sorry for the delay in blogging... i didn't forget. if you know me AT ALL you can probably guess what happened. yes, my computer crashed again- the won't turn on, smoke literally coming out of it kind of crash. So with the new computer, I'm still working on setting up the wireless- yet another of my chronic problems with computers- surprise, surprise, it still isn't working.

Labor Day weekend was fun! Mom came out to Denver- her flight got in while I was in class on Saturday so when I went to pick her up in Parker, she, Jennifer, and Andrew threw me a surprise birthday party. Here's my cake. MMMMM.

Sunday afternoon, mom, Craig, and I drove up Mt. Evans near Idaho Springs. It's one of the fourteeners (14,000 ft. elevation). We drove almost to the top on the highest paved road in North America and then hiked about 200 yards to the top where it was snowing! 70 something on the ground wind chill of 20 at the top. and I was in shorts. We had tons of fun though- it's beautiful!

And here are the goats that were soliciting food in the road and a few other pretty pictures...

Mom and I hung out all day on Monday too and then we got up really early to take her to the airport and it was time for me to go back to work. Speaking of work, I was named the assistant librarian for the school today- it's not an officail title, so no raise or anything, but I have to figure out a way to organize everything in the library- it's by title now and that is dumb. Nothing else really exciting going on- I have to work til 4 and then be in class from 4- 8:30 on my birthday- also dumb. AND it's statistics- gross, but it only meets 3 times after tomorrow. Time to take clothes out of the laundry so here's a picture of the laundry/ trash chute room to leave you with...