The Haps

It seems like it's about time for another Bria photo dump. Yes?

This week it was warm enough for a picnic! Spring is coming!

Even if the week before we finally got some real snow. (Well, "real" is very relative. It was, like, one inch, but it did cancel school.)

Pajama Day at school-- wearing her sweet homemade nightgown

Providing mom with moral with support in the car wash. It's possible I hadn't driven a car through a car wash since I was 16.

Staying with Marc and Jenn's kids-- we did cupcake wars.

And we took the kids for frozen yogurt.

Bria made all her school valentines by herself. This was her work station.

She loves to set up tea parties for the two of us. Always very fancy.

We ventured out to the Museum of the American Indian, which has a totally awesome kid area-- who knew?

 Building an igloo..

After a lot of tears (hers and mine), empty threats, bribes, more tears, and then a sticker chart, Bria finally learned to stay in her bed all night long. She earned a pizza movie night with her besties. Success!!

During the Super Bowl halftime show, when Beyonce came out on stage, Bria immediately ran and grabbed some of my heels (didn't even matter they were mismatched) to wear while she danced right along with Bey. That girl's got some serious moves-- Beyonce too.

And now for just some random Bria awesomeness:

California Love

Last month I spent a glorious six days with my mom and sisters in California. Rachel, Lindsay, and I flew in near Amy's new house in Orange County, and then the four of us made the drive east to Palm Desert to meet up with Whitney and my mom at my parents' time share. The last time we had a Sisters Retreat was in NYC three years ago, so we were long overdue. I really do wish I lived by my sisters. I only sometimes succeeded in not crying when I would think about going home and not seeing them again for months and months.

I had two very long travel days, at least made easier by the fact that my incredibly long layovers were in Denver.

 So happy to see palm trees when I exited the airport!

We went to the freezing cold pool

We tried to go bowling and then remembered it was Saturday night, so the alley was insanely crowded. Instead we crammed all six of us in the photo booth and then played a little Dance Dance Revolution.

The ultimate girls weekend activity: pedicures

And at-home facials:

One morning Amy said "let's take a nature walk" which actually meant hiking up a mountain. Whitney and I refused to embark on such an adventure, so we turned around halfway. 

We ate so much good food: pizza, sushi, Mexican, cheesecake, paninis. Amazing.

 

 And we filled our quota of group pictures, of course