Well, in late celebration of Jayna’s birthday and early celebration of mine, we decided to go check out the Rodeo! Amy came up from the Springs to go, too, and neither of them realized I’ve never seen the Rodeo in "real life" before. I have to admit, it was kinda neat! After we watched the "dumb cowboys" (as Ryan told Caleb), we headed on over to the Grizzley Rose for drinks. I made the mistake of telling them not only was it my first time at the Rodeo, but that I had never ridden the bull, either. They convinced me to take a ride after several alcoholic beverages:

~Jen

P.S. I have to admit, it was fun!

 Jordan’s school offered us cheap Nuggets tickets and it fell on a weekend when we had both kids, so we thought it would be fun. What we didn’t realize was that Jordan would get picked to do the “fan tunnel” which means that she got to high-five all the Nuggets players as they came out onto the court for practice!! She ended up getting a t-shirt to commemorate the night and we got to take pictures… of course I had no idea where they were actually standing, so mine suck mostly, but hopefully I will get better ones from the other families!! Before heading over there, we went to ESPN Game Zone because they also gave us a free $10 card to play - that place is pretty neat as well - check out the pictures!

~Jen

Well, somehow it’s already the middle of January! I finally uploaded some more pictures, from Dale’s surprise birthday lunch and also from New Year’s at our house.

We were pretty burnt out by New Year’s with all the running around and Ryan had volunteered to assist their mountain crews and ended up get stuck there overnight, blah blah blah. So, we stayed home and had Jayna & Jason over with Jason & Rachael & kiddos.

The new year has already brought big changes! I moved into a new group at work, which is a new challenge, but fun. Ryan got promoted and is officially a "supervisor" for his team! We’re trying to plan vacations and time off and kids’ weekends, etc. as usual!!

Happy New Year, Jen