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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Thanksgiving.

Eric and I have done a sort of orphan Thanksgiving for all of our friends wherever we have been the last 6 years.  We always do the Turkey, stuffing, gravy, and other staples.  Everyone just brings something that makes their Thanksgiving special or just comes as they are.  Either way it has always been a fun and special day for us.  Well, this year, the company had Thanksgiving off, so we offered to do a big one.  It turned out to be about 50 people, which was....a bit of an undertaking for a new mommy of a 4-month-old.  As long as I was uber organized, I knew it would be pretty easy.  Timing is everything for events like this.  It actually was great for me to have a project on which to focus my energies.  Of course there is Soph, but it keeps mommies a little bit sane to work on something else for a minute.  We were lucky enough to have the dining room at the Residence Inn in Downtown Denver and there entire serving area made available to us.  Three 20lb turkeys, 4 giant roasting pans of stuffing, 2 whole Honey Baked Hams, 3 giant roasting pans of Green Bean Casserole, 8 packages of cresent rolls, 8 pans of mashed potatoes from Honey Baked, and then a whole mess of delicious stuff that other people brought to share.  It was truly a feast.  I just went to Hobby Lobby and got some decorations and napkins,  used 3 kitchens, and Dreamworks got us real dishes to really make it feel like home.  Eric, as always, did an awesome job on the turkeys.  I think everyone had a great time and left feeling like stuffed turkeys.  Gobble Gobble!  I have to say what I was thankful for was walking into the kitchen to find Benjamin and Mara washing dishes.  They cranked through those babies like you wouldn't believe.  I would have been there all night if it wasn't for them.  There were a lot of really helpful people, but those two cracked me up...just sleeves rolled up and in it to win it.

Monday, November 22, 2010

The North Pole, Colorado


We went to The North Pole on the day off with The Milahey Family!   It was super fun, super cold, and totally got us in the Christmas spirit.  This place is awesome.  It's so worth the hour and a half drive from Denver.  We had a baby, a 7-yr-old, a 10-yr-old, and 3 grown adults who could all appreciate the magic of this place.  It was a quaint little village of shops and rides and lights and don't forget Santa's house.  Ho, ho, ho!  It also helped that we watched the movie Prancer on the way there:)  This is a great Christmas movie, though it is not the most popular.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Play Time

Just last week she was in her saucer and couldn't reach the toys without a pillow behind her.  Now she can pull her torso forward and reach all the toys.  She can really sit and play for 15 minutes or so in the seat.  

Friday, November 19, 2010

Solids!!

Sophie had her first solids tonight.  We introduced her to some rice cereal at her bedtime feeding.  Sophie, this is rice cereal. Rice cereal, meet Sophie.  The first bite was spit directly out, naturally.  (Could have had a bit to do with the fact that I taped with one hand and fed her with the other:)  However, interspersing it in with the bottle helped her to actually swallow some.  The doctor told us that a baby who had been previously sleeping through the night and began waking the past few days was ready for some solids at night.  Here we go!

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Denver Week 1

There are elephants living upstairs.  It has been so loud here.  Between trains at night, our upstairs neighbors up at 5  and the normal craziness that change every wk brings, Sophie hasn't been sleeping thru the night here. 

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Oklahoma City.

Sophie picks up Daddy at the theatre in Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma City was pretty uneventful.  We stayed at the Sheraton Downtown. The people who worked there were super nice.  Room service is not exactly their forte, but they had an awesome gym.  The Sixers were staying here while we were.  There is a really nice area called Bricktown, just a few blocks away that was great for Sophie and I to walk around.  They had a nice little riverwalk and lots of restaurants.  The theatre is kind of far, so Soph and I would pick up Eric, Jorie , and Brandon/Jason each night.  I would say this is an overall safe downtown area though.  I felt completely at ease walking around with Sophie.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

We're Outta Here, Austin




There may have been a situation or a time when I would have really enjoyed Austin, but this was not it.   Our hotel was really gross.  There was a used towel in the bathroom and an opened 40ounce ForLoco in the fridge.  This was a crash landing from the Four Seasons.  I was hitting another wall, so Soph and I split for the wknd and headed to my parents for a break.   Before we left we hit a famous brunch spot (Magnolia Cafe...yummy gingerbread pancakes!) and did some vintage shopping.  We met Eric, feeling very refreshed and rested, in Oklahoma City.