Just an update on how handsome I look...

Oops... I Mohawked Dave's Hair....

Well, I decided to give Dave a haircut and forgot to put the guard on, so we had fun with it. I gave him this awesome mohawk and he kept his beard. Yay, I know your all jealous, but he his my wonderful husband:)




Givin' Ash kisses




Me and Asher:)



Dave and I in Cherry Creek... yay for Christmas lights up!

Leaf Rakin'

Today we helped out with our church and raked some yards. It was great weather to be outside working. Here are some pictures with our friends Brad and Gina. They were also in the Halloween pictures as Beetlejuice and Lydia.

I am just looking tough and strong (as always).

Gina used a great technique.

Dave was very proud of his huge pile!

Brad decided to just jump right in.

Dave and his balancing rake. I think he needs to join the circus.

Avalanche!!!

Go Avs!!! Well we finally made to a Colorado Avalanche game. It seems we have been able to see every other professional sports team in Denver, but never the Avs. Our friend Ty had tickets through his fathers work so we got club level seats for 20 bucks. It was great to have awesome seats and enjoy an Avalanche victory. Here are a couple of pics from the game. (Oh and I got my hair chopped off:))

Crazy Kitty...

Well Asher has been sooooo adorable. We cannot be happier with her. She is so playful, yet so loving. Here are a few pictures of her cuddling with us when we nap and also helping Dave study:)









This is cute. I had a ton of landry to fold and Asher was helping/playing. She kept jumping around the pile and stalking me when I was folding clothes.

Dave's a BIG baby!

No, literally, Dave was a baby for halloween. Yes, Depends/diaper and all. Here are some sweet pics of us. I was a high school wrestler with the shoes and everything!




Sarah and I at her PARTY!

I took Hobbes down! Look at my guns!!!!

A Greaser, Luigi, Baby Dave, and BeetleJuice

No, literally, Dave was a baby for halloween. Yes, Depends/diaper and all. Here are some sweet pics of him. I was a high school wrestler with the shoes and everything!

The Big 24!!

Gwen the Geezer turned 24 on October 30th. Here she is with Asher and some flowers I got her. We also went out to a fun family-style Italian restaurant with some of our friends for her birthday dinner.

Mom made this cute little kitty cake for my birthday!!! Just like when I was 5! I loved it:)

Uh-Oh!! We got a Kitty:)

Please welcome the newest edition to the Otten family: Asher. We got her at the Dumb Friends League this weekend and she is my early birthday present!!! Asher is 8 weeks old and is a grey and white shorthaired cat. She is so cute she only weighs two pounds! Asher is very loving but also frisky!! She really loves sitting out our shoulders and also loves Dave's beard. We had a hard time choosing a name but we decided on Asher, which means "blessed." We feel blessed to have her, plus she is kinda grey and ashy. We are very excited and love her very much!!!

As you can see, she is a great study partner.

Look at those beautiful green eyes!

Wahoooo, A New Car!!!!!

Here it is, our new car. We decided to get a new car before one of ours kicked the bucket. We got a 2005 Toyota Corolla. It is silver as you can see and is in great shape. It gets great gas mileage compared to our other cars and it is much zippier than the Jeep or Pathfinder. Oh and in the background is the Casa Del Sol fine apartment living.

In other news, Dave is still learning about the brain and spinal cord. It has been one of the toughest classes because of the amount of information and the amount of important details with the brain. Dave is also managing to find time for Frisbee on Wednesday nights with other med. school students as well as flag football on Saturday mornings.

I on the other hand am learning lots about physics and developmental psychology. Physics is hard because it is a completely new way of looking at things and problem solving things. It has been very time consuming to study but at least Dave has a study buddy now:) Psychology has been interesting so far. We have mostly just learned about the different learning theories out there. Our first paper is comparing and contrasting different theories of development. Work has been going well. They have been extremely flexible/accommodating with my school and work schedule so I could not ask much more from them. All in all, life has been good here at the Casa Del Sol. We are staying busy but enjoying ourselves as well.

Randoms Pics...

so, dave and i have been very lazy with posting things, but here are a few updates. i have started taking a few classes as pre-recquisites for physical therapy school (although i am not applying until the fall of '09 for the following year b/c then dave will have an idea about his residency). i am taking physics and psychology. i am very busy since work has stayed steady throughout the summer and into fall. dave is busy starting his second year of medical school and learning lots about neuro-anatomy....the BRAIN!!! ahhhhh. we are both busy but still managing some fun and of course ROCKIES! we went camping over labor day weekend and caught some yummy trout for dinner. i posted a picture of dave and the celestial tea factory in boulder. he loved the beard net:)

dave with a creepy 'stach... no he is not on cops or america's most wanted.

the sunset from out balcony.... colorado is beautiful!!!

so, the DNC was just here and it caused denver transportation hastles as well as a huge influx of cops into the area. we rode our bikes to a rockies game during the dnc and look at all the cops....it is not that great of a pic but you can see the full gear and fbi peeps.

i hope this blog helps to update you all on what we're up to.

Leadville Camping/Hiking a 14er

This weekend we went camping outside of Leadville, Colorado. We camped with our friends Ty, Tam, and Amanda. The first night we camped at Turquoise Lake, a beautiful mountain lake where we did some fishing and caught quite a few nice fish. The next day we went on a hike and camped at the base of Mount Massive, a 14er (it is more than 14,000 feet above sea-level). We got up early Sunday and hiked to the top of Mt. Massive. It was the first (and probably last) time Gwen and I had hiked a fourteener. Gwen got a bad case of altitude sickness and threw up at least seven times on the way up and down. As horrible as she felt she didn't quit, she was a real trooper and we pressed on for the four hour hike to the top and two and a half hour hike down. She even left a piece of herself (mostly a peach she had just eaten) at the top.

The view from the top of Mt. Massive

Gwen sick at the top

All of us at the top

New York, New York

Gwen and I recently made a trip to Connecticut and New York City to visit some family, see the city for the first time, and see Yankee Stadium before it closes at the end of this season. We enjoyed staying with Francie and Butch, Gwen's aunt and uncle, and Aunt Nancy and Uncle Gary accompanied us and were our tour guides in the city.

The reason for the trip.

At the Branford Yacht Club.

A jellyfish I snatched out of the water.

Gary and I being rebellious.

Gwen chowing hot dogs in Times Square.

Intro to Aerospace Medicine

I just got back from two weeks of "Air Force Camp" in San Antonio, Texas. Technically, it was the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, but it was definitely more like camp than school. We learned about some of the opportunities we will have as docs in the Air Force, but we also did a lot of fun stuff. We learned how to land without breaking your leg when you are parachuting, went to Sea World (where we got in for free because we are "heroes"), went tubing down a river, and went to Houston to tour NASA. Unfortunately, I was too honest on my medical eval and admitted that I had migraine headaches as a kid. Because of that, they wouldn't let me go in the hyperbaric chamber or do the centrifuge (where they spin you around to see how many G-forces you can take before you pass out). Overall it was a pretty good time, and certainly was much more enjoyable than last year's training was.

Parachute Simulator->

Before floating the river

Mock bullet to the shoulder