Trevor, Lauren, and Brooklyn

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Superbowl Party

I love that the Super Bowl is an excuse to get together with good friends and eat good food. I only snapped a few pictures but we had a great time at our place this year. The food was plentiful and yummy. It was fun to hang out with friends and catch up while watching football in-between. It was also fun to see all the little ones running around and interacting together. I like the Manning's so I was glad the Giants won- especially after Gisele and her crazy antics. We love our friends-thanks everyone for coming!

Snow Weekend

Trevor mentioned on Thursday that it was supposed to snow, but we had no idea what we were in for. It started late that night and didn't let up until Saturday. We woke up to almost 2 feet of snow. You would have thought the world was ending (people were calling in Snowmageddon). People were frantically going to the store stocking up. It was pretty funny since snow is a regular occurrence in Colorado. Work was canceled for Trevor and for our good friends the McCabes and Gross' so we decided lunch and a movie was in order. We had chicken noodle soup and watched In Time while we all relaxed and enjoyed doing a whole lot of nothing. That night cabin fever got the best of us and we decided to drive around and enjoy the snow and house hunt at the same time.

The next day the roads dried because of the beautiful sun we always get here in CO and we headed to take B to play in the snow with her cousins. She wasn't loving it due to being exhausted but we still got some pictures of her in her snow suit. I'm thinking she is warm blooded like her mom (sorry Trev- no winter camping for this little girl!) After that we headed to watch our favorite littlest sister, Skippy, at one of her last bball games. It was a fun weekend and we enjoyed relaxing. The sad news is both B and I got a cold and have been stuck at home for the past few days. Nothing is worse that having your baby sick and not being able to do anything. We have had lots of steam room sessions in her bathroom the past few days- it's much easier on me than the nose syringe which is basically torture for both of us.

My philosophy- if it's gonna snow, snow lots! And I'm glad it did- it is beautiful outside!

It's like our family is walking North Face ad, pretty funny.

Liza is a snow bunny

Grandma and Brooklyn

The little girls

This is after Trevor shoveled twice!

Gotta love Colorado

Emi is about to POP!

My good friend Emi is about to have a little boy on Friday and I am beyond excited for her! A little bit jealous she gets to have an itty bitty baby (they grow up way too fast), but still so excited for her! Julie and I were excited to plan her shower and got the ball rolling months ago. We found out the two of us together equals lots and lots of ideas which equals lots of fun day dates with the kids putting those idea into action. It was a "POP" theme and we had everything from Tootsie Pops to Ring Pops to popsicles to old-fashioned soda to homemade pop tarts. We filled the house with balloons and hid two plastic babies in them. Everyone ran around the house popping them trying to find the babies and win the prize, it was lots of fun. Emi got lots of fun things and we all had a blast celebrating her little baby boy (B's future husband). Thanks for having a baby Emi so we could all celebrate. I can't wait to meet your little guy, he will be beyond adorable!

The adorable invitation Emily designed

Me, Emi, Julie

The Spread

Old fashioned Soda POP

For the party favors we made cowboy cookie mix in mason jars are made them look like bottles.

Emi & Me

Julie & Emi

She is one cute pregnant lady and got the cutest gifts!

Bethany & Me

The candy portion of the spread

Gift table

Balloons all over the floor (luckily Julie is smart and found the bike pump. About 10 balloons in we were both about to pass out!)

Thanks to Leslie, Emily, and Bethany for helping out too!

We are so happy for you Emi!

Mountain Man

SO... Trevor has been a busy bee lately. Turns out he doesn't know how to function without physical activity. He works all day, then either rocks climbs or plays basketball for a little while each night, and then hikes some insanely tall mountain in terrible conditions on the weekend. He's crazy. I've said it before and I'll say it again, 50 mph winds in the freezing cold while trudging through snow is NOT my idea of a good time. But, this boys loves to takes the worst mother nature can give him, and for that (and many other reasons) I admire him. This is Mt. Bierstadt. It was one of the many climbs they are doing in the next two months in preparation for their Denali training week. I'm thinking B and I need to take a little mommy-daughter trip while he is gone :). Good thing we are headed to Costa Rica in 3 weeks so he can defrost.

Friday, January 13, 2012

When Mom's Away...

We were heading to Trevor's basketball game (for the team of little boys he coaches) and I asked him to get Brooklyn dressed while I got ready. This is what I came downstairs and saw. We removed the du rag before we left the house. Those two crack me up when they are together.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Well worth the calories...

Yesterday I was making fajitas (cuz we didn't have enough in Mexico :) for Trevor's family for Sunday dinner. I forgot I needed a dessert as well and started searching through Pinterest to find something that had peanut butter and chocolate. The only two things I need to make me happy. I found a recipe for homemade Reese's bars. Sold. I made them and Trevor actually said "these taste just like the real thing!" It made way more than we needed so I made sure to take care of that today. Whoops!

Here is the recipe:

Peanut Butter Bars
1 c. butter
1 c peanut butter
2 c graham cracker crumbs
2 c powdered sugar

1 1/2 c semi-sweet choco chips
4 Tbsp peanut butter

Directions: Melt butter & 1 c peanut butter. Add graham cracker crumbs and powdered sugar. Mix until well blended. Press into ungreased 9"x 13" pan. Melt choco chips with 4 Tbsp peanut butter (either on stovetop or microwave) and spread on top of graham cracker mixture. Refridgerate for at least 1 hour.

http://morganmoore.typepad.com/one_more_moore/2008/08/makin-stuff.html

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Cancun, Mexico

Christmas came and went, and we left for Mexico! It was nice to leave the cold weather and head to the beach for a week of fun with Trevor's family!

The week consisted of: early morning runs on the beach, long days at the pool, boogie boarding, playing in the sand (B), floating in a Disney Princess inner tube (B), reading Goodbye Jimmy Choo by the pool (well worth the read), way too much Diet Coke, daily dinners consisting of fajitas, fajitas, and more fajitas, late nights of Mexican Trains, naps by the pool, watching Bowl Games on the sling box, and mostly just having fun hanging out together. The weather was perfect and the scenery wasn't too bad either :)

It was blast and Brooklyn couldn't have been a better traveler. She loved the pool and sand, once she got used to it of course, and could have floated around for hours. She LOVES texture so the sand was heaven for her. I love that she is getting to experience all of these things so young. I think it was stimulation overload because she slept and napped like it was going out of style. I will admit that traveling with a wee-one and their all of their luggage (and there is A LOT of it) is very stressful at times but I was glad we still got have a relaxing trip in the sun. It was so much fun to play with her in the water and watch her take it all in.

The only real hiccup was Brooklyn's mega-meltdown on the way home. The flight was delayed so her sleeping was all out of whack and she was awake for close to 6 hours. She has never been up for longer than 4, so you can only imagine how tired the poor girl was. She finally reached her breaking point and screamed for 5 or 10 minutes. It felt like 5 hours. She finally fell asleep, more like passed out, and we, and everyone else on the plane, let out a sigh of relief. The poor thing did all she could to last the flight but had just had enough and I don't blame her. She is such a sweetheart for putting up with being on the go for a week! For all you new moms out there, that moment you imagine where your child is screaming and everyone is staring at you and you don't know what to do and nothing will calm them down really is as bad as you think it will be. Trust me. Minus that, she was champ and we are oh so grateful for it! We can't get enough of that little girl and her smile. Thanks for a great trip Mom and Dad Tripp!