Happy Halloween

It's been a while since I dressed up for Halloween. As a small child I remember longing to be a pretty fairy princess and ending up in a sack-type dress that had been dyed pink. An elastic band secured a pointy hat with puff-paint stars on it to my head. Another year I remember being too sick to wear my pretty butterfly costume around the neighborhood to collect candy, instead I lay on the couch and heard the rest of the neighborhood kids come to our door.

So Halloween has never been my favorite holiday. The anticipation never seems to live up to the actual event.

This year, though, I decided to get into the spirit (or rather, was persuaded to get into the spirit by my roommates) and I went to a costume party, in a costume and everything.

However, in less you are familiar with the TV show The Office, you wouldn't really know that I was dressed up at all. That's the best kind of costume, really—one that is readily available in the closet. My biggest difficulty in becoming Pam was trying to make my hair curl. I seem to remember that being a problem when I dressed up as a fairy princess as well.

Pam, Ryan, Kelli, and Angela

I was a beginning-of-third-season Pam. Jim was nowhere to be found.

24

23 has been a pretty good year. I wasn't sure a year ago if it could live up to 22, but it just might have. I'll have to think about that one a bit more.

I got birthday wishes from Facebook. That's kinda cool.

And I got birthday cinnamon rolls - yum!

It's not even 9 a.m., and so far, it's a good birthday.

It's Snowing!

Happy October 21st!

More fall goodness

Snow fell on the mountains yesterday. I woke up this morning (with a text from someone who knew how excited I would be about the snow) and saw the mountains through my window, covered in a substantial layer of white happiness.
No more dusty brown mountains in the distance. Now they are white and majestic looking and provide a great backdrop for the orange, yellow, and red trees in town.

pretty colors

I love the fall.
The trees are all yellow or orange.
There's a red tree in my new front yard. It matches the trim of the house.

finished

Well, I am now a triathlete. I didn't fall off my bike, and I didn't drown. And as you can see from the picture above (taken by my awesome friend Sarah), the weather allowed me to wear a wonderfully colorful ensemble of clothing—much to the jealousy of all the hard-core athletes with their matching black rain gear, bikes, and helmets.

Overall we had a fun weekend, saw some gorgeous fall colors, and Colorado scenery, and we even got to sleep in a teepee, so I think it was a success.