November

November in Denver...Awesome. The weather is beautiful, and although I mentioned it before, there's actually a fall here. November kept us busy especially with John's first semester finishing up. 1/6th of the way done. It doesn't seem so bad right? Our visitor for November was cousin Sarah and her awesome new hubisand Rob. Our learning curve did not increase a lot from the Whitesides' visit, and we once again failed to be the tour guides we should have been...but the good news is, we're getting better. Our December post will hopefully show that we're starting to get on the inside of things a little bit.

Sarah and Rob stayed a weekend with us and while John was (unfortunately) pounding out a final term paper, we went exploring Downtown. It was the first time I was actually able to get around there without too much interruption. (We still marched with Occupy for a little while by accident.) It was a wonderful weekend with some of our favorite people!!
Mile High

Part of my lack-o'-blogging is my lack-o'-picture taking. For example...this is all I took from Thanksgiving. We drove out Wednesday night and actually had Thanksgiving with the Keisels this year...with no pictures. It was so nice to be back in Utah and so great to be with such good family and with such good food! It also provided me with my first (and last) Black Friday shopping experience. Since stores were starting their deals at 10pm, we decided to try it out for size. Carol, John and I were dropped off at the doors of Wal-mart where we walked to the back of the store, panicked, and walked back out. Apparently other branches had it a lot more under control, but the one we visited had people scalping DVD's, teenagers racing to different departments of the store and shoulder to shoulder traffic that could not in any way be honoring the fire code. I am all about a good story to tell though, and I'm glad to have a good one to tell.

Up in Logan, it was good to see family and friends and we had a great time being part a Cache Valley for a weekend.

Driving home through Logan Canyon, this guy was eating some roadkill off the side of the road. When we turned around to get a picture he flew up to this tree. So cool even though the picture is way zoomed in...

Clouds hovering above Bear Lake.

A good sign, for both of us, was as we drove through Downtown Denver coming home, we both looked at each other and said that we had sort of missed Denver. And that was the greatest sign of all, that coming home is something we relate to Denver now.