a day in the summer

yep. another day in brooklyn... oop denver. its a hot day here; the temp is up in the high 90s and the humidity is in the 70s. there are many crazy things here in the city. over 10 jewelers in one mall, crazy lisping people (with bad english) at the mcdonalds (good ice cream though!), overly high hydrolics (kinda like napolean dynamite, ok so exactly like that, even with mexicans in some of the cars), and of coars the mean people. jon and i miss the minnesota nice! we are going to have to become some crazzed mean drivers and unfriendly people to fit in in some places around the cities. oh well, i think we can make it.

denver is my home

here is a before and after pic of the living room. i dont have one yet of the bedroom; its not done yet cause i am still painting the book shelf.
before:
after:


im liking it here. its a struggle knowing that we dont know anyone around here besides jon's sister and my friend dan. i'm overwhelmed; jon just doesnt understand. i need a mental break. to add onto the stress (im getting the cancor soar from stress) jons dad is still pushing and pushing for me to get that presentation/slide show thing done right away; he should be happy that i went to work on friday only hours before we had to move. it make me a anoyed that he keeps pushing, i understand he wants it done but give me some space: we just moved. i'm feeling the whole in-law thing happening... along with the moving, it was nice to have chris and jake help us out but the night after we got there they were all about getting a drink and other stuff. its as if chris was a mini jake, which isnt the best thing. both are great guys and i appreciate it butthye shouldnt have acted that way. alright, the good things. its great to have our new place, the schools are prety much ready to go and are ready for us to start (somehow UWS sent my transcript to jon's school. i dont know what to think of that) another is that our stuff is prety much unpacked and mary is coming over tomorrow with the girls for lunch, we are going to hang out with dan sometime this week. there's good and bad. ok, one odd thing... i havent driven yet in denver even though i have been here a few times, live here, and my car is here too. crazy.

7 hours left

only seven hours left until jon and i are on our way to our new home in denver. crazy that it is that close. the last week has been way too crazy for my likings and the heat has been overwhelmingly suffocating. yesterday i was doing inventory at waite park ff and just standing there and persperating like nothing else. i'm not going to miss the minnesota humidity.

photographia

i made this compilation out of some photos i have taken within the last few weeks.

oh man, life is busy lately. jon and i are moving out to denver on friday evening, driving the 14 hours there through the night. Jake, Chris, and Molly are out buddies that are coming with to help out. they are great. other than the moving, i went on the ride for kids with my dad yesterday; as always, my butt got prety soar. last week i got together with dena and we had a dessert together and chatted. saturday, we went to molly's grad party and packed up our stuff, my parents got a new dog, mya was overjoyed (lillian said that she does the nursery on wednesdays and mya always talked about snowy and how she was gone/dead now, sad). i got dehydrated today which didnt feel good at all; there is a first time for everything. tomorrow dad is hopefully bringing the trailor full of boxes from there house to dan and faiths house so that we can get that stuff in the the trailor we are bringing do denver. wednesday the youth group from snake river is coming over to the house to chill on the boat with us (jon and i have been teaching youth this summer). thursday pete, ryan starr, and dena are probably going to come over to go out on the boat, then friday jon and i have the day off and are going to finish packing and hopefully leave around 6pm. its prety crazy getting older, time doesnt like to stick around.

up since 5 am

the pics are from regis university where jon is going this fall






the last few days have been overly long. jon and i have been getting up around five, leaving for work by six so that we can get to the stores before the take down crew loads up all the plants. our job is to do the final inventory and then help the road crew load up the flowers. today we went down to winona, a gorgeous place here in the state of minnesota, and i slept almost the whole way. poor jon, he is prety worn out. yesterday we put in an 11 hour day today was only a 10.

good news, last weekend we flew to colorado to search for appartments. we had appointments for two that were near regis university and we decided on the one right across the street from regis. that will save on gas money, making me the main driver seeing as i have to drive 5 minutes or so into downtown denver to my college. the hopes are to save money that way. other good things, both college cost are covered by loans and grants (being married has it ups with school stuff too, and people say to wait). we also have an outline of what our finances will look like for the next year. its nice to have that done. another thing, jon and i went to wicks funiture and looked at some sofas, they were crazily overpriced for a closing sale, so we took his mothers advice and went to ashleys furniture. at that store we landed ourselfves a great clearance sale set. we got the couch, love seat, coffee and end tables, and a rug for less than the sofa and love seat cost at wicks. there is also no interest for a year. that is a nice thing: we should have it paid off within the next few weeks.

the totushek weekend

its been a long weekend. working all friday and then volunteering friday night, pete and kelly's wedding on saturday afternoon and going out on the boat with the ryans and jon saturday night (left the reception early), heading to church sunday morning for elizabeth and abby's dedication then the whole fam over at the house in the afternoon, today jon and i headed down to iowa for work and then up to owatonna in a hurry (dumb jerry!), then get back home and the fam is over and then go out on the boat again and then now just hangin out. im so tired! here are a few pics i have taken in the last few days.