Pumpkins

The Conga Monsta and a Dia de los Muertos Skull.  

Can you guess whose is whose?

Toasted

Over the past few weeks we have noticed our toaster has not been working well. So, we got this new spiffy motorized toaster! And, we got it for a great deal thanks to a sale, an additional 30% off coupon and free shipping.

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Grandpa Hale turns 90!

We had a birthday get together for Grandpa Hale tonight.

First Snow of the Season

More on the way tonight, they say.

Stranded in Charlotte

I left the house yesterday at 10:00 am for a business trip to Louisville.  Almost 24 hours later, I am still not in Kentucky.  

My connecting flight was cancelled last night.  US Airways put me up in a dingy hotel in the middle of nowhere.

On my re-scheduled flight now.  

Cyclocross

We watched our buddy Brian's Cyclocross race this afternoon.  He took 7th overall, his best placing yet this season.

Brian is in the middle in the orange and black.  He races for Boulder Cycle Sport.

View from the Backyard this Evening.

The Great American Beer Fest

After spending the morning and early afternoon out and about, we headed back to the house to relax and make pretzel necklaces in preparation for The Great American Beer Fest.

There were 580 Breweries and 2500+ beers at this years festival.  The tickets sold out in a record 45 minutes.  Last year tickets sold out in a week.  We are still not sure how Chris managed to get 4 tickets during that time.  We are glad he did.

Erica was diligent in keeping good records of what breweries we stopped at and what beers we tried.  At first count, it looks like we tasted over 50 beers.  The pretzel necklaces were a life saver with all of the high ABV beers.

You can check out this year's beer winners here.

Stranahan's

Here we are at Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey Tasting Room.  We took the tour with Will and Brian yesterday morning.  Afterwards we ate at the Rackhouse Pub which is attached to the distillery.  The food was very good.  Then we headed down the street to Breckenridge Brewery for some beer flights.

We're Baaack!

We escaped the snow and the cold last Friday and flew to Cabo for a week.  We arrived back in Denver this past Friday at 9:30pm and met up with our friend Will, who flew in from VA to go to the Great American Beer Fest with us yesterday.  We still have to go through our vacation pictures and will be recapping the week soon.

It's Snowing!

Special Olympics Colorado

I was lucky enough to be invited to the Special Olympics Hall of Fame Breakfast a few weeks ago.  It was a wonderful introduction to the organization.  The athletes are so amazing and inspiring.  I was very pleasantly surprised to receive this letter in the mail today.  So sweet. And, he is a swimmer!  Made my day.