Spring Break was a particularly mellow one this year. We agreed to rein in any extra spending in favor of saving it for our trip to Italy. I really missed our usual snow shoeing excursion up Bear Pass in the blazing spring sun. The drippy grey weather did NOT lend itself to much outdoor fun. And outdoor fun is what's FREE in our world right now....
I did take Willa out for a promised blueberry french toast breakfast at our favorite cafe to start the week off. On my work days she came in with me and had fun hanging out. But mostly the week was spent relaxing at home, finalizing trip stuff-getting all that info plugged into apps on my phone, reading, and puttering while Willa got in some good hard imaginary play time.
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did cram a lot into our last weekend before school started, though. A fast but hardcore 5k run in 10 inches of new snow-uuuuugghh, dinner at our house with friends who ran the race, too, a nice family skate ski the next morning, and celebrating Miles's birthday.
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| Breaky at the Middle Way Cafe |
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| We've switched to all-grain beer brewing.... |
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| ....and it's a LOT of work!!! But when the sample from the first gravity reading tastes great, you know that beer is gonna be PHENOMENAL!!!!! |
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| Beautiful handmade mash paddle Miles's friend made |
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| Snuggle time with kid and cat |
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Witness the FITNESS, yo!!! I'm thrilled that Willa can join us for short runs now! Plus, her fitness fashion is to die from for!!! |
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| She's horse-crazy. Doing some leather-working on a saddle she made for one of her Breyer horses. |
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| I love when Miles comes home from work early to run with me! |
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| Shopping day. Having a little hot cocoa and a cookie at Jitters |
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| She got to pick out a special outfit for Italy |
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| Deep into world-building |
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| BAM! And then the snow hits. Saturday's Shamrock shuffle race. |
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| Tostadas and margaritas with good friends! |
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| And an uproariously funny game of Cards Against Humanity! ALWAYS is! |
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| Miles's birthday! Willa gave him the raku trout- the 5th to finish off his collection. |
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| There won't be many more days of this this season! Taking it all in while we can! |
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| Love to play with my hunny! |
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| Extremely tall peanut-butter-cup cake that Willa and I made |
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| The Birthday Boy chose homemade mac-n-cheese and filet mignone for his b'day dinner. |
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| Oh, hi, sun. Thanks for making an appearance on the last afternoon of Spring Break. |
