We met up with friends for dinner at Joe’s crab shack.

We love hanging out with the Lee family.

Like our bibs?

Yum

Yum

Yum

Kids got their own pots too and loved it.

Thank you for the great dinner! WE  all had an awesome time.

Chloe was invited to her friend’s birthday party.

They each got their own make-up set. What!

Chloe got to put make up,

eat pizza,

decorate her own cupcake,

and even got her hair done!

Happy 7th, Sydney! Thanks for inviting us.

So Andrew’s off to Miami and I decided to have some much needed quality girl time. Sorry Shane….wherever you are hiding.

The little girls planned a “Let it go” show. They even try to sell tickets.

Bravo girls! Thanks for the entertainment!

It snowed in our living room…

I had an awesome time hanging out with you guys. Thanks for coming!

We’re having some special friends over for a lunch today so I made:

Lobster cobb salad. I used 10 lobster tails in here.  Man, those tails are deceiving…

Israeli couscous with pine nuts and currants

Baked ziti

I served the lobster salad on rolls.

Our guest brought pretty plants for the house!

She made this awesome individual hanging glass planters for each kid!  I love this hanging garden. 🙂 They are so cute and beautiful. Thank Rachel!

Austin and I can multi-task. Posing while taking picture.

Good-bye house!

I made chili to warm us up after the cold day of skiing.

Mac n cheese with chili.

Bromance…

at its best!

We woke up to an another snowy day. We’re surrounded by snow everywhere we go!

Wait a minute… we didn’t get the memo that we’re wearing purple today…

So. Shane’s trying snowboarding for the first time today. I don’t know about this.

Oops, there he goes…

Andrew’s trying to teach Shane but it’s not going too well…

He’s trying!

Awww…

He looks happy though. (Just in this picture)

Chloe’s sticking to skiing with me.

We got on the lift and she was getting really nervous. It was a really long ride….

She felt pretty hard getting off the lift so she was really scared to ski down.

It took a long while to ski down but she did it! She didn’t want to go back up though because of the lift experience so we were done for the day after this.

The first day was tough for Chloe but she is ready to ski again tomorrow. 🙂

For Shane, he’s going back to skiing and I think tomorrow will be a better day. We’re going to find that purple team and resume the lesson…

Ski lesson continues… week 3.

Chloe’s skiing down from the mid-point of the mountain. She started getting on the lift!

Shane’s getting the hang of it. By end of the day today, he was falling less. 🙂

Our good friends are taking the kids for a sleepover at their house ! ! ! This is Shane’s first time ever sleepover and Chloe’s first time at a friend’s. She had a sleepover at her cousin’s last year so I knew she would be okay. In fact, she was too excited about it. She practically started packing the minute I told her about it two weeks ago. Shane, I was little nervous about. He’s been telling me that he didn’t want to go all week but something clicked between him and the our friend’s son during their (short) conversation about… I don’t know, what was it….NINJAGO ! The magic word that gets him every time. After that it was a done deal. Off they went.

We were so grateful for our friends! Andrew and I got to have a romantic night to ourselves. Thank you Michelle + Conway !  !  !

I made:

Sweet and spicy chicken wings

and spicy queso dip for chips

and we headed over to our friends house to watch the game.

My friend surprised me with a birthday cake during half time. This birthday has been a series of surprises!

Thank you so much for having us. What a lovely house!