Happy New Years Eve!

Does everyone have their New Years resolutions all set and ready to go? I'm not doing that, because let's face it-I always forget what I was resolving to change and that my friends is pointless. So this year I am entering a new realm of resolve. It's called Day Zero Project and you can find out more here if you would like.

A quick rundown of the project is to reach 101 goals in 1,001 days.

So far I have 50 items on my list and I need to come up with 51 more. I have approximately 14 hours to complete my list as I've decided to start on that list first thing tomorrow morning! It is harder than you would think to come up with 101 life changing and/or memorable goals for my list. I don't want to fill it with fluff that I know I can accomplish, I want to make each one memorable for either me or the person it is aimed at, and also throw some in there that are just plain fun. Hopefully I can find 101 things and be creative at the same time.

I challenge you all to resolve for something this coming new year. Why keep plugging away at life and not try to encourage yourself to do something greater. No matter the leap- whether it be big or small- take it. Don't waste life by just being. Be something better!

I hope that everyone has a safe and Happy New Years eve and New Years Day!

Cheers! Here is to 2010!!

Life is good

We have had a busy few weeks and are happy it's finally calming down. What have we been up to? Let's see.... Shopping for Christmas, wrapping presents, went to Amy's company holiday party, we hosted a cookie exchange with some of our newlywed friends, we tried our hand at trivia (didn't fair so well but had a lot of fun!), enjoyed hanging out with our families on Christmas, did some snowshoeing, did some after Christmas sale shopping...... whew! And now it's now.

Some pics from the past few weeks:

Jeff says hi!

Kim wants everyone to check out this awesome bow!

A normal morning for the O'Brien clan on Christmas. Jeff and Roxy snuggling, and Kipp playing with his toys

Some good old fashioned lightsaber fighting using small children as a shield.

Rockstar showing off the view from our snowshoeing adventure on Saturday.

Kipp patiently waiting with his mom for Dad to come rocketing, errr slowly skiing down the mountain.

It is time to now start coming up with New Years resolutions. I think to start one of mine is going to be to play freestyle Frisbee with my dogs more. :) Maybe I can even get Jeff to come to the park with us and take some pictures!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

Last night Jeff and I stayed up late, watching movies and decorating for Christmas. Since it's a little late to get a real tree, we busted out the old, fake one from hiding and put that up. Upon decorating the tree, I realized we have quite a few horrible ornaments..... Those after Christmas sales are going to be calling my name. I need to come up with a theme, not ugly would be a nice start.

I forgot to take a picture last night, so I asked Jeffrey to send me a picture off of his cell phone. Here is our tree! (With the sweetest dog in the world helping to show it off!)

Yes, it needs more ornaments. But I still like it. :)

I'm off work tomorrow and Monday.....so we will be finishing up our Christmas shopping! Yay!! And wrapping gifts and getting them put under the tree. We are going to bake cookies and take the dogs to the park and drink Pepperment Schnapps laced hot chocolate and cook some delicious food.

I LOVE CHRISTMASTIME!!!

Home sweet home

First order of business? Go pick up Team RK from my pops. He is the best dog sitter in the world and we always have two happy black and white pups greet us when we come home from a trip.

Ahhhh, life is good. We are home and I am loving this contentment. We walked in the door and I headed straight to the kitchen and started cooking. I love my kitchen. We ate some delicious, fresh angel hair pasta with ricotta parmesan meat sauce for dinner. A glorious pot of coffee was brewed and now we're sitting in our living room on our comfy couches and watching Julie and Julia.

I opened all of our Christmas cards that came while we were in Texas; it's one of my favorite things to do. Although, it reminds me that I haven't mailed ours out yet....or written any of them yet either. Hmmmm, I guess I know what we're doing tomorrow!

Texas was good. I really miss my family there and really need to make a commitment to visit more often. It was a perfect treat to be able to see our family and some friends while we were there. We saw the Alamo and the Riverwalk. Xavier got to meet his cousins, Xyalia and Jenessa. We played Uno and dominos just like back in the day when we would visit Grandma. It was peaceful and wonderful to be able to do that again.

Do all kids smile like this? Apparently.....

My boys

No entrance, or exit according to Jeff.

Little mans can smile normally! I proved it!

Dave and X along the Riverwalk.

The fog made for some cool shots around the city.

Apparently I like old buildings, I took plenty of pictures of them.

And doorways. I like doorways too.

Jeff is getting into the holiday spirit. Only 9 days until Christmas people!!

Until next time, San Antonio. You were good to us.

Snowy post

Happy snow days!!!!

I hope everyone is staying warm in this cold ass weather! Keep on keeping on. It can't last forever, can it?! ;)

It's a little chilly, no?

So, today it's somewhere around 10 degrees. Awesome. Well we decided that we've had enough. On Saturday we are out of here and going to TX! Jeff, David, Xavier and I are all flying out to San Antonio to go visit the family and some friends. I am thanking Southwest Airlines for their super duper cheap fares for this one. :)

We come back on Tuesday evening. Man, back to back vacations? Life is rough for Team O'Brien right now! I wish I had taken some pics when Jeff and I were in Frisco and Vail this past weekend, but alas - I didn't. But it was beautiful, relaxing, cold, fun, and just what the doctor ordered! We ate delicious food, walked around and enjoyed the sights, did some shopping, saw some old friends, and had a really nice time. Let's hope the trip to TX includes all of the above minus the cold.

Update on our Piper kitten: She is in her new home. A super nice family with another kitten and a one year old puppy adopted her. The family has 4 kids from 8 years old to 21-so she will get love, love, love, attention, attention, attention and more love from them. The 21 year old who adopted her is sick and stays in bed most of the day. She has sent me updates that Piper has lifted her spirits and keeps her smiling all day, so it really couldn't have been a better fit.

Bye Pipes. We will miss you!

Special Sneak Preview!

Well we went back up to Evergreen on Saturday to take our formal portaits in our wedding gear with a new photographer since our pictures didn't really 'WOW' us from the wedding. Our new photographer, Tamara Murphy, was wonderful. She sent us some of her favorites from the shoot and here they are!

We love them! It was chilly for sure. After a while I think our smiles were frozen on our faces but it was definitely worth it. And our clothes are a muddy mess. I don't even want to know what that dry cleaning bill is going to run us!

New news

Well let's see, since we've updated the blog what have we been up to?


Jeff has been looking for a job - so send those good job vibes his way! :) But in the meantime, he has enjoyed his days off by skiing and riding his new dirt bike! And cleaning the house, although that isn't very exciting to talk about. He has really been getting better on the bike and is pretty proud of himself. Which is exciting since he hasn't ridden one of these bikes in quite some time.

Here she is:

We have also been enjoying the great weather lately (although it snowed last night!) and have been taking the dogs to the park and playing Frisbee golf with our amigos.

We hosted Thanksgiving at our house with just my mom, Gary, David, Jeffrey and me. It was a quaint little Thanksgiving feast but a wonderful and relaxing time. We had turkey, green bean casserole, broccoli, loaded baked potato casserole, rolls, sweet potato souffle (coutesy of my momma-dear), cranberry mandarin sauce, caramel apple pecan pie, pumpkin pie (momma again), and pumpkin cheesecake (and mom again!). Then shrimp cocktail and mac n' cheese bites for our appetizers. So yummy! I hope everyone spent their Thanksgiving with the one/s they love.

On Saturday we re-did our formal wedding pictures with our photography company. I will post more about that tomorrow with a little sneak preview from the photographer herself! :) We went up to Evergreen Lake, and although it was pretty dang cold it was fun. I'm excited to see the pictures! I will post the link when I get it.

Oh, and for the sad news of the day we are going to have to find a new home for our little Piper kitty. She and the dogs just aren't getting along. It's not going to work out- so if you know of anyone who wants an adorable little kitty let us know!

Testing, can you see my kitchen?

Looks like we're going back to blog one. Sorry there haven't been many posts lately. Wordpress hates me so I'm coming back to Blogger. Hopefully everyone can see the pictures of the house that are below.

My awesome fridge with our new fancy Crate & Barrel wine cabinet courtesy of Kimberly! :)

My cool knife holder.

Looking out from the kitchen into the living room.

Sorry most of these are taken with a weird setting....it was late/dark and these were turning out the best.

Ahhhh, well let's hope this works..... one day I will figure out this whole blogging thing!

Well this sucks...

I didn't want to but it has to be done. This site is not so user friendly with my new Macbook - so I have moved on! Please continue following the lives and adventures of Amy and Jeffrey here:

http://jeffandamyo.wordpress.com/

The weekend edition

We had a busy weekend this weekend, but it was fun!

Friday night we went out for sushi with Jeff's mom.

Saturday we put some furniture back in the house now that OUR FLOORS ARE DONE!! Woot!! I also made a casserole for breakfast because I was so excited to use my new oven. :) Then we cleaned the house some more, then cleaned ourselves up and went out to see Warren Miller at the Paramount Theatre. Good times.

Sunday Jeff woke up at 3 in the morning to go help one of our friends who owns a snow plow business shovel snow. Then he came home around 11 and we napped until it was time to go up to Evergreen for a pre-Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving dinner with his fam. It was delicious!! And a nice little treat in the beginning of November. We came home and I made chili for our annual chili cook-off for work tomorrow. Send me good chili tasting vibes...I've only made chili once so I can use all the help I can get. :)

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Meanwhile, here are a few pictures from a couple of weekends ago when we spent the night at the Highland Haven Inn. This is the same place we stayed at on our wedding night, so we hold it near and dear to our hearts. The floors were being sealed (or something-I don't really remember) and we wouldn't be able to go home and walk on them until late, so I booked us and the pups a room at the HHI. It was SO worth it too.

This is the entrance to the Inn.

It was a beautiful morning in Evergreen.


And of course-a beautiful morning means a game of pine cone fetch, cuz, why not? The dogs were LOVING our little retreat.


And we snuggled too.


And we ate the most delicious breakfast. They always serve the yummiest dishes.

I *might* be changing our blog service.... So please check back later today or tomorrow for more info!!

Happy Birthday, Carlene!!!

Jeff's mom's birthday is today!! Everyone say Hi and Happy Birthday!!

(I 'borrowed' this picture off yahoo images, if it's yours may I please use it? Thanks!)

Man, where have we been?

BUSY! Holy cow have we been busy. There has been something going on every evening/night since we posted last. But what is most exciting? Amy has a new laptop!! Which means that I can start posting more. :) Yay! I'm slowly figuring out all the bells and whistles on my new Macbook, but it's a fun notebook. I'm super excited to have it!

We have a new refrigerator. We have a new microwave. We have some awesome new wood floors. We have started to put up and use some of our wedding presents which is SO much fun! The pot rack is up above the window in the kitchen with the new pots and pans hanging from it. The knives are stuck to the magnetic holder on the wall. The entertainment center that Dave got us from Crate and Barrel is set up downstairs with our tv on it. Our house is starting to feel like our home again. Soon, we will have our furniture back in our living room and kitchen and we will be back to normal. And we cannot wait for that!

A few pictures of what has been keeping us entertained lately:

We went for a couple nice little walks up in Evergreen and Lookout Mtn last weekend. Such gorgeous views!

And Piper....she's been keeping us annoyed, er...entertained. I mean-look at this face! She is just too cute!

And my stove gets delivered today!! Woot! I'm pretty darn excited about that. We never want to eat out at a restaurant again! Ok, maybe not for a month or two.....