Another couple of events last week: Tabletop in Loveland and Longmont, as well as a ribbon cutting and FRIDAY Fest for the Greeley Chamber. It’s always fun to get pics of the three AOTYs while we can…sadly Pam last her job a week ago and we don’t know how many more times the three of us will have the chance to hang out together.
Look who has a new dog! The lucky couple welcomed Hashbrown to his new home in Portland after a long journey from Texas. Early reports are that he doesn’t really like or understand the rain. So he prefers to be carried when they take him for a walk.
Jumped on the bandwagon of that new app that changes your picture into a cartoon! I look so much younger.
Look at this little guy that touched down on Monday in Platteville! It was on the ground for about 5-10 minutes. Thankfully no one was injured and their was minimal property damage. Springtime in Colorado!
Looks like someone is fully embracing summer vacation! She’s a busy gal this summer, between 3 Aims classes, working weekends at the nail salon, and dating a boy!
Nathanael made the decision to move out this spring. He will be living closer to UNC and will be roommates again with his older brother. His girlfriend was so sweet over the weekend helping him clean, pack and get moved into his new digs. Always bittersweet when a child decides to leave the family home. Thankful he has this chance to try living on his own and also thankful he will be just across town if he needs anything.
The FADP group at Merrill that I am apart of landed on the front page of the Wall Street Journal last week. Leadership had an emergency call later that day to tamp down everyone’s panic at the article. Still on the PAUSE that began on July 31, 2020. On the positive side, here’s a nice Facebook ad for TableTop this month!
Love being back in person for our Chamber Leads group! Misty is doing an incredible job of recruiting new members to attend each week...we had 38 this week from a low of like 8 in the middle of the COVID on Zoom.
Summer has arrived and with it a beautiful day on Memorial Day to gather with friends and family. We made the pilgrimage across the street to spend the day at Welch’s with the gang. Glad mom and the kids and their girls could join the fun! We even got some use out of the old Nerf guns.
Look at our family’s newest college student! Sis enrolled at Aims Community College this summer, in order to take advantage of their free tuition for in district students. She is taking two in person and one online course, in order to speed up her graduation date to May 2022, a full year early. She will have a busy summer between her classes and working weekends at the nail salon.
The tradition continued over the Memorial Day weekend, with the annual gathering at my friend Paul’s house. It’s been neat to mark the passage of time around this event, as our kids have grown up, graduated and moved onto other adventures. Now there are grandkids (Paul and Hope and 2!!!) and a new generation of kids that attend. Memorial Day also marks the beginning of the “Summer Poster” pictures. Here are the first two! Finished poster will be unveiled after Labor Day and will be displayed proudly on the mantle for the following year. The second picture is Sister with her “Senior Friends” at their graduation party of the weekend.
We seem to be supporting Matt Estrin’s businesses quite a bit this spring. To celebrate Jamie and Kristie’s April birthdays, we rented a few lanes and were joined by Greg and Vicky for some axe throwing shenanigans! Some of us even hit a bullseye. Others missed their wife and didn’t.
I was able to co-host Greeley’s newest networking event last night, the Greeley Mob Mixer! We had no idea if 10 people or 100 people would show up, and were pleased we had a crowd of about 40 gather at BRIX. Lots of friends and familiar faces who were thrilled to be gathering in person again. Until the Greeley Chamber starts up After Hours again, we are the only game in town. We even game away silly door prizes like a Men in Black VCR tape and a bat signed by the 4 co-hosts. Next even June 30 at the Hatchet House.
Our little “bubble” has been hanging out quite a bit since our friends moved in across the street. We gather every Friday night for a little F.A.C. To mix things up a little bit, we designed a whisky tasting event with about 25 different selections. We were each given a sheet with the description of the bottle, then we tasted it and tried to guess which one it was. I tied for first with 3 right. We obviously aren’t as smart as we think we are.
I had the privilege last week of being invited on a VIP tour of the new student center on the Aims Community College campus. We have been watching it get built over the past year, and are excited to see the completed building in December. Thank you to my friend and ED of the Aims CC Foundation Kelly for the invite. I’m glad my friend Ben could join me.
