a few details

so, a quick rundown of the last 10-or-so months:

-we moved out of our shitty apartment in april to stay with some friends (pete, amy, and their kiddo elliot) from our church for a couple months:











-alyssa went to costa rica with our church on a "missions trip" to love-up on those crazy costa ricans:

-wedding bells in august:











-alyssa had her tonsils removed in august after we got back from the wedding. our friends from chicago, megan and aaron, decided to get a mile-high. we are glad their here, in fact conor is very excited the megan let him borrow her f-me boots:













-in september, brandi and todd, and child cooper (sis, and bro in-law) came out to hang, and to watch the broncos do whatever they do:











-in october we celebrated 3 years of bliss in vail. the next weekend we celebrated my step-dad's 60th also in vail:




















-in november our minneapolis friends (and alyssa's college roomies) came to visit and later alyssa went home to iowa for thanksgiving:











-alyssa got a job as a nanny, loved the kids to death, but due to the crazy-ass parents chose to look for a new job doing kind of what she did before (residential treatment for abused and neglected kids) except in their own homes instead of a live-in treatment center.

-BLIZZARD!









-conor started school... again. it's been 8 years since his feet crossed the threshold of higher learning.

...in a nutshell