Summer Lovin'

Summer is here... thank goodness. Nothing suits this girl better then the hot sun on my skin, my amazing family and of course a cool drink in my hand... Here are a few fun photos we have taken the past few weekends! Enjoy! This is the time of my life...


Jim and I on the way to the GoodGuys Car Show!


Dad looking at a fancy old car! Love the orange... It matches our kitchen!


Mom and her girls standing in front of an old vet'...


CHERRY! This was my car... it was so hot. I would love to spend a Sunday afternoon driving around in this baby...



These guys were so cool...radical to the core. They are from Weld County Garage. Their cars were beasty and fast! Kindly they stopped to pose for Jami and I.

Yep! Random...

So....... this is what will happen when you have too much wine and rum.. our favorite weekend friend! :)


Sexy?! Probably not!


.....?


Serious?



Tough??




Not so much!

It has been a bit. . .

Life has been so busy... It truly is hard for me to believe that it is the middle of May! Where does all the time go? Well for a quick update- Guinness is doing much better! Healed up and is healthy. At the end of June, I will be half way done with grad school!!! (YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I am just a little excited about that. It is hard to believe this time next year I will have graduated! Everyone mark your calendars- B.I.G party! What a wild feeling it will be to graduate from grad school at Regis! Brian is doing well.. He got his branch- finally. The branch is due to open November of this year. It will be on 120th ave in Denver. He is really excited. He has worked so hard at getting this branch. He has been recongized by the head of retail banking for JP Morgan Chase (some fancy gal in New York City). He was the last in the nation in his current position to be hired to a new build. I am so proud of him. And at the same time during all of the stress at work- he is finishing his second class in the MBA program with me! My husband amazes me everyday! Things with the house are well. Life is good! I am looking forward to a fabulous LONG weekend with Brian, Jami and Dan! We have so much fun together and I just miss Jami so much. Though Denver is not that far away... I miss my best friend. I cherish each moment I get to spend with her and I just hate when we have to say 'goodbye'. Cherish the friendship you have- they make your rich in life! Love you Jami!

But here are a few updated photos since last month.

Happy 27th Birthday to US! Celebrating in style at the Rio! And yes the bigger the better on the sunglasses!

My cutie pie husband...

Jim and Dan..

In Denver visiting Jim! Eating at Yai Yai.. It was tasty!

I think everyone knows how much I love wine...

Cute! Do I hear wedding bells??? Oh wait... I think I do!

Poor baby Guinness. . .

Things have been a little rough in the Hopkins house lately. Guinness was next up to visit the hospital. He had to have surgery on his little (well lets rephrase that... NOT so little) paw on Tuesday. LONG story short, he had an old injury from his old family (bad family ;op) that they never took care of and it became super infected. There was a lot of scar tissue that needed to be removed as well as the infection. So to say the least, having an 80lb dog wander around the house with a cone is pretty funny. But on a serious side- since we do not have kids yet- Kingstin and Guinness are our kids and taking care of him was super important to us. It was so sad to see him all druged up. I think I got a "small" super small glimpse into parenthood and what is it like to have a sick baby. ..

Guinness and all of his cone head glory.....

The vet had to "jimmy rig" his cone so that he could not get to his paw. Oh yes... the baby boy took his bandage off with is cone head still on the day after his surgery! I know you wish your dog was as talented as mine!!!

Our handsome boy with his hurt paw....

Guinness and his favorite brother.... Kingstin- doing their favorite thing- EATING. Just an idea of how big Guinness really is compared to our little one. But he loves his Kingstin Behr! They are pretty darn cute together! ...Don't worry Jim- we still love Tobias. :)

.... A Kidney Stone...

So this week started off just fine.. working and school like always. However, early Wednesday morning I woke up in the middle of the night to a horrible upset stomach. I was able to fall back asleep, but when I woke up in the morning I still had the upset stomach and now I had terrible back pain. Nothing I had felt before. I drank some cub soda to settle my stomach and off to work I went. I felt okay... but exactly at noon, I was hit with major nausea and a light head. I ran into our bathroom thinking I was going to puke only to fall on to the ground to relieve my back pain. I had to go home. I was able to make it home to sleep on our couch, sort of. The moment Brian got home, I began to cry because my pain was so intense. That is when he said we needed to go to the ER. After getting checked in and looked over by the doctor and nurses, having an ultrasound- they found I had past a kidney stone into my bladder as well had ruptured a large cyst on my left ovary. The back pain was the kidney stone being past out of my kidney to my bladder. I was awful. I have been home since. What an ordeal... but thankful I am feeling much better today. I got off my pain meds- they were not sitting well with me at all. I was super dizzy and sick to my stomach from them. I have such an awesome husband who stayed home from work on Thursday to make sure I was okay. My folks have been great, they were at our side the whole time at the ER. And poor Jami called every moment she could. I know she hated being so far away but I could feel her support and prayers....

Fun Friday Nites. . .

Jami, Dan, Brian and I have SO much fun together... as you can see with the photos!
We went photo happy! But it was such a fun night and weekend!
We enjoyed Elliot's, Sushi and capped it off with a little Lucky Joe's!
Of course, and added a splash of wine, beer, whiskey and martini's. . .



Let the "oddness" begin!


Hmmm... Jim? Dan? What are you guys doing?


This is what sushi and lots of wine will do to you!


It must have been neat!?!


Dan being man handled.... like usual!

Cute one of Jim and Dan!!!

And a good night kiss! My favorite boy! He is just the best!

Birthday Parties!

It was Jenny & Jason's (sister in law & brother in law) birthday this past weekend. Jason turned the big 30! It was an 80's themed party, yet Brian and I are party poopers and did not dress up- (in my defense we had a busy morning with moving my brother and vet appointments for the boys :p ) everyone had a great time.

The Hopkins' women! Julie and Jenny looked great in

their outfits!

I have no idea! ;o)

Two of Brian's favorite people, his Dad and his brother Jason.

Julie's husband, Scott, probably took the cake with his

fabulous flock of seagulls look.

The Hubs and I!