Weekend in Frisco

One of the blessings of living so close to Frisco is that we can come up for the weekend and enjoy all of the great deals during the "in-between" season (or mud season, as they call it here). Yesterday we had a wonderful 2 for 1 dinner at a fancy restaurant, went on a hike, and benefited from awesome deals on some pretty adorable little gender neutral baby clothes. I have to admit that it was fun to see all of the cute baby clothes...until I quickly realized how much money were were about to drop on clothes the baby won't actually wear for very long (at least not the newborn stuff). At one point, when were deciding whether or not to buy a little baby outfit I said, "This is how much I would spend on a shirt for myself!" So in the end we were disciplined in our purchases, and still got some fun and cute stuff.

It was also great to celebrate Megan today for the first time as a 'mom to be.' I had sneakily purchased a card and little gift this week. This morning when I went down to get everything, my brother Joe texted Megan to tell her happy Mother's Day. Apparently Megan replied to him, "Thanks...you get points because Jeremy hasn't even said anything to me today." Ha! I guess he beat me to the draw. After the gift opening we called both of our moms and then we had a nice brunch at the Butterhorn (everyone's favorite local bfast stop on Main Street). Then we benefited from yet another great deal, a handmade Aspen wood shelf that we will use as a changing table. Fun story: yesterday we went into this really cool shop of handcrafted furniture (most of which was significantly out of our price range). Megan saw a beautiful display shelf with a $79 price tag. She sheepishly asked the sales clerk if the price tag was a mistake, and the woman said, "No, we just want to get rid of it. There is nothing wrong with it but we really just don't like it and it doesn't fit with the rest of the furniture we sell here." We came home and thought about it, measured the space in the back of the Prius, decided it would fit and that we would take a look at it again this morning. So after brunch this morning we went back to the store and there was a different sales clerk -- and no price tag on the shelf. Megan started to explain the conversation we had had with the other clerk yesterday and the man seemed a little bit irritated. He said, "well, yesterday that price tag was just sitting on this shelf and it wasn't meant to be the sales price, but because Brandi (the previous clerk) told you it was, we decided we'd let you have it for that if you came back." Score!! So we purchased a beautiful hand made piece of furniture for a couple hundred dollars less than it should have cost.

After the fun purchase we decided to take a walk along Lake Dillon. I'm attaching some pictures of the beautiful scenery and my beautiful wife.