The Power of Two...

To my wife I would like to say that which I have said many times before but never shared with anyone but you. Now that we are sharing with the world it is time to say that without you I would be lost in the wild. Our journey has been long but we have come to a place we have both created and call home. You are my world.

Crazy Giggles Abound

Our 5th anniversary weekend can universally be declared a smashing success! We went on two long bike/trike rides one of which was a fun historic ride with the Denver Bicycle Touring Club, a drive into the mountains, miniature golf, go-karting and more. Paul still has the sound of my crazy giggles ringing in his ears from chasing me around the go-kart track. Since we're all old enough to drive, I wouldn't have thought that go-karting would be that much fun, but it was such a blast -- I just could not stop laughing! The piece-de-resistance of the weekend was certainly my very own balloon tiara made by a "Balloon Artiste" on the streets of Boulder.

The Colorado Lifestyle

The Pookies have *finally* gotten off their respective behinds and started cycling -- 11 miles today, a great accomplishment for me! I almost said "biking," but since I ride a trike (WizWheelz TerraTrike Cruiser pictured at right) it would be blasphemy. In fact, I think trike enthusiasts (and there are tons of them!) would actually be offended if I said that I was biking on my trike. We'll never forget Al from Bikes at Vienna -- now that guy was an enthusiast! We still quote Al occasionally, "The more you ride, the faster you'll be, the more you'll want to ride, the faster you'll be..." Never doubt Al; I actually am getting a little faster. It helps that I've finally gotten the hang of the gears. Us Inerfelds are not known to be technically adept so it took a while for me to get it. In fact, my dad is in the market for a bike right now and he is so sure of his own technical ineptitude that he is thinking of getting one without any gears at all.

One of our goals in moving here to Colorado was to ditch our couch/computer potato lifestyle for the "Colorado Lifestyle." What, pray tell, is the Colorado Lifestyle? First, a disclaimer -- I'm still figuring it out so don't count on my as an expert on this. As far as I can tell, Coloradans are exemplified by being active and being outdoors. An example of this is Colorado being listed #8 on a list of states ranked by amount of physical exercise. It helps that we have very low humidity and about 300 days of sunshine per year so people actually want to be outside.

Cycling is a start to get us outside and moving...stay tuned while the Pookies figure out gardening and lawn care...

Happy Anniversary!

I, Pookie One, present this blog to Pookie Two on the occasion of our five year wedding anniversary. When we were first married five years ago, I asked you to create a website to document our wedding, our marriage, our life, etc. Since you were busy with other projects, the idea got shelved. It's now time to charge the paddles and bring it back to life!

Through these five years, there's been a lot of give and take as in any relationship. Amazing breakthroughs and also breakdowns caused by unmet expectations as in any relationship. But this is not just ANY relationship! This relationship has a secret ingredient. An ingredient so secret that we've hoarded it to ourselves all these years. Yes, you guessed it, it's POOKIE POWER!

Now that we're starting a new life and we've launched our extraordinary partnership, it's time to share POOKIE POWER with the world. What will that mean? Let's find out :)