LONG OVERDUE :)

This is long overdue, but well i'm here now :)

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Last weekend I went to a Women's Retreat with ladies from church.

We stayed at one of the couple's from church house

it's in Evergreen, CO and it's awesome

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*shout out to Kim & Rhonda for being rich!

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We talked, ate, and played Taboo

Taboo Madness
This is my friend katie, who in an earlier post I said

she doesn't normally look like this, but

it seems to keep happening...hmm

clockwise with Katie:

Carrie, Becky, Erin

LONG LONG story, but t-shirts I made that

involve a haridresser names James Morrison and

me saying he was DEAD.

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Anyway, these shirts were really funny,

to us.

(liz, shellie, katie)

Cameron's nickname is Slamcake, so, I am slam's biotch
(name made up by our pastor, Hunter)

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Shellie's husband is a fireman.

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Katie just got stuck with punchface/punchy somehow???

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Also there is a quote by the indigo girls that i liked.

it was bethany's birthday, and her hubby sent

her flowers, TO THE RETREAT.

how cute is he, and how pretty are the flowers??

Erin, Bethany, and Renee

the 3 April birthdays

Odette (barista) making awesome lattes and coffee drinks

with Renee's kickass coffee maker

(after ian was born present from dave)

singing happy birthday???

the cakes,

yes the white one was featured in

rachael ray's april magazine!

view from back deck
some of the gals during lunch
Jess got her hair cut by Taylor
another backyard view


Erin J. cut my hair and it was like 1230am ahh!
trying to stay awake
looks okay, but probably need a
trim up at the real haircutters
the back was kinda boy-like?!?!?!




after the real haircutter cut
(super short in the back, but apparently erin kinda
isn't a professional, bless her heart)
(her hair is super cute, and she cuts it on her own though?!?)
(and my new purchase from forever 21)
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This is long overdue as well, but Genesis and Caleb
came to visit from Okla, on their way to Crested Butte
March 30-April 1

We went to Boulder Monday and
ate at Mountain Sun
* shout out to Lane

Left: seth and right caleb, brothers.

as you can tell, seth lives in boulder

he goes to law school there.

we got the 6-beer sampler

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it's a micro-brewery

and oh so tasty.

I still love the raspberry wheat.

seth, caleb, and genesis

menu

genesis on pearl street


this is how i found schnooze the other day.
i laughed out loud, then
proceeded to get my camera :)
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UPDATE ON WES:
the latest thing was sunday morning
he got a chest tube to drain the
extra fluid around his lungs.
they gave him so much fluid, that
it had nowhere else to go.
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that is the last thing i heard.
more updates later.

EGG-CITY

I was at Sam's Club today, getting ready to pull out

and I saw this guy pushing a cart full of eggs to his car

I said out loud (in my car)

HOLY CRAP THAT'S A LOT OF EGGS.

then i decided I needed to take a pic

but I had to do it sooooo discreetly so he didn't see me.

I think he did see me, but I tried to play it off.

Monday we went MTB (mountain biking)

and I had my first wreck. I am totally fine, but got scraped up.

Cameron, however endo'd and also hit his chest on his handlebars.

as i was trying to take a pic of his chest,

i was chasing him around the house

trying to take other pics of him.

this is with his new haircut (so cute isn't he?)

(but angry face b/c I was chasing him)

chest wound.
He was calling himself Harry Potter, and I said
"cam, that's on his head" and he said
"well then call me John Potter"
what?



my leg. but let me say, under the grease is a scratch.

mud, blood, and grease

my awesome beat up legs.

BOWLING ON EASTER.

I had to work Sunday, so I couldn't go to church.

But we had fellowship group that evening, and went

bowling. Although hardly anyone came:

me, cam, steve, LB, tim, and andy,

we still had a lot of fun!

cameron/slamcake

L to R: andy, tim, steve, LB, cameron

me. how lucky that an 11lb ball is green.

11 is my favorite number, and green is my fav color!

also, 11# is the perfect weight for me :)

me getting a strike (which i got like 5 that night!)

I don't know if you can tell but:

cam= 83

liz= 107

steve= 101

LB= hadn't finished

I totally beat TEAM COBRA! Even though they tried to play

it off that i kicked their butts!!!! WOO HOO!

The boys playing some retardo video game. They loved it.

Cam is sporting his "easter" shirt :)

PIG ROAST 3.15.08

our friends dad drove from SC with this in his truck.

It's not an above ground coffine thing, it's

a pig roaster. seriously.

the fire pit. it was a cool CO night

and this was perfect!

me & cam bundled up :)

Afterwards I did what I do at every party:

walked around and got peoples glass bottles/cans

to take home to recycle... i know i know,

i am a dork,

but a dork that wants to save the planet.

Now I am off to talk about all my life

problems at the psychologist.

And tomorrow JURY DUTY, BOO!

"my friend liz has head surgery" and other various things

!!!!!!!!!CAUTION!!!!!!!!!

if you are grossed out easily, skip the bloody pics (first 5 pics)

this was the first pic i came to that would suffice as a CAUTION pic, preceeding the gross

pics below... but it is in south carolina, when cam and i went in 2006,

it is called the Angel Tree, and it is very large!

"my friend liz had head surgery"

that is me.

I had a cyst removed from my head today. i didn't feel anything except the "bee sting" of the lidocaine and one sharp pain as she was cutting it out. But i did tell people i was getting my head sliced open. odette & sara were my moral support, seeing as cameron was in school and everone else was at work. Anyways it wasn't so bad, just really really bloody!!!!

there was a point in time i thought ody and i could go to starbucks after this. boy was i wrong. really wrong. so wrong the dr asked if i was gonna wear a hat. anyways, it looked like i was in a car wreck. so i came home and rinsed my hair before i went to work for some ethics and compliance crap. anyways.... long story... see the pics.

they didn't have to shave my hair off. it's held back with a bobby pin.

there are 3 sutures. but you can't really see anything. this was before the shower.

see my bloody hair??? not highlighted.

you can see the sutures better here.


after the shower. you can really see that i cannot shower well, but also you can distinctively see the sutures... they are the 3 black hair like things sticking up, tied in a knot.
i know i look bald in that spot, but she didn't pull but 3-4 hairs out.
and yes i know, i really didn't shower well.




more pics

oh yeah, and i forgot, i talked so much about how mad i was that i forgot my camera, that eventually, the doc asked if i wanted to take the cyst home. OF COURSE I DID!!!! i know it's soooo gross, but it's sitting on our counter in the kitchen (even more gross i know). it's the size of a large pea (or 2 small ones)... kinda oblong.




the camera case and kleenex box are a
reference of how small the
container is.

close up of cyst... see that tail.. i think that is what was holding

it into place in my head. gross huh?

with lid off. it's in a formaldehyde soln... so it won't deteriorate.

i can keep it forever.... nah probably not.

and to show how much of a nurse i am....

pics below of what i made for dinner.

pls don't barf.

sus gave me this recipe for chicken alfredo pizza... all homemade, even the crust!!!

with tomatoes, spinich, and chicken

a funny pic of schnooze

looking out the window

a before pic of cam (before his interview at DU)

after pic (still before the interview... it's friday)

(before the suit was altered)

handsom huh?????

you;d accept him into the phd program right?



fellowship group last night was bring food that is: white, pink, or red

laura beth and steve made these amazing treats (2 trays worth)

look at all the goodies, esp the cupcakes in the back

there was also this dip for apples that was:

cream cheese, brown sugar, and vanilla

it was delish!

left to right:

Heather, Katie (she is not weird looking usually, just in this pic), Whitney, and Laura Beth