Day Three!

Norton, KS--> Kansas City, KS 321 miles

Kansas City, KS--> St. Louis, MO 257 miles

This was our longest day. The sun rising in Norton was amazing!

During one of our rest stops I just happened to see a beautiful building!

And the other pic is our lunch break in Kansas city. KS or MO, not sure which cause we kept entering MO!

Not a great pic as I was driving and couldn't look through the lens, but this was crossing over the Missouri River! As I said this was our long drive, but we just had to stop and get the "hitchhikers" off of the car's grill!

Do you think there are certian requirements to live in this part of MO?!

Ahhh finally at our hotel! Such a beautiful place, and it met all our requirements, pets allowed, oversized parking, and close to the arch! Thanks to my parents for finding it for us!!

Day two!

Denver, Colorado to Norton, Kansas 273 miles

Since there was no leaving Colorado sign, we took a pic of the entering CO sign! And there was the chalk writing "Colorado Hell Yeah"!

Although most people choose to drive straight through KS, we stopped for the night to visit with boyfriends Aunt and Uncle. We had a great chicken dinner, and homemade pie, then for breckfest a homemade cassorole. I think we were a little too spoiled cause I've been expecting it every night!

After listening to the cardinals singing in the morning, we headed off!

Day One!!

Day one was simply a drive from Fort Collins to Denver. Good Bye green futon :( But don't worry, it went to a good home.

We visited with my boyfriends family having a great salmon dinner with his mom and sister, and then staying the night at his dads. We were supposed to be in Denver for two nights, but due to having way to much stuff to pack we were a day late :( The big puppy is Max and the little one is Lexi.

Here is Yertle enjoying his baking light at boyfriends dads house.

ART WORK

My first set of pillow cases! I even added some trim!

The last ATC's I made in CO and sent to family!!

The mothers day cards I made for my mom and my boyfriends mom.

My little sisters 20th birthday card!

AROUND

Some randomness from my life!

The first picture is two magnets that I made, the second is of my boyfriend and I as we were finishing running the Bolder Boulder!!

Can you tell we are biologists?!! The tulip was at the front door of a friends house, I saw it after a long bike ride, and had to take a picture of it!!

My pup likes to snuggle with us!!

Wine Label Removal

Over a year ago I started a wine of the month as a Christmas present for my boyfriend. I found so many of them to have interesting labels so I couldn't throw them out. After deciding the best way for me to remove them, I began!

I used my electric water pot to boil the water, then I poured it into my teapot so I could easily pour the boiling water into the bottles. I did two bottles at a time. I poured in the boiling water and let it sit for a minute, meanwhile I started another pot of boiling water.

Once the bottles had time to sit, I used an exacto knife to peal the label away. I think a straight razor blade would have worked better because the angle I was cutting at caused the more waxy labels to crease. Once the label was removed I poured the already boiling water into the teapot, and poured the water from the bottle into the boiler, to re-boil it. That way there is not much wasted water!

I put the labels in between some heavy books. Who said old text books would never be useful? I also cut off most of the neck labels and put the in my flower press.

In the end all but two labels came off!! Here are some of the labels! The Mad Dog is my favorite!

ART'S

Here are some of my random ATC's and cards.