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Every New Year’s Eve people make promises to change something about their lives and by the middle of the month many of these resolutions are forgotten. Maybe the willpower isn’t there or it could be that our goals are too lofty or too numerous. Whatever the reason, it’s not likely that this […]

New Year’s Eve has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward to the coming year. It’s a time to reflect on the changes we want (or need) to make and resolve to follow through on those changes. Did your New Year resolutions make our top ten list?
1. Spend […]

I have to say that I am very happy that the New Year celebration follows the Christmas holidays so closely. I would be very sad if once Christmas was over, the holiday season just ended…abruptly. I absolutely LOVE this time of year. It is so full of love and energy and hope. Everyone, christian or not, seems to be in a better mood and more apt to kindness to people they don’t know or even people that they have had a falling out with. This is the perfect time of year to fix those issues or to just move forward from here.

I don’t particularly have any New Year’s Eve plans at this moment and can’t really decide what we want to do. I do feel some pressure to get out there and celebrate with this wonderful town but at the same time I also want to just hang in and watch the ball drop with my loved ones. I was thinking of having some people over but what happens when at 12:01 I am ready to go to bed and our guests are just getting warmed up….decisions decisions:)

I wish you all a wonderful New Year, it’s time to let go of the hold and look ahead for the new. 2008 has the potential to be the best year yet!!!

The Federal Reserve endorsed new rules Tuesday that would give people taking out home mortgages new protections against shady lending practices.
The proposed rules, approved in a 5-0 vote by the board, are geared to providing safeguards to the riskiest “subprime” borrowers, already painfully stung by the housing and credit debacles. The proposal is expected to […]

From Peru to Malaysia, there are still fascinating places a couple can travel in style — even lavishly — on $100 or less a day.
The weak dollar has made travel abroad increasingly painful for most U.S. travelers, who tend to herd to a small number of European destinations: typically the United Kingdom, France, Italy and […]

I was writing my Christmas cards last night as we watched yet another year of “The Grinch” and I had this epiphany that ready or not Christmas is right around the corner. I started to stress myself out with thoughts of the shopping still to be done, the dinner menu for all the guests, the tree, the decorations, etc…and finally just had to take a moment and really focus on the importance of this holiday season. Yes, all those things are wonderful and yes, I do hope that I get to every single one of them. But for me, the best part of all is the family and friends and the fun to come.  That’s the part that I can’t wait for and I reminded myself that these are the reasons that I love this season so much.  I am truly blessed in my life and sometimes need to remind myself to slow down and recognize these gifts and realize my limitations and to be ok with it.

These condo hybrids allow professionals, entrepreneurs, artists and others to own a space that’s well-suited to serve both home and work needs. Developers are catching on.
With more and more people working at home at least part of the week, it’s perhaps not surprising that condo developers around the country are beginning to promote live-work units […]

A new type of housing is emerging: houses that look like your average single-family home but are sold as condos, sometimes with owners owning no more than the air between the walls.
 For a long time, the housing choice for the urban middle class has been clear: a condo in the city or a home in […]

If you can believe it, it is actually the 5th of December and the year of 2007 is almost over.  The mountain is finally open and it was actually some really good skiing last weekend.  9 runs is clearly not enough to support an entire town but it was good nonetheless. It’s really good if you can get on the slopes before 11 which is when the majortiy of the ski bums wake up around here, definitely a better chance to catch the fresh powder.

Christmas is on its way and the hoildays are upon us. I finally got a head start on the decorations in the house early this year so we’ll be able to enjoy them for the next couple weeks!! No tree yet but we’re working on it. We did a little snow shoeing in Medicine Bow and think we found our perfect tree for this year.  I need to say that I am morally against cutting down a perfectly good living thing for my own selfish enjoyment for 3 weeks and then discard this poor tree but apparenlty (from the park rangers point of view) the forests need to be thnned out around here so that there is room for all of them to grow and so that fires don’t wipe across the face of our forests.  So, I will believe them and agree to cutting one down this year but I will certainly do so with a sad heart.   

Stay tuned for some yummy Holiday recipes coming up during the next few weeks.

In a buyer’s market, curb appeal — yours and the neighborhood’s — becomes even more important.
Fresh paint, a new front door and colorful landscaping often are sure-fire ways to tease potential buyers over the threshold of a home for sale. But in some cases, no matter how perfect your pansies, nothing can draw their gaze […]