On Friday night we went to Karla's work party. Since she never goes into the office, it was fun to meet a few new people. Saturday was spending some time in the foothills. There's a trail at Red Rocks we like to run, so with Matt's shoulder, he walks it while Karla runs it. It was a good day because Karla ran it faster than she's ever run it before!
On Mother's Day, we went to Snooze with the newest mother we know. There's always a long line but since it's right downstairs, we put our name in, go back home, and tell Naomi and Ryan when to show up. It was fun and delicious.
Happy Mother's Day to our amazing Moms!!
Matt's shoulder had been bothering him for a good year, so he finally had surgery on it in early April. The surgery went well although his shoulder was more damaged than the doctor originally thought. His labrum was completely torn off, so the doctor reattached it, and there was some cartilage damage that hadn't shown up in the MRI so the doctor cleaned that up too.
Since surgery, Matt's been in a sling and our activities have been limited. Matt has learned to do a lot more things right-handed since surgery was on his left, dominant hand. Right after surgery I had to help him with every part of getting ready for work, but now it's just tying his shoes. Progress!
We've spent the weekends seeing friends, going for walks (the one activity Matt can do), and watching baseball. Recently it's been nice enough to do some trail running at Red Rocks. Well, I trail run and Matt walks. He's been a real trooper about walking while I run!
We're both ready for his sling to come off (hopefully this week) and to get the okay to do some light hiking. The weather is warming up and we want to be outside!
Knowing that surgery was around the corner for Matt, we made one more trip to the mountains for skiing. Ken, never one to pass up an opportunity to ski, flew up to join us. We headed out early and, after the routine stop at Blue Moon Bakery for breakfast, made our way to Breckenridge. We're not sure if it was because spring break was over for most people or because there wasn't fresh powder or because it was Rockies home opener weekend, but there were no lines for any of the lifts. We skied as many runs by 11:30am than we usually do by 1:30pm. It was really fun! We skied all of Breck - starting at blacks on peak 10 to a blueish black on peak 6 and all the peaks in between. Great last day of skiing for the season!!
The next morning we were up early and hit the Bright Angel Trail - our destination was Plateau Point, a 6 mile hike out to a point where we could look down to the bottom of the canyon and the Colorado River. Hiking the canyon is like the reverse 14er - hiking 4000 feet down and then back up. It was a very pretty hike, although the view didn't change much until we got to the Point - which seeing the river at the bottom was pretty cool. A nice hike up 4000 feet and we were ready to hit the car back to Phoenix to spend the rest of the trip with Lowell and Judy.
Matt's parent's came in town on Friday evening, driving all day from Ft. Worth. Nancy had been fighting a sinus infection, so she elected to stay in Denver on saturday while the other 3 went up skiing in Breckenridge. A stop at blue moon bakery on the way and we were off to the slopes. The base was pretty nice, and the weather wasn't too bad - a little chilly and overcast, but decent conditions. We skied straight across the resort, from peak 10 to peak 6 and back. Around 1:30 we were exhausted, and after a few beers at the bar we headed back, avoiding traffic on the way home.
Sunday all 4 of us along with Greg and Barb Taylor, friends from Texas who recently moved to the Denver area, drove up to RMNP to go snowshoeing. Greg was pretty skeptical when we drove in to Estes Park and there was only an inch of snow on the ground. Karla and I assured him that where we were going there would be plenty of snow. We had no idea how much we were right. There was probably a foot and a half of fresh snow, and the weather was great. We first snowshoed around Bear Lake to get everyone used to walking with large shoes on your shoes. After that we made it up to Emerald Lake, the second of 3 lakes up to Emerald Lake. Everyone had a blast, and after stopping at a pub for lunch and ice cream in town, we headed back to Denver. A few games of carbles back home finished off the nice weekend.
