Bringing Splash Home

On Saturday morning May 1st, Matt and I went and picked up our dog, whom we named Splash.

Right after we got home, I left to go to Jessica's bridal shower at my Mom's house. That went well, with a good turn out and good food (that I did not make). Matt stayed at home to bond with Splash.

Jess and Mike, and Mom and Andrea came to visit Splash that afternoon. He had a very good first day and a medium night.

Tigers vs Twins at Comerica

On Sunday April 25th Matt flew to Calgary for the week. On Tuesday I went to Detroit to visit G&G for a few days. On Wednesday night I went to the Tigers vs Twins baseball game at Comerica Park with Chris. I was super excited, I love the Tigers!

The Tigers ended up coming back to win - exciting! They had a few good innings (and a few bad ones). Go Tigers!

Tommy's Spring Fling + Crawfish

On Friday, we decided to cancel/reschedule Jessica's shower because Larkspur got a ton of snow. So instead of going to the shower, I went with Matt to Tommy's Spring Fling up in Denver, where the ski shop has their semi annual sale.

We got a ton of good stuff and some burgers for "lunch" (it was 10am).

Later we went to the Shell Crawfish Boil at Cherry Creek Park. It was good, I ate way too many crawfish, they were sooo yummy. I am pretty sure I came home and took a nice nap after that.

Picking out a Puppy

Matt and I had been talking about getting a dog for awhile now, and he wanted to wait until it got a little warmer outside. We finally found a litter at the Mile High Lab Rescue here in Denver. Unfortunetly the only girl was taken, but they did have a boy that we could adopt. So Matt and I drove up to the foster home to meet the 6 puppies and pick one out. The girl was taken, and one other boy, so we had 4 puppies to choose from (they all had homes, just were not individually picked out yet). We picked on the puppy on the left in this picture.

He was very cute (as were they all, it was kinda like eeny meeny miney moe) to pick one out. We came home and started cleaning the house "puppy proofing" and making lists of what we needed to buy at the store. Puppy comes home May 1st!

Avalanche Game

Matt and I, Aubrey and Brandon went to the Avalanche playoff game 3 vs the San Jose Sharks at the Pepsi Center. We met for dinner at Brauns before hand and then went to the game. It was pretty full and loud.

This was a one-sided game in favor of the Sharks, but they did not score. Craig Anderson the Avs goalie made 50 saves and we went into OT a 0-0 tie. 50 some odd seconds into the overtime period, the sharks scored on their own goalie, for a 1-0 win for the Avs.

It was an exciting game. We are glad we got to go, as the Avs lost the next two home games and were eliminated from the playoffs.

Lowe's Shopping Spree

If you don't owe stock in Lowe's, maybe you should.

Today, Matt and I went to the Lowe's up off Arapahoe Road and went on a shopping spree. We got some fertilizer for the grass, along with a spreader, and then...

We met up with Jake and Andrea and he let us use his employee discount (thanks Jake) and then we went bowling. Andrea boweled a 55 the first game and a 111 the second.

We came home and when we opened the mower, the front tire was broken, so we were very sad. So we went to the Lowe's in Parker to return it and get a new one. This was an expensive return trip, as Matt let me buy a new washer and dryer! They are Whirlpool. We told the lady that was helping us that we would take our knowledge and go back to the one up by Jake, and she said she would just give us the discount. That was nice of her! These are new machines, so they are not in stock yet, so they will be delivered the first of May.

I am looking forward to having a dryer that works, and hopefully the washer is more water efficient, as now we will have to turn on our sprinklers to let Matt use all his new lawn toys.

Private Flight to Pinedale - Matt

Matt has been hearing about this plane that goes to the field since he started, but the one time tried some big bosses got seniority and no go. Needless to say he was excited to go this Tuesday!

I showed up at 5:20 AM and the pilots asked us if we were all there. We said yes so they checked our ID's and walked out to the plane. Ten minutes later and we were in the air! It was obviously dark out, but it was a King Air 200.
Not huge, but comfortable for 8 and our two pilots.
We landed in Pinedale, WY at 7AM walked off the plane and a guy from the field had cars warmed up waiting. Pilots asked us what time we wanted to leave and we were off. Mike and I went South about a half hour to meet with a few folks at BP to share learnings. I was nervous they weren't going to show since didn't call back the day before, but it turned out useful. Who would have thought 70 in Denver and Snowing in Pinedale?
We had a full day and after driving through the snow we walked back to our plane near the Pinedale hangers and took off just after 3:30PM.
The view driving over the field was good, these are the well pads that we visited in Jonah - BP. The BLM has since restricted how much land is used for pads down to 5-10% so we have much fewer locations and more condensed.
The best part was really the view over Denver. The city looked pretty cool and here is our office next to Cherry Creek Reservoir.
Back in Denver we landed before 5PM and we walked through the enormous and overly clean hanger to our cars. The short ten minute drive home and all a success. I'll have to try this again:)
If only flag football game at 9:40PM (Yeah a long day) went as well. 58-0...