Vacation

Well, I'm headed out for the next few days so you're not going to see much here.

I'm hoping that Caley, Samantha and I will have a fantastic road trip, complete with a few great adventures.

Hope everyone has an amazing remaining week and weekend, see y'all next week.

Peace and blessin's



photo taken from Life Photo Archives

Shabby Apple Anyone?

Down and Out Chic is hosting a Shabby Apple giveaway. I love the dresses at Shabby Apple, they have a good blend of fun, chic, classy and sassy dresses.

Visit Down and Out Chic to enter into the giveaway to win one of these two dresses.

Colorado is Awesome

I forgot how much I love Colorado. This may come as a surprise to many of you who have heard me talk about this wonderful state, but my love for the area was confirmed yesterday.

There are so many things to do and I feel like everyone leads an active lifestyle. Denver is the No. 6 fittest city according to Forbes, and it's not very surprising.

I'm not saying it's perfect but It's pretty freaking amazing! If you're not from here you should come visit.

Here some highlights from this little slice of heaven:

You can literally walk a mile high.

Love Coors Field.
LoDo. So much to explore in the mountains. It is seriously beautiful.
***all photos taken from Denver.org photo library

Interleague Play

I love that bud Selig introduced interleague play. I dig having two leagues because you can have an NL team and a AL team and they rarely play each other (except on the rare chance that your two teams match up for an interleague series).

Last season I got a change to see David Price hit (if I remember correctly he did manage to get a single). I love it when the AL pitchers have to bat.

The dynamics dramatically change when you take away the DH, or you add one when the team typically plays without.

I'm looking forward to watch baseball this weekend.

Here are some articles debating the difference between the two leagues.

MLB.com article about the matchups this weekend.

NL vs. Al, which is better?

P.S. BYU softball had a great regular season, MWc Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year, Coach of the Year, MWC Champions, Sixth-consecutive regional appearance. They face Texas today...

Turns Out I've Been Doing it All Sorts of Wrong

I’m afraid that my throat may swell shut when I’m sleeping at night. That would be terrible. I woke up about six times last night because of this lovely little problem.

My allergies are the worst they have ever been. I’m planning on seeing a specialist about this next week but for the time being I thought I would search to see what at-home remedies would be helpful.

Turns out That I’ve been doing everything wrong.

I need to wash all of my bedding (not just sheets but pillows and blankets) once a week in water that is over 130 degrees. I also should not live in a carpeted home (apparently 90 percent of allergies in the home can be prevented by simply have a hard surface floor rather than carpet. Did I mention we don’t have a vacuum?

Clothes should not be left sitting around, thanks to my great love of clothing I don’t have the space and since we’ve had a new roommate I’ve had to limit my clothing space to just one closet (a travesty)! Needless to say, my clothes are everywhere.

The home needs to be cleaned incredibly well, but the allergy sufferer shouldn’t dust or vacuum, and shouldn’t be exposed to harsh cleaning chemicals, unless it’s the wax kind (didn’t even know there were wax cleaning products).

You should sleep with your window closed (mine is wide open with a giant fan blowing that air directly on me).

There are ridiculous amounts of information out there for allergy sufferers and it’s difficult to sift through all of the information to find anything valuable, but in all my searching I have learned that I’ve been living my life all wrong.

I’m moving again this weekend (which will surely bring the dust up from all over the place and cause my body to attack itself) so hopefully I’ll be able to make some changes.