Snapshots of Real Life

Here are my guilty pleasures of the summer:

Iced coffee…so delicious! Pour over ice and then add a little bit of whipped cream on top. Mmmmmm.  :-)

Cheap popsicles…Ryley and I are addicted!

Downton Abbey. Oh, how I love thee. I powered through all 16 episodes. Even Ryan loved it.

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And just regular pleasures (not-so-guilty):

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood… “I really like Mr. Rogers,” Ryley says. “He asks lots of questions.”

Concerts in the park… Just hours before the movie theater shootings just a couple miles away, we spent a pleasant Colorado evening in a park, dancing to big-band music with hundreds of other Aurora residents. And we felt completely safe.

 

A kids’ festival at the Aurora Civic Center, where President Obama ended up speaking at the victims’ memorial, just a week later.

 

And apparently, relaxing foot baths in the privacy of a messy room…

That’s real life right there!

Also, wonderful guitar progress! She loves it, and we are so glad. :-)

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A couple of weeks ago we went to the Olympics Training Center in Colorado Springs.

Ryan and I are huge Olympics fans, so we watched some of the qualifying events for swimming and gymnastics about a month ago. We knew there was a training center in Colorado Springs, but we had no idea it allowed visitors. Apparently they have 140,000 visitors per year. And what better time to go than now??? Plus, it’s FREE. :-)

I love this….

We went on an awesome tour of the facility.

If we had come earlier in the day, we might have seen the men’s gymnastics team practicing, but unfortunately for us, they had the afternoon off.

We tried not to be too disappointed that we didn’t see many athletes….We just saw some boxers. But it was pretty cool to see where the athletes train and live. Apolo Anton Ohno lived there for eight years. Plus, the excitement in the air was pretty thick!

Yay for the Olympics! May the games begin.