Easter 2011

Easter 2011 was much different than Easter 2010.

A quick 2010 recap - Church and brunch with Col & Rod, which was fun and wonderful to spend time with friends...then we headed back to our apartment and watched movies on the computer for the rest of the day. This lead to me being weepy and sad that we weren't with our families and that we were on the other side of the country and yada yada yada. Basically, we had been here for 3 weeks, and I was super homesick.

Fast forward to 2011 - We made Italian Pizzagaina to bring to All Souls, spent the morning at church and at church brunch after with new friends, went to Avery brewery with friends for an Easter beer, and then went to Cassy & Justin's for Easter dinner, where Leah and Cassy whipped up a delicious feast and I made Coconut Key Lime Pie for dessert. We had a wonderful day with friends, we got to talk to our families back home.

While I still missed our families back in CT, this Easter was much easier to be out here, and it was so fun to spend time with our new friends! (It probably made it easier too, since we are heading back to CT next week and get to see everyone!)

Italian Pizzagaina

An update on our lives...

I havn't posted in forever, so I am catching up today. Besides all our visitors, here is what has been going on in our lives:
*Tim passed his certification exam, wahoo!
*We have been getting closer with people from church and it has been so fun and wonderful!
*We are both back into working out several times a week, and we have resumed biking to work a few days a week.
*Both of the kiddos I nanny have started walking - I'm so proud of them :)
*We are heading to CT/VT the first weekend in May for Tim to compete in Tough Mudders at Mt. Snow with a bunch of our friends - I can't wait to see our families and our bestest friends all in one place!
*The weekend after Tough Mudders, I head to Italy with M's family :) SO excited!

I think that is it for the updates...I'll try to post more often in the coming weeks!

Grammy's Ravioli

I've been wanting to make my grandmother's ravioli all winter, and after making calzone last week we had leftover ricotta cheese, so I thought I would take advantage of the rainy/snowy/cold day on Sunday (after a beautiful day of climbing in sunshine and almost 80 degree weather on Saturday!) to make them. When you don't have a pasta roller, making ravioli is time consuming and not super pretty, but we had them for dinner last night and they were delicious anyway! The secret is cinnamon and sugar in the filling - an amazing contrast to the saltier tomato sauce :) Here are some photos of the process and the result:

Rolling out the homemade dough

Adding the filling

the filling

Sealing the ravioli

finished ravioli - not my prettiest one :(

Plate of finished ravioli

plate of finished, cooked, and sauced ravioli :)

Grillin'

We recieved out REI dividend awhile ago, and decided to buy a grill with it :) We are super excited to be able to grill again, and have already used it a bunch. I was so excited about it the day we bought it that I took a million pictures, I thought I'd share them with you all!

Our shiny new grill :)

Makings of pina coladas - that pineapple coconut juice is amazing!

Our finished chicken burgers

Tim grilling :)

Yum!

Lisa's Visit!

A few weeks ago, Li came to visit us during her spring break. Her arrival didn't go quite as planned, and instead of arriving a little before 11 on Tuesday evening, she arrived at about 3:15 on Wednesday morning. After sleeping in, Li and Tim spent the afternoon biking around Boulder, and when I got home we went for a walk and made dinner and hung out. On Thursday, Li and Tim went skiing at ABasin, and on Friday they came and walked with C and me. On Saturday we all headed back up to the mountains and had an unexpected powder day at Breck :) We were all sore from various workouts earlier in the week, and our legs were jelly by the time we were walking around the town - it was totally worth it though! Li made us a delicious dinner on Saturday evening, and we spent the night watching a movie and relaxing. On Sunday we went to church, and then went to the largest Bass Pro Shop ever before dropping Li off at the airport. It was a fun trip, and we really enjoyed having Li here with us!

We also had Adam stay with us on Sunday and Monday after Li left, and it was wonderful to see him too! I think our visitors have ended for the time being...it will be weird not having anyone with us for awhile!

Here are a few photos of Li's trip:

Li looking out at Boulder from Mt. Sanitas

Me and Li - Sistas on a Pow day at Breck

Li at the top of Imperial Bowl

Happy Hineys!