My morning started at 5:30 am...yes, it's Saturday! Side note: when I was growing up my Mom always told me that nothing good happens after 10:00 pm, well Mom, nothing good happens before 8:00 am on a Saturday either!!! Needless to say it was early and I wasn't a happy camper for having to wake up that time on a Saturday. Who made me get up at that time of day you ask? Well, it was my dear husband! He flew out this morning to Milwaukee, WI for a week long adventure at Oshkosh (the biggest airshow around). He has been planning this trip since January so you can imagine how perky he was at that time this morning (think a 5 year old on Christmas morning). I, on the other hand, could barely open my eyes. Thankfully, he was smart enough to make coffee for us to take on the road! (He knows me so well!) Once we said our good-byes at the AirTran terminal at DIA I was on my way back home, head filled with what I wanted to accomplish while he was away. My list got interrupted when I saw the sun divide the clouds and hit the flatirons. I thought to myself, "It's going to be a good day." As it turned out, it was one of the best Saturdays I have had in a very long time.
My Mom and I had planned on having a girl's day for as long as Scott has been planning his trip to Oshkosh. It has been a long time since my Mom and I have spent a whole Saturday together. The sad part is, my Mom and I spent more quality time together when she lived in Iowa and came out here for weekends at a time to visit. Since she's moved to Colorado we both have had very different schedules that have made it hard for us to spend more then a couple of hours together at a time. Which totally defeats the purpose of her moving to Colorado. When she moved out here we had planned to see each other all the time, unfortunately that just hasn't happened yet. We are hoping that all changes in the near future. Anyways, we decided to make it happen today. Just us girls! A daughter with her mother.
We started the day with a trip to Boulder, our favorite place in Colorado (okay, next to Estes Park). For all the years my Mom and I spent vacationing in Colorado and the Boulder area we never made it to the Boulder's Farmers Market. Today, we changed that. We drove down Highway 36 and gazed at the beautiful sun kissed flatirons....a view everyone needs to see before they die. We bought some sweet corn (real peaches and cream sweet corn for those of you who are from Iowa) and tomatoes while wondering around the square block of the packed farmers market. Once we were done there we walked down Pearl Street to our favorite place to eat in Boulder, the Walnut Brewery. If those restaurant walls could talk! My Mom and I have had some of our best conversations there throughout the years. It was there that I told my Mom I wanted to go to CU Boulder for college back in the Fall of 2002! It was there that we celebrated my graduation for CU Boulder in 2006, it was there that we talked about our lives, dreams and goals. It's a place we don't get to visit very often, so it's even more special today then it was back then.
After our lunch my Mom and I went to Flatirons Mall for some serious shopping. We enjoyed shopping and walking around the mall just talking. We both found great buys and were every satisfied with our purchases. Since I was a kid, one of my favorite things to do with my Mom is shop. I don't care how old I get, I think I will always love shopping with my Mom. It must be a mother/daughter thing! Though the shopping was great and I found some amazing bargains, I think my favorite thing about our shopping trip was the conversions I had with my Mom. My Mom is a great listener and advice giver without telling me what to do. I know my Mom and I are different in ways, but we are also very similar in many other ways too. I appreciate my Mom's advice and know that it is (and always has been) coming from her heart and past experiences. I think I'm finally at the age that I realize my Mom does know more then me...it's only taken me 26 years to realize that! :-)
Finally, this evening my Mom and I went to church at Flatiron's Community Church, which just happened to be the perfect way to end our day. My best friend Stephanie and her two boys Jordan and Jackson joined us as well. Today's service was about community and connecting with others who are searching for the same purpose in life. Our Paster Jim asked those sitting before him to raise their hand if they had first come to Flatirons because a friend asked them to come join them. Stephanie, my Mom and I all raised our hands. You see, when I moved to Colorado I was invited to come to Flatrions by a friend, soon I asked Stephanie to come with me and finally my Mom was coming with us every Sunday she was in town. It was a great reminder that I am here (in Colorado) for a reason and that I am so lucky to have been given the people in my life. I am truly blessed!!!
Once my Mom and I gave each other our final hugs and said our I love you's to each other we drove our separate ways on HWY 287. As I was driving home I saw the most gorgeous sunset. The sun was setting behind the mountains and its rays were painting the sky orange, pink and yellow. It was as beautiful as the sunrise I saw when this day began. Tonight, as I sit here listening to music, drinking a glass of wine and reflecting on my day, I am happy, at peace, and satisfied with the world. Tomorrow is another day. A day I hope is almost as good as today.
Love,
Heather
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
I'm Back!!!
Hello Blog World!!! Yes, I know it has been a couple of months since I wrote last and I apologize for that! We have been trying to get settled here at the Greenfield residents and get back into our routine after months and months of planning a wedding, job searching, grad school and so now. I am finally able to report that our lives have become normal...well, as "normal" as they can be! It feels good to be back and I promise to do a much better job of keeping you all up to date in our ever changing and adventurous lives.
So yeah, Scott and I got MARRIED!!! :-) Our wedding was beautiful, perfect and better then we expected! All our planning and stressing and saving we did paid off! We are so blessed to have had so many wonderful friends and family members make the journey to Colorado to share our special day with us! Even though it has been almost 2 months ago, Scott and I talk about that day all the time!!! We have such great memories from the entire weekend...memories that will last us a life time! Memories that we can't wait to share with our children!
Now that the wedding (and honeymoon) is over we have returned to our lives here in Broomfield. I started a new job with H+L Architecture in Denver 2 weeks after our wedding. I have been there over a month and have loved every day so far! The company is wonderful, the work I am doing is very rewarding and I love working in Downtown Denver. Our office is 2 blocks away from Rockies Stadium and surrounded by great happy hour watering holes. I have even found a new coffee shop a block away that makes my morning walks from the bus station to work a little bit more enjoyable! :-) I am looking forward to my future with H+L and will keep you posted on my experiences!
Besides getting married and starting a new job in the past 6 weeks....our lives have been busy but great! June went by in a blink of an eye and to be honest I can't remember anything else that happened besides our honeymoon and starting my job, so we'll skip to July! The first weekend of the month Jane and Dan came to visit. Though they were only here the weekend, we spent a lot of quality time with them and really enjoyed their visit. Last weekend Scott and I went camping in Rocky Mountain National Park. We headed up to Estes Park on Saturday and enjoyed the day hiking different trails...sometimes in the rain! We set up camp that night and enjoyed a campfire, the wildlife, smores and sleeping in a tent. With our busy schedule it was the first time we had gone camping this year. We are planning on camping a couple more times before the season ends. This weekend we have yet another busy agenda: H+L Company Family picnic Friday evening, Boulder's Farmers Market on Saturday morning, The Nadas concert on Saturday night and Airshow stuff for Scott all day Sunday. I don't think Scott and I know what it's like to relax...or be bored...but I think we enjoy our lives better this way! We may be tired at the end of the day...but we have great memories when we close our eyes at night.
We are enjoying married life very much! Though it hasn't been too big of change for us, we still get excited to call each other "husband" and "wife". I am in the process of legally changing my last night....it might take me all summer to get it done! Wish me luck with that! Well, I guess that's an update on our lives right now. Check back soon for more Greenfield updates!
Love,
Heather & Scott Greenfield
So yeah, Scott and I got MARRIED!!! :-) Our wedding was beautiful, perfect and better then we expected! All our planning and stressing and saving we did paid off! We are so blessed to have had so many wonderful friends and family members make the journey to Colorado to share our special day with us! Even though it has been almost 2 months ago, Scott and I talk about that day all the time!!! We have such great memories from the entire weekend...memories that will last us a life time! Memories that we can't wait to share with our children!
Now that the wedding (and honeymoon) is over we have returned to our lives here in Broomfield. I started a new job with H+L Architecture in Denver 2 weeks after our wedding. I have been there over a month and have loved every day so far! The company is wonderful, the work I am doing is very rewarding and I love working in Downtown Denver. Our office is 2 blocks away from Rockies Stadium and surrounded by great happy hour watering holes. I have even found a new coffee shop a block away that makes my morning walks from the bus station to work a little bit more enjoyable! :-) I am looking forward to my future with H+L and will keep you posted on my experiences!
Besides getting married and starting a new job in the past 6 weeks....our lives have been busy but great! June went by in a blink of an eye and to be honest I can't remember anything else that happened besides our honeymoon and starting my job, so we'll skip to July! The first weekend of the month Jane and Dan came to visit. Though they were only here the weekend, we spent a lot of quality time with them and really enjoyed their visit. Last weekend Scott and I went camping in Rocky Mountain National Park. We headed up to Estes Park on Saturday and enjoyed the day hiking different trails...sometimes in the rain! We set up camp that night and enjoyed a campfire, the wildlife, smores and sleeping in a tent. With our busy schedule it was the first time we had gone camping this year. We are planning on camping a couple more times before the season ends. This weekend we have yet another busy agenda: H+L Company Family picnic Friday evening, Boulder's Farmers Market on Saturday morning, The Nadas concert on Saturday night and Airshow stuff for Scott all day Sunday. I don't think Scott and I know what it's like to relax...or be bored...but I think we enjoy our lives better this way! We may be tired at the end of the day...but we have great memories when we close our eyes at night.
We are enjoying married life very much! Though it hasn't been too big of change for us, we still get excited to call each other "husband" and "wife". I am in the process of legally changing my last night....it might take me all summer to get it done! Wish me luck with that! Well, I guess that's an update on our lives right now. Check back soon for more Greenfield updates!
Love,
Heather & Scott Greenfield
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