So glad to have a good Mexican restaurant nearby. I went here with Daileen Loving for lunch and the food was good and company, even better. Nick and Andrew have been friends since their freshman year when they were low on the ladder for tennis...they worked their way up and up until a few weeks ago, they were both playing. Andrew decided not to play this year as he is hoping to go into golf management and has to get his handicap down. Anyways, his mom and I have been friends since then also and it was nice to be able to just sit down and chat for a while outside of a tennis match.
This building is where the first Highlands Ranch library was. Nick and I spent many hours in this place that was transformed into restaurant space (Dewey's) when the new, big library was built up near SAfeway. Now, it is Salsa Brava and I have to think it will be here to stay for a while. When I think of how life was when NIck and I would go every week for story hour, I can hardly imagine it has been 16 plus years. We would listen to story hour (and Chris joined us once he was born) and then head out to the non-fiction book area and get all the dinosaur books he could find. Many hours were spent browsing through those books and he knew every single kind of dino that ever walked the earth. Between that and trucks (ucks) and coloring, those were his early passions. It has been interesting and somewhat sad to think back on this while I write this post. So much has changed and gone on in Highlands Ranch...huge amount of buildings, grocery stores that you don't have to drive across County Line Road to get to and just a busier pace of life for us and the community. I will always reflect with tears and happy memories of those days spent with my little Nicky T and shortly after, Christopher and Zachary.
Always good to see Pam when she comes out. In the past, she brought her sweet cocker spaniel, Corkie, with her and the dogs would play, hangout, eat cheese while we caught up. This past year, Corkie died at the age of 8 (waaaay too young) but Pam was out to surprise her mom. Shari, Pam and I met up in Morrison and ate at Tony Rigatoni's on the back patio and then took a walk along the river and took some photos. It was fun to learn a new way to take photos of water and hopefully, I captured it (still haven't uploaded all of them so I'll have to do that soon.) Pam gave me a gift certificate to Liquid Spa which is by our house just for being a friend and helping others...so not necessary and I was a bit overwhelmed by the kindness of that and very appreciated. Can't wait to use it...thinking a really nice pedicure would be perfect.
I was at Tattered Cover yesterday when I noticed this issue of Scrapbooks Etc... was in. I was pretty sure this layout was in the October issue, but wasn't sure until I turned to PAGE 14 and saw it for myself. This was one of my favorite layouts I ever did when I submitted it and was so glad when it was picked up. It is one I will treasure forever and love that I got paid for something I love so much.
