OUR HOLIDAY CARD.

designing, writing and sending holiday cards is one of my most anticipated activities of the year. i grabbed these when minted was having a 20% off sale.... in early october! b thought i was crazy, but it's not often you see that good of a discount.

there is our top 10 of the year. i thought that was a cute idea - and a quick recap for those family or friends who don't follow the blog and get the daily tmi of what we are up to :)

happy christmas or hanukkah to you blog friends!

CHATFIELD PUMPKIN PATCH.

this weekend we planned to drive out to the denver botanic gardens at chatfield to check out their pumpkin festival. in nashville, we had gone to the same farm every year with a group of people. after a rare rainy day on saturday, we set off on sunday to get pumpkins and eat festival food - both goals that we achieved.

parking lot nightmare below a beautiful mountain scape. it actually was not that bad - they had a sheriff directing highway traffic and people showing you exactly where to park.

some of the approximately 1,000 people at the festival behind me. check out my gallon of lemonade!

the perfect pumpkin - still on the vine!

thank you to the random man waiting with two full carts of pumpkins for snapping this photo. we then carried those monsters the two miles back to the car. i counted that as my bride arms workout for the day.

even if it doesn't feel like fall here {it's going to be 80 degrees today!}, at least our porch decked out for the season.

st. paddy's day.

you all: st. patrick's day is a big deal in denver. we heard the stories about the two-hour parade and planned to spend saturday downtown.

did you know it is st. paddy's day, not st. patty's? i guess patty is short for patricia, which makes sense, but i had always said st. patty's. the more you know, i guess. 

yay my denver friend anna lisa! did i already tell this story? we met in our apartment laundromat. she moved out already, thanks to her keen ability to spot a sketchy apartment complex within the 30-day guarantee window. smart cookie.

did you all know taxis had credit card machines?? isn't that so 2012? 

someone was brave enough to do a carbomb, the official drink of irish people. don't worry mrs. baker, he only had one.

our view of the parade. it was more than two hours long! we only saw about 10 minutes of it, but what we did see was pretty weird. i have no clue how it lasted two hours.

i should clarify weird. we came down to the street near the end, so it was a lot of scantily clad women riding in the back of trucks. i am still not sure what they were promoting. 

hooray, green beer!

it was a long day, but thanks to perfect weather {i wore shorts!} and good friends, it was my favorite in our new city so far. 

currently craving: christmas cards.

{letterpress {!} from sycamore street press}

{via minted, which i've heard very good things about}

{my fav via rifle paper co}

i am a sucker for holiday cards. b's doing a card swap with his internet friends {no really}, so he finally agreed to let me get some printed! i've designed my own for this year's card, but i would totally be down for rifle paper co. to draw out our likeness. it's never too early to plan for christmas 2012, right?

wish listed: heart me sweater

eeep! i love this sweater so much. added to my wish list. questionable if it's work appro, but reminds me of this one that's been making the internet rounds.

happy 4th!

we're running around here baking, decorating and getting ready to have a few people over.

i'll leave you with my favorite "go usa!" song. clearly a classic: