Vacation is over...boo!

After having last week off, I am kind of dreading going back to work tomorrow..UGH! I already know that it is going to be a crazy week due to some of the work e-mails that I have received. Oh well...I shouldn't complain as I am lucky to have a job that I really like!

This past week flew by!!!! On Monday, we had a meeting with our case manager and then we met Andy's brother, Matt, downtown at the Rock Bottom Brewery for lunch. Our meeting was a good one! We went through the paperwork that we'll need for when we get a placement as well as signed off officially on our homestudy. YEAH! Once the meeting was over, we headed to the lightrail and took it downtown to meet Matt. I couldn't believe how many people were downtown walking along the 16th St. Mall!!! It was really busy but I guess everyone was out over their lunch hour. We really enjoyed meeting up with Matt! We sat outside on the patio and had fun people watching while we chatted. After lunch, Matt came back with us to our house. We all drove up to Westminster to meet their Aunt Barbara and cousin Teresa, for dinner! It was great to see both of them!!!

The rest of the week wasn't nearly as busy as Monday but it was still a great week! Andy was actually off on the 4th so we went to the Cherry Creek Art Festival which was really crowded but fun. Our plan was to go somewhere and watch fireworks that night but Andy was super tired since he had worked Friday night and only had a couple of hours of sleep before we went to the Art Festival. We still were able to watch fireworks from our house. Our neighbors set off some that shook our house and all the pieces fell onto our deck. Lovely! I took the dogs out and one of the ones they shot off came right at me and exploded about 10 feet above me. Ali freaked out! Poor thing was shaking and didn't know what to do...she kept trying to hide from the sounds but couldn't find anywhere in the house that made her feel "safe". I ended up sitting on the floor and holding her for quite awhile. Once the neighbors were done we were able to watch some fireworks that were going off downtown out our windows. We didn't go outside to watch as there was a ton of smoke floating by our house as well as Ali refused to go outside. We had a great view from our windows so it worked out pretty well.

Today, we were gone all day running errands. A quick shopping trip turned into being gone for about 5 hours. We went shopping for a new bed and found one that I absolutely love. In fact, I was ready to take a nap on it at the store!!!! We also bought some tennis rackets as there are some courts about 6 blocks from out house. Woo hoo! We can't wait to go play...hopefully tomorrow night. I may even sigh up to take lessons through the Parks Dept. Andy is polishing up his skills so he can challenge Laura to a game. I told him he better work hard as she's pretty good. =) This evening some other neighbors started setting off some more fireworks and once again we had a freaked out Ali. I really hope the fireworks are done for the year!!!