wedding

Riding the Belgians in Grand Lake

Met up with Kaela in NH at a snowmobile festival for my birthday! 

Christmas in Vermont with Kevin's nephews and neighbor

Met Kevin's only neice!  Miss Anna is a clunker!

Skied my first double black EX trail at Copper! 

Tuckered out by Tucker Mountain

Stock Show Reunion with Taylor and Katie

One awesome sign

Free Coca Cola day with Taylor at Winter Park 

Riding in Fort Collins, it was a blast! (and really cold- I am wearing 5 shirts/jackets)

Snow in Boston... and those weren't even the highest drifts! 

My "nephew" puppy Wes who belongs to Andrew and Julie

Kevin rocking his Russian hat

Myself, Jenelle, and Jessie ready for a cold snowmobile adventure 

Kevin and I on a frozen pond pretty close to Canada

Snowy Trees

I love fluffy snow on trees!

Last one, I promise! 

The cabin

The Owl's Nest in Pittsburg, NH

I'll try to post again sooner than later!

Long Time No Post... Oops!

Sorry for not posting in awhile!  I have been having way too much fun with a busy schedule- both at work and social life!

In April, Kevin and I went to Puerto Rico with friends Ben and Kelly and Kelly's parents.  We spent one night in Old San Juan and the rest of the trip on the island Culebra and stayed on Flamenco Beach.  It was a great trip with a lot of snorkeling, hiking, and good old relaxing!  Somehow I even made it through without getting a sunburn!

I was pretty excited to go on the trip!

Landing in San Juan!

The view from our hotel in Old San Juan

Kevin, Kelly, Ben and I at one of the forts 

The view from Villa Flamenco Beach where we stayed

The snorkel tree

All of Culebra had beautiful beaches

We took a boat ride with the owner of the villa to Culebrita where the girls hiked to an old light house while the boys went fishing

Earning their keep... The boys caught dinner!

Checking out some of the old war equipment... Culebra was a target practice and had all kinds of cool old things!

The ferry ride from the main island to Culebra was a thrill in itself, there are some good sized waves!

I have made a few trips up to Grand Lake already this summer to see friends, snack on the exclusive fried zucchini and carmel apples, and of course no trip is complete without horses!

Kay and I by the lake!

The water is running rather fast at Adam's Falls

Kay took Moses out for a ride to Lookout

Zeuss is not so into the picture posing

When I'm not at work, I try to get out and have some fun, despite having two left feet, we had a blast dancing and kicking up dust at a number of country concerts this summer!

McCabe and I at Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and Grill for the Tyler Farr concert

The Girls at Country Jam- Jordan, Kaela, Jill, Brittany and me

Our camping group at Country Jam, with a few extra photo-bombers

 Wedding season has hit in full force, with six friends getting married, Kevin and I are doing our best to make it out to celebrate!

Jon and Becky got married in Plymouth, MA

Good times with good friends!  Buddy, Maggie, Jon and Becky at one great wedding!

Yes, we saw Plymouth Rock, but it isn't as photogenic as the Mayflower! 

 Work has been great, I am mainly on post surgical still, but have had a number of "floats" to the Suites and post-partum.  I am blessed with fun coworkers and for the most part some awesome patients.

Krystal and I cashed in on free Cinnabon for nurses week

Krystal is my work twin... We were hired at the same time, are about the same height (or lack of), and are constantly being mixed up by coworkers and patients!  Our boss calls us the floor's minions as we are two of the three "newbies" and being the youngest on the floor we are pretty flexible for scheduling!

Our nursing students gave us a nerf gun to shoot the pulse oximetry alarm with... On slower nights we get some "target practice" in!

 Rose and all of the HealthOne hospitals participated in the AHA Heart Walk downtown, it was a great success!

RMC Team

Nurses Night at the Rockies for some of 6c

And of course to keep me happy and sane, I ride Lucian a couple times a week!

 Hope everyone's summer is going well!  Let me know if you're passing through Denver :)

Happy 2014!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year's celebration!  Since my last post, I've kept busy with work, riding, weekly friend dinners, and just hanging out!  This year I celebrated Christmas in Colorado and in Boston. 2014 is off to a good start and hopefully will be a great year for everyone!

Kevin got me a season's pass to WP for Christmas!

We met Robert Ayers and Chris Clark from the Broncos while celebrating Booney's birthday!

Mavis and I spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning at work.

Gingerbread barn... Harder than they look to keep them standing!

It didn't last long, Christmas night with Brittany and Kelvin 

I spent the 26-1st in Vermont/ the North East... we found a water park!

Happy New Year from Plymouth, Mass!

Good Times as a Grown-up!

Big surprise, November somehow snuck up on me and I'm behind on updating this blog- per usual!

I'm officially one of those crazy night-shift nurses!  I have loved working at Rose so far, and despite the occasional lack of sleep to function like a normal person, nights are not too bad at all.  I have converted my bedroom into a dark sleeping cave and absolutely love my new mattress so things are working out.

In other news, we found an apartment!  Kaela and I are living within the city limits of Denver- so much for getting out of the city, but the 15 minute drive to work is nice and it only takes a bit for me to get to my horses for a break... I have been trail riding in Conifer with Jamie, riding Duke with Brittany, and working with Lucian with Rose so there is no lack of equine in my life!

Monty-man in Staunton State Park 

Lucian doing what he does best... eating!

Duke on the bridle path- yay green grass!

As an alternate to four-legged transportation, I finally sold Ralphie the cr-v and purchased my first new car, Bentley the rav-4.  I have been cruising around town and love the new-car feel!

Ralphie's final photo shoot

Meet Bentley, the new addition!

Social life has been booming, despite the silly night schedule.  A group of 12 or so of my friends and I are doing rotating weekly dinners to keep in touch and just have fun playing games. So far they have all been really tasty and a ton of fun!  I went boating with Maria and Kay, to my cousin Katie's wedding in St. Louis, shopping with Brittany, and to the Notre Dame vs USAFA game with Maggie, Megan, Katie, and Reid.  All in all life after graduation is great, now go put on your pajama pants inside out and tuck a spoon under your pillow in hopes that there will soon be snow on the mountains for ski season!

Boating on Cherry Creek Reservoir (super close to my apt!)

It was one beautiful night, knee boarding was a little chilly after dark though!

Meg, Katie, Colleen, and I at the wedding!

Economical shopping, 2 people (4 legs)  in 1 pair of pants

Tailgate time!

Go Irish, Beat the Falcons!

Hope all is well with you and that you are enjoying equally wonderful fall weather!