Spring in Colorado...

Well, it's Spring in Colorado... per my previous requests, you now understand that "spring" in Colorado doesn't mean that it's safe to put away your parka... nope, you can, however, bust out the flip-flops :) I was hoping we were done with snow, but we woke up to 4 inches yesterday morning after it began as rain Sunday night. So who the heck knows! I am loving that everything is turning green and flowers and trees are blooming though, it's so refreshing. I have all my windows/doors open this afternoon and the kitties are tied up out back... ha!



Spring also brings Colorado Rockies Baseball... and my husband is their number 1 fan, and I won't lie, I absolutely love it myself, so we got a share of seasons tickets this year, meaning we got 2 tickets to 7 games! Woot! Our first of the 7 was on Easter Sunday and it was a blast- Check out the view from our seats: Section 145, Row 2, Seats 1 & 2:




Spring means the beginning of another wedding season, too, we don't have a ton of them this year, but we did have one this past weekend and the couple were beautiful and the wedding was perfect, just amazing. Here they are cutting the cake:



And here we are at the wedding, I was laughing... I look like a goob. :)



So that's about it for now, I know I'm behind on posting, but for now this'll have to cut it! I'd like to wish the happiest of birthdays to 3 of my gals: Ally, Emilia and Sara whose birthdays are the 26th, 28th and 29th of April! Congratulations on another trip around the sun, girls. heh heh...

xo
alliwilli

This is fun!

So, my friend showed me this website that allows you to create really low-grade animated "movies"... and it can be HILARIOUS. Here's the one I made of a typical conversation en la casa de Willi... :)

Spring?! Could it be?

Well, we've had some funky weather since mid-February... it was warm and springy in the winter and wintery and cold in the early spring months. So what does the rest of April and May hold in the cards for us? I'll be happy to get a bit of moisture here and there, but hopefully in the form of April Showers, not Winter Storm Warnings! Ha! I'm ready for spring, that's for sure... longer days, more warm sunshine, BBQ'ing on the back deck, yard work, flowers, even mowing the lawn! Yep. So here's to hoping we're really entering Spring now.

So I haven't updated my blog in a while, but I haven't really had much to say. Not too much of interest going on. The biggest excitement in my life recently was going to Valley Forge, PA for work last week and turning it into a boondoggle to see my old college roomie, one of my bestests, and her hubby (who we drove just as bonkers at St. Mary's as we do now). She's nearly 8 months pregnant and looks freaking fabulous. They're having a baby girl so we spent some time pow-wowing Irish girl names, which was a blast. It was SO good to see them. I always get really sad when I have to leave, even when I only see them for a day or two. Even though at this point I know how to get on I-95 from their house, it's a bit confusing and when they first moved to their house she started leading me to the highway and then pulling over and would wave as I passed and honked in my rental car, which is usually a giant monstrosity... so it's fun to watch her laugh as I blow the horn on my boat and pass by onto the highway, but you can see the same pain in her face that I feel in my gut as we start laughing hysterically about my car. I spend the rest of my drive north to PHL with a smile on my face, but tears in my eyes. It's just hard to live so far away! But alas, we always have a truly good laugh together.

Here's a picture of my rental car this time... Avis did not let me down, I was able to give my girl a good laugh as sailing past her onto 95 North on Friday morning...



Upon arriving home on Friday, the hubs and I had a double-header softball game and our team won both! Yahoo! Then Saturday we helped a friend move some 3 1/2 tons of river rock in her back yard, and then Sunday was Easter, which we spent at Coors Field cheering on the Rockies in the cold rain! And though they lost to the stupid Phillies (which, by the way, Phillies' fans SUCK... BOOOO!!! ;)), it was still a WONDERFUL way to spend the holiday.

Oh, and my mum sent me these gorgeous candles to spruce up our kitchen table for the Spring! Aren't they fabulous?! Love them!!!



Well, I really do lead a boring life and don't have much else to share... I'll post if my brain musters up some good stuff. :)

Uncalled for...

I just read another person's blog and the "comments" associated with her latest post, and was appalled that someone would be so mean and hateful towards someone they don't know at all. Now, I'm not going to pretend that this blog is full of meaningful heavy information, no, it's not, it's fluff about the day-in-day-out life of a stay at home mom... but she's not pretending either... she's just putting some fun posts out there for those of us who have reached the end of the internet to read on occasion.

If you don't like it... don't read it!

I said my piece and don't want to get caught up in the swirl of the nasty comments now going back and forth on that page, but I will say this... my initial comment was this:

"My mother always taught me that if I don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all."

To which this anonymous commenter stated "Your mom is wrong."

If I WERE to respond, this is what I would say to that...

"Is my mom really all that wrong? I agree that when you have something that’s not-nice to say, but that adds value, I can see the need to share it, but usually that’s to someone who you are close with, to offer guidance, support, or a bit of constructive criticism… but I don’t see what value a spout-off like this could add to anyone’s life, and it appears to simply be hurtful."

So I maintain, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all"... particularly in the blogging world. There are SO many blogs out there. Some are for politics, some are for helpful hints on how to do x, y, and z, and some are like mine, and this other gal's, and are just for fun... a way to journal our lives and our thoughts and really aren't up for criticism. Please don't criticize my blog. I'm just a goofball with some thoughts.

Blog on, people. :)

I never was any good at diaries...

Okay, so as stated above, I never said I was any good at journaling or blogging, so for those of you who actually check this and hope for updates and continue to see that annoying bobble-head of me walking the March for Babies... sorry... :) But anyways, I'm going to try to get all caught up in one quick blog-attack!

I'll start with the CRAZY weather that Colorado is experiencing these last few weeks... we had a really mild winter, February crept up into the 60s and even 70s a few times, which is absurd, and then in March when all our baby tulips and other various flowers started to poke their way up into the world, BAM, snow storm... that's right, last Thursday we got nearly TWO FEET of snow... ??!!! Um, excuse me? So first of all, I did as I was told and covered up my flowers and made our front yard look like the only thing it was missing was a beater car on blocks...



Then the snow hit, as promised, and it was CRAZY... here's a snapshot of the front of our house AFTER the hubs and I had already shoveled the drive and walkway once! Doh! That'll teach you to wait till Mother Nature is DONE. Though, we did have some fun romping in the snow, well, I was shoveling, and he came up from behind and shoved me and then buried me... bbbrrrrrr... I got him back though. :) So front of the house and shot of the snow on and around the hot-tub out back.




So, that was Thursday and Friday, then over the weekend things warmed up and we actually had a couple of 50-60 degree days!?! Craziness. But it was nice because it meant that the roads were driveable all weekend. Phew!

Last week I won tickets from my awesome Realtor, Ben, for this charity event raising money for the Junior League of Denver, that was called Chocolate Afternoon Delight, and boy was it! Ryan opted out, and he was glad he did, all the favors were really girlie, so I took my gal pal Carmine with me. She's about 4 months pregnant and was all for anything with Chocolate in the title. HA! Anyways, it was fabulous. It was held at the Builders’ Appliance Center, which had amazing kitchens on display so we both had to just keep shielding our eyes lest we bring home ideas to our husbands. For the first hour or so we all just mingled around drooling over the amazing kitchens, and they had endless free wine and champagne for sipping as we browsed around. They eventually got started and Chef Keegan Gerhard did a cooking demo of 4 courses and we got to taste each as he made them… Here's Chef Keegan doin' his thang...



So the first course was just a simple avocado and mixed green salad with a very simple “dressing” that was just EVOO, lime juice, fresh grinded pepper and salt, apparently he’s VERY big on the quality of ingredients, that’s what he kept stating over and over…



Then the 2nd course was a seared sea scallop, the biggest scallop I’ve ever seen and it was cooked SO tenderly it just melted in our mouths… and that was over a green apple coleslaw (like, instead of the cabbage/lettuce mixture, he used the usual coleslaw dressing but on very thinly sliced (like match-sticks) granny smith apples) with a raspberry/vanilla sauce drizzled on the side… omg…



Then the 3rd course was a vanilla rum roasted pineapple granita over coconut ice-cream, I think… I mean, it doesn’t matter, it was SO fricken good, I licked the martini glass it was served in… heh…



And then the final course was what he’s famous for, his pastries/desserts… and this was what he calls the D=MC3 “D = MC-cubed”… or Dessert = Milk Chocolate Three Ways (and then some)… and it was basically tart crust made to look like a rectangular cookie, topped with chocolate ganache that was HUGE, it was like a SLAB of ganache… and then on top of that there were like 3 scoops of white, milk, and dark chocolate… and then there was a side of raspberry compote/granita? And a raspberry reduction drizzled on the side. OMGGGG. Retardulous.



Oh, and I forgot… between the pineapple deliciousness and the D=MC3 deliciousness, he served us a ridiculous pomegranate martini… OMG. So that was AMAZING. Carmine and I had a really nice time, and even though it was good rich food, it was served in teeny tiny portions, so that was perfect (except the D=MC3, that felt GIANT to me). So here we are very happy, and apparently a bit stunned, from the deliciousness that had just occurred... :)



So that's about all the EXCITEMENT I have to offer... I'll try to be better so these blog entries aren't MILES long!

Happy April!
xo
alliwilli