FREEDOM!! :)

WE DID IT!!! We finally put everything aside and got out into the wilderness! Our first weekend free of chores and anything to do with wedding planning (we love planning our wedding but get so exhausted :).  We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, but came home with some very sore legs, bottoms, and feet!

Saturday and Sunday I did the usual....Farmers market, cleaning, and grocery shopping.  But Bruce and I were able to enjoy some delicious dinners together at night before he went to work.

Monday when Bruce woke up we headed to Pueblo.  We went to Sam's Club and picked up a few things for the week.  Stopped at Pet Co to get Pudge groomed.  We usually like to get Pudge groomed locally (as we would much rather give our money to anything local..) But when we called to get a an appointment she was booked until August 16th.  YIKES, guess that's why we usually should book our next appointment at the end of  our appointments. BUT with all that said we went to Pet Co and were pleasantly surprised!!! We had a VERY nice woman and she was so kind to Pudge! And they had an adorable and very affordable "treat bar" and that was fun! Then we stopped at Dress Barn, just to look....BUT of course I tried on and found the perfect rehearsal dinner dress (OK OK we did one wedding related activity this weekend). Then we went and had a delicious lunch at Chipotle..YUM! Bruce got his usual fav, steak fajita burrito, and I got mine, chicken fajita salad bowl.  We ended the day with packing for our adventure and watching TV in bed.

We were at the trail by 8:30....it was the BEST day to go.  It had a 30% chance of rain (in CO that means maybe a sprinkle but not a down pour) which made for some wonderful clouds rolling through to give us some much needed  shade from the sun. The hike was hard, to say the least, but it felt great! Bruce had tp push me the last half mile of the 3 miles, but I am glad he did! It was pretty much all up hill (i know i know, u r thinking 'yah right' but it was!) and that made for a more difficult return if you can believe it.  Sure it's hard to hike up and up and up but when u are exhausted and ready to head back going down such steep trails proves to be much harder.  Our legs were DEAD and having to stop yourself from free falling was HARD! I only biffed it twice! :) Pudge, who usually HAS TO lead, slowed down on the way back and chose to walk in the middle of us. We headed home showered, and headed out for pizza.  We decided we deserved it! We ate came home and shut down the house and all three of us passed out almost immediately!

All in all it was a WONDERFUL weekend and a much needed break from life!

We will leave you with some photos! Hope you all had a GREAT weekend!

Love,
Bruce, Nichole, and Pudge xoxo