A little French in the morning

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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...

Charlie’s Birthday Party

Charlie’s first birthday was on December 30th.  Originally I had planned to have his party on that date but, after throwing a huge cocktail party earlier in the month and hosting Christmas with out of town family, by the time we got close to Charlie’s birthday, I was partied out for the month. Instead we had it this past Sunday and I ended up very happy with my stress avoidance decision.  Everything...

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...