Happy Birthday, Kristen!

Kristen's birthday was on Friday. She took the day off of work, and spent the day playing with her new KitchenAid mixer. In the evening we headed up to Nederland for the night. Kristen saw a mountain lion on the way up, unfortunately I was too busy white-knuckling the car along the icy road to see the lion in time.

We had a nice dinner, and stayed in our favorite hotel. The next morning we headed to Blackhawk for some high stakes gambling. We both lost about $20 on the penny slots after several hours. Luckily the weather had warmed up and the drive back to Boulder was a lot less stressful.



Sunday involved me spending a bunch of time at work doing a big software delivery. Kristen headed to her sister Allison's house to do some cookie baking. Kristen really enjoys hanging out with her nephew Maddock.

Winter is here! We've had a good amount of snow falling in the Boulder area for the last week or so. The mountains are really getting pounded, which is great news for the ski and snowboard enthusiasts. My co-worker Mike managed to play hooky on Friday, and made it up to Winter Park to enjoy the 20"+ of new snow.



The weather kept us pretty close to home all weekend. We did make it to a party at a co-worker's house on Friday night.

I managed to update the treehouse blog with the last details of this fall's trip. Kristen studied, we both pet the cats, and generally tried to stay warm.

Not much to report for last week. I'm having a hard time getting in the Christmas spirit, I still have a lot of shopping to do. Kristen's in better shape than I am shopping-wise, and is impatiently waiting for me to find that spirit.

It was a cold weekend, creeping into the 40s by Sunday. Kristen did a lot of studying, I did a lot of programming for a few projects I'm working on. Unfortunately, neither activity is very interesting when photographed.

The cats managed to get a lot of attention. Now that the weather is considerably cooler, they've both been crowding in on the bed at night. They seem to wait until you're in the most awkward position of the night, then they plant themselves in such a way that you can't move.

The end of year work rush is in full swing. We're in pretty good shape though, so I think we'll survive the crunch.