{Colorado}

After dreaded finals ended Abel and I were fortunate enough to take a trip to 3:00AM-- yes AM! to head for the airport. Just to sit on a plane for an hour and a half waiting for them to fix the anti-freeze on the plane. Comforting, I know!

Any who, we headed out finally at 8:00AM.

Sitting on the plane

We slept and chillaxed on Thursday to get ready for skiing Friday and Saturday!

--Friday--
So, as I mentioned before I have not been skiing since 5Th grade, so the first day I was literally shaking in my ski's. Sadly, Lauren had to work today and was not able to join us. Abel and Jake would not let me do ski lessons! They said they would not let me waste my money and they would teach me themselves! So Coco mo (bunny slopes) here we come! I made it off the first lift gracefully and without falling... Whew! Skied a few feet and WIPE! I was down! I thought, "Great, I can't even go a few feet. How am I going to do this for two days?" But with the amazing encouragement of Jake and Abel, I got back up and skied down the rest of the run without a fall! We stayed on Greens all day long and after lunch i let the pros do some blacks while I rested! **Boy, did I need a rest!** They got back and we finished on the greens!!

Day 2 of skiing: --Saturday--
Lauren was able to come today! I was so excited, because they could not take turns dragging with me and doing hard stuff as well. BUT, my totally encouraging, amazing, handsome, great, awesome boyfriend stayed with me the WHOLE day! I fell a lot on our first run on the green. I was SO super frustrated because my goal was to do blue's that day. Well, he encouraged me and we did one more green and then blue's the rest of the day! I could not have done it without Abel that day coaching me and encouraging me down the mountain! It was SO much fun and by the end of the day I was doing some harder blue's. Now, yes, I did fall a lot on them but I made it through and LOVED it! I cannot wait to go back and ski!!! It's SO fun! Again, I cannot brag Abel up enough... He was SUCH an encouragement and supporter of me all day long.

--Sunday--

*We went to Jake and Lauren's church.
*The Nutcracker was next on the agenda! If you have not been, I recommend going! I went in 2nd grade at First Baptist (my dad went with me as a date, precious right!), but for the most part did not remember it.
*Dinner time! If you are ever in Boulder I would 100% recommend The Med (Mediterranean). Talk about some good food! We then took a stroll down Pearl Street and ate some frozen yogurt. YUM!
*Lauren and I were dying to see some Christmas lights so the boys drove us around some fancy neighborhoods and we were able to "ooh and ah" over the sights.
*We wrapped our day up with Home Alone.

--Monday--
We stayed around their apartment and played some fierce games of Canasta and Abel and I went out to the mall and shopped.

On a bridge on our shopping adventure

Tuesday we headed home sweet home.

I know this is a long post but, I have to thank Jake and Lauren for letting us crash at their place for 5 nights! They are so sweet and we had such a wonderful time. We are truly blessed to have them in our lives.