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Things we've been up to recently...

snuggling, big bugging, eating (as always), cleaning, imbibing, celebrating, splashing and spinning

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Recent Tripp

Tripp's been walking for a few weeks now, but last friday he was cracking himself up by falling down.

To borrow a chapter title from Tina Fey's Bossypants, "There's a drunk midget in my house." And if you haven't read bossypants yet, go treat yourself. Pretty sure I've blogged about it before. If you're a mom and spared for time, at least read the above referenced chapter. Parental comedic gold!

Reasons Tripp is Crying

Just so no one thinks I favor one child over the other, I thought I'd add a list about Tripp. He does cry too.

Reasons Tripp is Crying:
he is hungry

he is tired

i won't let him crawl inside the dishwasher


Those are the only reasons he cries. Seriously. He's the sweetest ever!

But he's also not 2 yet, so this list could change. Drastically. 

Easter Egg and Avocado Salad

I love egg salad. I'm an egg salad purist though. Eggs and mayo only! Nothing else. None of this celery or other nonsense. Ick!

Today, however, as I was about to make some for lunch with left over Easter eggs, I had a stroke of genius while I glanced at an overripe avocado in my fruit basket. 

Avocado instead of mayo? 

It worked sooooo well and turned out delicious, creamy and tasty. And I didn't even need to add salt or pepper. Even though avocados aren't necessarily "healthy" I'd venture it was a better alternative than may-o-naise. 

Super simple:

two hard boiled eggs. half an avocado. mash. done!

I ate mine on a toasted sandwich thin with sliced cucumbers. 

wow, now i'm really getting off the purist track!

Tripp was a little skeptical at first...

but ended up loving it

actually, he loved it so much I could barely enjoy mine; 

he kept demanding more bites!

Picky eater Scarlett did not so much as glance at the egg salad,

but she did ask for her picture to be taken

If you still have colored eggs in your fridge, I'd def recommend trying egg-avocado salad. Perhaps you're like David and despise egg salad. I know, it's a texture thing. Or maybe it's an excessive amount of mayo thing. If the latter is the case, try with an avo instead. Enjoy! 

And if not, no worries, more for me! 

What have you been making with your left over Easter eggs?

Visiting Sisters: Austin Adventures

My 17 year old sisters, Shannon and Grace, came to visit Austin for their spring break. 

While the week mostly consisted of Scarlett and Tripp squeeze time, 

we did find some room for cool austin adventures...

hike at McKinney Falls State Park

Classic "i love you so much" photo at Jo's Coffee

(Shannon and Grace were here last year when Tripp was born,

 so we have a then vs now shot! Perhaps we'll make it a yearly tradition!)

Movie night at Violet Crown Cinema. 

Front row reclining leather chairs, delicious food, generally pretty awesome. 

The movie, Stoker, turned out to be reeeeeeallllly creeeeeepy!

Home activities included lots of snuggle time, playing in the back yard, 

taking photo shoots of Tripp, dying easter eggs and 

making (slash quickly eating) mint chocolate chip cookies

other things i don't have pictures of include:

shopping on south congress

eating lots of frozen yogurt 

(yogurt spot is better than berryaustin)

browsing bookpeople

road trip to Lockhart eating @Blacks BBQ

Scarlett and Tripp had a lot of fun with their Aunties! 

And I loooved having my sisters around!

Y'all come back now, y'hear?!

LOVE YOU EVERY DAY SISSIES!

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY TRIPP!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE SWEETEST BOY IN THE WORLD!

We hosted a First Birthday/St. Patrick's Day Party at our house on Sunday

Lots of green food and Irish cheer celebrating Mr. Tripp's big day!

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Things we've been up to recently:

Cooking, eating, gardening, sewing, trike riding, building, snuggling, dancing, laughing, more cooking and eating...