What I've Learned About Denver Thus Far...

1.  All grocery stores excluding Whole Foods are slightly ghetto. 
2.  At any given moment of any weekday, the city is filled with people enjoying baseball games, bicycle rides, etc.  Apparently no one has to work here.
3.  It can be 80 degrees one afternoon and snow the next morning.  It will also snow in late April and into early May.  This will occur multiple times.
4.  No one here cares about pro basketball.  This means that even during playoffs there will be empty seats and almost-free tickets available.
5.  The Denver Nuggets' mascot is amazing!  Seriously, my favorite part of the games.
6.  There are marijuana dispensaries all over the place. 
7. Denver is the first American city to have a bike share program.  We haven't tried it yet, but it looks promising!
8. The roads here are awful.  The temperate fluctuation and the fact that construction can really only be accomplished in the summer does not make driving very fun.
9. We have heard one place that sells Blue Bell in the city.  We will be visiting said place very soon!
10. I like Denver, but I need warmer weather!

Jacob and I celebrated our one-month anniversary last week.  He got me these lovely flowers to celebrate!

I promise tons of good recipes and a tour of our apartment soon!

What We've Been Up To...

We have been busy settling into life as newlyweds and loving every minute of it. Last weekend we met some of my college friends and their spouses at this restaurant.

It was not quite tex-mex, but it was good and their homemade tortillas were delicious. We had a great time hanging out with Amy, David, Rachel, Adam, and Jamie. However, I forgot to take a picture!

On Monday evening, we went to a Denver Nuggets playoff game. They played the Utah Jazz, and unfortunately lost. It was a really close game though, and really fun to watch!

Here is Jacob making a scary face and me showing off my new short hair-do. I cut over six inches off!

This week, I also made this delicious homemade pizza. The recipe for the half/wheat pizza dough I made is here. The recipe for the tomato sauce is Giada's spicy tomato sauce from her book Everyday Italian. They were delicous together. We will definitely be making this again!

Our photographer got us all of the digital negatives of our photos. Here is a sample of one below. I will try and post them all on Snapfish and soon as I finish downloading all 3000+ of them!

That's all folks! Happy Earth Day everyone!

Howdy from Denver!

Now that I live a couple of states away from the majority of my friends and family, I am going to try and be a much better blogger...

March 27, 2010 Jacob and I got married!

We honeymoon'ed in Barbados!

I moved to Denver.

I started exploring my new city and we went to a Denver nuggets game.

Now I am looking for a j-o-b. If you know anyone looking for an attorney (licensed in Texas) to practice in the Denver area, please let me know.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Hello 2010!

Obviously, I am super duper behind on blog posts. So, what better way to make it up than a 2009 Year in Review as we begin 2010...

January

My brother got married and I got a new sister-in-law.

Jacob caught the garter. Foreshadowing? However, my little sister, Bekah, also caught the bouquet and I definitely beat her to the punch;)

February -March

I really didn't do anything too exciting. Just worked on finishing my last semester of school...ever!

April

I attended my last law prom.

May

Mary Kate graduated from Mississippi State University.

I took my last finals ever and successfully graduated from SMU law school! I looked like Chef Boyardee.

I joined the blogging world.

June

I celebrated my 26th birthday and began seriously studying for the Texas Bar.

July

Jacob and I got engaged on July 4, 2009!

I took the Texas Bar.

August

I went on a Bar trip to Costa Rica with law school friends.

I went to Acapulco, Mexico to see Jacob's sister, Liz, get married.

Jacob moved to Denver, Colorado. I moved home.

September

Jacob began his new job with the Treasury in Denver. I made my first trip out to Denver. I was so excited to eat brunch at Snooze with my college roommate, Rachel.

Jacob made his first trip home for Jamie's wedding at the Arboretum in Dallas. It was beautiful and fabulous!

October

Jacob came in town and we took our engagement photos in Fort Worth!

I spent a lot of time doing document review and went to Denver, Colorado for Halloween. We celebrated with Dale, Jamie, and Patrick.

November

Jacob met me in San Antonio to see our friends Steve and Christina get married. She was gorgeous.

I found out that I passed the Texas Bar and I got sworn in as an attorney!

I spent Thanksgiving with Jacob at Liz's house in Sugarland.

December

I planned a last minute trip to Denver to see Jacob for his 29th birthday! It snowed the entire time I was there.

I spent Christmas Eve with Jacob's family in Fort Worth. It snowed. It iced. We braved the icy roads to spend Christmas morning with my family in Dallas.

2009 has been a whirlwind year and I am so excited for 2010! A new marriage and a new city to call home.

Engaged

Jacob and I got engaged on July 4th!

He did a great job of planning everything. First, he tricked me into going to where we first met...a baseball field where we played on the same softball team during 1L Sports Spectacular.

Then, he popped the question. Of course, I said yes! (or rather nodded rather vigorously through tears).

Then, he surprised me with a limo and roses! We went to my apartment and drank some celebratory champagne with his sister, Liz, and his brother-in-law, Diego. Then we got all dressed up to go out to dinner, just the two of us. Or, so I thought...

...he surprised me with my family! The limo had snuck home to get them while we got dressed for dinner. Then we all got in the limo and headed to dinner...

...and at Hibiscus, his family surprised us, too!

After our very delicious dinner, we went to Bodega Bar and celebrated some more.

All in all, it was a wonderful night and definitely a 4th of July that I will never forget. We are so excited to start our new journey together! :) Special kudos to all of Jacob's spies and helpers, you were so sneaky!!

Warning...

I thought I would share this because it literally made me laugh out loud. Just a little pearl of wisdom from my "Honest Tea" bottle cap...

Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

Jen's Favorite Things

If you know me, then you know I pretty much adore anything that is wholesome and even corny in nature. Of course, this extends to all things Disney, made-for-TV teenybopper romantic comedies, and musicals. I love the movie "Sound of Music." (If you haven't seen it, run, do not walk, to you nearest video store or video pirating site and watch it. You will not be sorry). This was the movie of choice to watch on long car trips in my family.

In the movie, Julie Andrews is a governess who sings a song called "My Favorite Things" to the children during a bad thunderstorm.

Well, last night and this morning, the weather was absolutely horrendous here (e.g. my parent's chimney got struck by lightning and part of it fell in our pool)! In honor of thunderstorms and yucky weather, here is my own (obviously quite lovely) version to be sung to the tune of "My Favorite Things."

Jen's Fav Things

Flowers on headbands and a corny joke

DVRs, Republicans and cane-sugar Coke

Monograms on just about anything

These are a few of my favorite things

Burnt-orange longhorns and Jackie-O pearls

Audrey and Hitchcock and dancing with my girls
Sunshine with rain and the rainbows it brings

These are a few of my favorite things

Clean-shaven boys with cute, dimpled smiles

Color-coordination and organized, tabbed files

Windows rolled down as Taylor Swift sings

These are a few of my favorite things

When the test lurks

When the water murks

When I'm feeling sad

I simply remember my favorite things

And then I don't feel so bad!