Valentine's Day in Denver

On Saturday morning, Valentine's Day, I woke up to a few surprises! First, Matt baked me some Valentine's sugar cookies. Yum!! Second, we woke up to a beautiful snow covering outside! You can kind of see it off of our porch in the picture below:

Here we are...me ready for my third surprise! We loaded overnight bags in the car but Matt
wouldn't tell me where we were going.

When I got to the car, there was this cute little card with hearts and lips drawn on the outside of it! Matt also had Reeses peanut butter hearts and Sweethearts for our trip! But I was instructed to not open the card until we arrived at our destination.

But of course, the car needed to be cleared off before we headed out! Matt took care of that while I waited in the warm car munching on my Reese's peanut butter heart!





We get in the car and head north! I admit I am a little sad as we passed Park Meadows Mall in Denver because secretly, I kind of wanted to go shopping! But still, I greatly anticipated what was planned. At last, we arrive at this Hyatt in Denver and I get kind of excited thinking of just having a relaxing weekend away.

Then, Matt hands me my Valentine's card that I am now allowed to open. It is so cute and so sweet! He made it himself on Publisher. I am forbidden to show it in much detail on the blog, or to quote what it says! But basically, he wrote me a very sweet poem that included in there that we were going to go shopping and he printed out several coupons the night before for some of my favorite stores. He was laughing at me at this point, because I was actually crying because I thought it was so sweet!

I admit that I was a little confused as to why we were at the Hyatt if he said the surprise was shopping. He told me that he did that to throw me off! Can you believe that? But he said it backfired because he thought I would be disappointed at spending money on a hotel when we could spend it on clothes for work that I need! But instead I was kind of getting excited! Ha ha. Poor guy. He never knows what mood I will be in. :)

So after getting a great deal on this fleece to zip into my winter coat at Sport's Authority, we grabbed a delicious lunch at Taco Bell ( I know, it doesn't take much for us!) Then we hit a couple of malls! It was a very fun day! I got some much needed items for work and some fun things too!

The really good news is...we still stayed at Hyatt. Not the first one we went to, but another one some friends of ours were talking about. We got a pretty good deal. Matt even went in without me to try to get a deal from the manager. Ha Ha! It actually worked and he got us a discount. You never know until you try!

At the Hyatt, Matt had me wait in the car until he called me up to the room. When I came into the room this awesome TV was playing music and had these graphics on it. He had tea lights all around the room
(is that allowed?) and a bath set for
me take a luxurious warm bath!

This is the pull out couch when you first walk into the room. I really liked how the whole room was
decorated too. Very warm colors.

He even had rose petals on the bed and rented a movie with Richard Gere in it because I love Runaway Bride so much! Ha ha. But Richard Gere is at his best with
Julia Roberts...I just can't find
a movie that compares!

And the room from the other corner. It was really difficult to get a good picture that captured it all because it is divided up. The sink area and then bathroom is to the right of the tv. And the couch you saw earlier is on the left side of that panel that separated the bedroom from the "living area". If you care, you can go to this link, and get a much better idea of what the room looked like...and the rest of the motel for that matter.

And of course, a fashion show of the day's purchases after my hot bath!











See that ice bucket with the sparkling apple cider in it? I actually thought Matt bought it too because it is green...my favorite color! Then he told me that it was the hotel's ice bucket. Ha ha. I've never been to a hotel with that nice of a bucket...I thought they were always plastic!

It was a fun weekend for us to relax and get away! Sometimes it is fun to spend money on other things then towards your school loans! (That is still fun though too) :) We love you all and hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day! XOXO

Movie Night & Grand Prix Headlights

One might be beginning to wonder what we have been doing out here in Colorado lately...seeing as I have not updated for awhile. Well, I certainly will not be completely filling you in on account of time. But I have just a few things to note...and it seems that only the things I have pictures of get mentioned!

(By the way, I meant to take pics of our CO license plates months ago after we got them just because it was exciting to us! So here is one now...better late than never! And Mark, we will save you one as requested! They put one on the front & back of your vehicle out here so if we should ever leave this beautiful state, we will have 4!)


The last few weekends have been relaxing yet productive for us. Sometimes on the weekends we like to pull out our air mattress that my parents bought for us and watch a movie in the living room! We don't have a television in our bedroom so the concept of laying down on a bed to watch a movie is great fun. ha ha. Plus, we don't have to get up and go to bed after it is over...we can just fall right asleep. And we love that air mattress. It is comfortable!



This past weekend was gorgeous! It got up into the 60's on Saturday. Which is crazy for a Colorado January...you would think. But the weather fluctuates a lot around here. Anyway, Matt took the opportunity to work on the Grand Prix. His dad sent out the headlights from Courtney's Grand Prix that were in need of replacement. But they were A LOT better than our headlights that we struggle to tell if are on in the pitch dark night. Ours have cracks in them and are very foggy.

Oh yeah, funny story about Matt's hair: I was in the office the other night while he was doing his routine cut. He just uses hair clippers to cut his hair. It doesn't take long. He just puts the correct length attachment on and "zippp" he cuts his hair to the length he desires. However, he does use two different attachments for the shorter length on the side of his head and the longer length on the top of his head. So as I "working" hard on the computer, I all of the sudden hear a quiet but distinct "Uh-Oh!" uttered from my husband's mouth in the next room . I jump up to see what the concern is...only to find my poor husband examining the top of his head. Sure enough he used the short clippers from the side of his head right down the top of his head! It was quite comical looking...especially considering it stopped dead halfway back his head at what point he noticed an obvious malfunction! Of course, at that point he had no choice but to buzz the rest of the hair on his head to the same short length. The growing back stage takes me back to our college days of his hair growing back after a complete head shave. Or back to the time, 3 months prior to our wedding, he decided to play basketball with the Dodgens on a low hoop. No problem there, except until he decided to jump up and slice the top of his head on the bottom of the backboard. In order to "glue" (I'm not kidding about this one-actual super glue) his cut together, his hair had to be buzzed close. Thanks Mom Witt for assisting...I was nauseous from the blood and comotion. No, nursing would definitely not be my calling. Thankfully, by wedding day, it was pretty close to normal length. Now as for our engagement pictures, he does look a little bit like a service man. But it worked. So I know that 3 months is about the longest we will endure the growing back stage from experience! Ha ha. It's really not that bad actually. It has already grown back quite a bit! Sorry, that quick story got long-winded. I do apologize!





Here is our car (finally washed...sorry, Dad!) being worked on!













As you can see here, there is a big difference in the newer and old headlight!









And...the finished product! These headlights look SO much better than our originals. And you wouldn't believe how much better we can see the road when driving at night! Thanks Dad W! We know you spent a lot of time cleaning them up for us and shipping them out. You're still helping us with our car needs even miles away! You saved us a lot of money. We love them!