Ello, luvs! (Feelin' a bit Brit-ish today!)

Speaking of British things..HI TO MY SEESTER IN LONDON! Isn't she lucky? (Sarah is spending her fall semester in London. Such a jerk! Hehe, kidding. I'm just jealous...)

Did you know that if you say "beer can" with a British accent it sounds like you're saying "bacon" with a Jamaican accent? TRY IT! I did that for like ten minutes and laughed to myself so hard for so long....ay yai yai, I'm crazy. This post got off to a random start!

Bagsy Boy was being a little sh*t while I was trying to get stuff done after school today. I was in the guest room trying to look up some coupons online and I heard this "BANG BANG BANG" coming from the kitchen. It was quite a distinct sound and I knew right away what it was and what he wanted. He was smacking the cupboards so the door would open and slam shut really fast so that he could get me into the kitchen and get an ice cube.

I recorded this for your viewing pleasure :)

So, a couple things I have to add after watching the video:

1.. Listen at 50 seconds for the weird meow/purr/cat burp sound our dear feline child constantly makes. I love it but I can't figure it out...BARUPPP!

2.. Our house looks like a pit, please ignore that. We're on a big couponing kick so we collect newspapers and as you can see, they get thrown on the floor and stay there for a week until it's time to vacuum! The garbage can was a reason that I ALMOST DID NOT post this video! How gross are those stains on the front!? I don't think I would have noticed them if I didn't record the video. Yuck.

3.. The bowl on the floor is for our spoiled cat who doesn't like to drink out of his regenerating water fountain. He just plays in it and after a couple days you can find whiskers, hair, kitty litter and food floating around in there. He really is a brat.

THAT'S ALL FOLKS! Oh wait, one more thing....Keats wants a new cat OR dog. What are your thoughts? I'm going to keep my mouth shut until I hear all of your thoughts. (SO THAT MEANS YOU HAVE TO LEAVE A COMMENT!)

Dad and Connie Come to Colorado

This picture was taken about twenty minutes after I had gotten home from work last Wednesday...as you can tell, we were already having a good time. :)

Silly lady! We just hung out at home on the first night as it was rainy and icky out and I was battling an awful cold.

Night number two: Dad, Connie and I went to the Tasty Weasel Tap Room for an Oskar Blues brewery tour. Dad was having trouble finding his way around...

There are about 7,588 cans on one of the pallets right in front of Dad. (Remember that number for later. Seriously, you will be quizzed.)

We got to see them filling and putting lids on the beer cans.

The man running the machine wasn't filling anything when we were on our tour, but he ran some empty cans through and made us some....

COIN BANKS! More like a savings account since you can't get your money back out. (Well, you can but you know what I mean.)

Alright, back to the number I threw at you earlier. The aluminum cube you see in the picture is made up of one of those pallets...that's 7,588 CANS! Whoa. Dad thought it weighed about 50-60 pounds or so. In the background of the picture you can see the sitting area for after the tour is done, complete with skiball, foosball and carpet ball!

After the first brewery, we headed to Lyons to visit ANOTHER Oskar Blues. I love the background here! Keats and I visited this place after we signed our lease in June.

Our last stop of the night was the Eagle Grill right by our house. Connie is up on the stage singing "Black Velvet" and there were two couples dancing to her song, haha!

GO HAWKS!

Night three: We went to a small bar (Jerry D's) in Dacono to meet up with some of Dad and Connie's friends from Sturgis.

The "backyard" of this bar was THEEEE coolest! It had an island theme and there was a tiki bar outside with horseshoes and bocce ball!

My handsome man :)

On Saturday morning we woke up early to go to the farmer's market at the Boulder county fairgrounds. It was filled with lots of goodies!

You can kiiinda see the mountains in the back.

We went to Left Hand brewery on Saturday afternoon (didn't get any good pictures) and then we went to McCarthy's Pub which is THEE dump of all dumps! But it did have the cheapest pitchers we had seen all weekend. And $1.00 french fries! My mama didn't raise no fool! ;) We obviously played pool, which I don't think I have EVER done outside of my Grandma and Grandpa's! I was terrible, but it was fun!

Peeping Tom in action. (Why would they spray paint windows on?!)

On Saturday night we had ribs and sweet corn. IT WAS AWESOOOME!

Thanks to Dad and Connie for a great (and entertaining) couple of days! I was so glad they came out and I was so sad to see them leave. I had to hold back the tears at the airport! I won't see them again until late December. :(

Broncos Game

We got to go to the Broncos game this past Monday (Monday Night Football) and we had a great time. I know I took a picture of the stadium as we walked in, but I'm not sure where the picture went. Bummer! We had Kendall drop us off at the stadium so we wouldn't have to mess with parking and long story short, we got stuck in traffic and had to watch the "opening ceremonies" from the highway...which I guess wasn't half bad. There were parachuters flying down into the stadium, two with fireworks, one with the American flag. The people next to us said that it was very cool, so I was cranky that I missed it. Sorry, Keats :) OH and can you guess which row we sat in? If you guessed the VERY TOP ROW...you are correct.

My legs were jello after that walk. Maybe I should climb these stairs everyday for my workout? Hahaha....I'll get back to you on how that goes.

And if you guessed that it rained while we were there...you would have been right again.

It rained hard. REALLY hard.

We left at the beginning of the 3rd quarter because we both had to get up at 6 and I was already battling a cold. All in all, we had a good time. The atmosphere was crazy and it was packed until the rain came! Thanks for the tickets, Randy!

I Hate Technology (Sometimes...)!

I don't know why the pictures in the other post don't work. Unfortunately, it's 9:14 here and I don't feel like fixing it for a second time....grrrr! So, you can look at the pictures and figure out for yourselves what caption goes with what photo. Sorry, folks!

A Little Bit of Everything

Our sweet boy just loungin' around :)

We went to the Rockies game on Tuesday and it had been raining ALL day on Monday and part of Tuesday, which is really unusual around here I guess. I thought the mountains looked cool with the clouds hovering over the valley. (I'm so glad I almost always carry my camera!)

We had some awesome seats for this game. I wasn't even zoomed in at all in this picture! Too bad we weren't playing the Cardinals this game...Dad would have loved those pictures!

I had seats reserved for my entire family. Where the heck were you guys!? Haha :) The weather and the middle of the week game didn't sound appealing for others, I guess. These seats did fill in eventually, fyi!

Keats got some Chinese good from this vendor. See him? He said it was decent. I got "Monster Nachos" which turned out to be gross. Bummer! They looked yummy though! (Dang, why didn't I take a picture?!)

We got rained on! It was a light drizzle for most of the game so that was pretty annoying. I took these pictures right as we were about to leave (at the middle of the 7th inning).

Bagheera is so lucky to have Keats as a "dad" -- he bought him this luxurious cat mansion. Bagheera liked the box it came in better though...figures.

Now that it's built, he looooves it!

This was hilarious to see.....

...until he fell out of the tube thing two seconds after we took this picture. We felt so bad, but he ran right back to the top!

Keats was sitting on the couch and saw Bagheera's reflection that fit perfectly with our thrift store mirror. He truly is a jungle cat! Funny thing about that mirror -- we found it at a thift store for $8.00. We really liked it because it fit well with our jungle-themed living room, or whatever you want to call it! We recently found out how durable this thing is (it weighs a good 2 pounds at least!) as Bagheera jumped from the chair to the mantle knocking it off TWICE! It fell and landed face down on the tile both times and it didn't break! A black cat breaking a mirror...now THAT has to be bad luck! Whew.

We still haven't thrown the box away...he doesn't mind.

We've already changed Bagheera's bedroom a little bit!

We went to WalMart to buy a couple things late one night and came back with a whole new desk set...! They had college/dorm stuff on sale and we got the desk and chair for $14.50 each (both regularly $40). I got the rolling cart for FOUR DOLLARS! I couldn't believe that. The exact same one in white was still $12.87 or something...guess that worked out well for me since I like pink. Could you tell? I use this as my make-up area since Keats and I are often fighting for the bathroom when getting ready in the mornings.

I got the pink tub under the desk (serving as my trash can) for $4.00 and the desktop organizer was $2.50. I went a couple of days ago and it was still $4.00. I really wanted it then, but couldn't justify spending that much on it...glad I waited! Are you proud, mom? I asked myself "Is it a want or a need?" It was both, so I got it. Hahaha! :) I've had the lighted mirror, which I LOVE, since I was a freshman in college. I never turned the lights on while my roommate was sleeping, so I always used it to get ready in the morning. I even went into the student lounge to dry my hair. Holy cow, I'm glad those days are over!

Anywho, enough with the boring talk. We're going to the Broncos game tomorrow and it doesn't start until 8:15. I'm sleepy just thinking about it! And......

MY DAD AND CONNIE ARE COMING ON WEDNESDAY!!! I'm so so so excited! (So be on the lookout for new posts and pics!)