Alice’s Birthday Party

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!On Sunday we threw a birthday party for our new 7 year old!  Alice and I had talked last year about throwing a supergirl party but between having a two month old baby and a 45 year old invalid (Scott had shoulder surgery 2 days after her birthday with the knee surgery to follow 2 months later) there ended up being no...

A little French in the morning

On Sunday morning we headed to Old Town Fort Collins for a breakfast out.  We had wanted to go to Snooze but even getting there by 8:45 wasn’t good enough — there was already going to be a 20 minute wait.  We decided to cut our loses and try out La Creperie restaurant across the street.  It turned out to be our lucky day! We all had the most delicious breakfasts, perfect coffees & a wonderful...

Alice’s room

I came across this little girl’s room in a Pottery Barn Kids catalog and was instantly inspired by the scrapbook papered wall and decided this was just what Alice’s room needed! In fact, I was so inspired by this room that I started working on Alice’s room that afternoon!  It took several hours to get all the papers cut, configured and hung but in the end I was very happy with the results.  The only...

Emerald Isle

We had our yearly family trip to Emerald Isle, NC a few weeks ago.  The 18 of us have definitely outgrown my parents’ house so now they also rent a house on the sound.  We beach, we eat Big Oak Drive-in BBQ and shrimp burgers, we sail, we walk, we read and we do a whole lot of hanging out.  This year cousin Morgan was old enough that the four year age gap wasn’t as noticeable so he was over his...

I am back — finally!

I’ve been away much, much longer than I ever intended.  I intended to get going on the new blog just after Christmas.  Funny how having a baby while simultaneously finishing your basement can screw up palns like that.  Throw in a “fabulous” day of skiing for the husband when the baby is just three weeks old (resulting in both ACL replacement & shoulder surgery) and you can get even more bogged...