PROJECT 365 PICTURE OF THE DAY 9/7/11

I hadn't been to Snooze before but had always looked forward to checking it out. Whata great name for a breakfast spot. I met Pat Potter, our next door neighbor from English Sparrow Trail, for breakfast. We try to get together when we can, but hadn't for over a year. It was a great time to catch up and my hashbrowns with carmelized onions, spinach and avacado was very good. Looking forward to meeting her there again in October.

PROJECT 365 PICTURE OF THE DAY 8/31/11

So glad to have a good Mexican restaurant nearby. I went here with Daileen Loving for lunch and the food was good and company, even better. Nick and Andrew have been friends since their freshman year when they were low on the ladder for tennis...they worked their way up and up until a few weeks ago, they were both playing. Andrew decided not to play this year as he is hoping to go into golf management and has to get his handicap down. Anyways, his mom and I have been friends since then also and it was nice to be able to just sit down and chat for a while outside of a tennis match.

This building is where the first Highlands Ranch library was. Nick and I spent many hours in this place that was transformed into restaurant space (Dewey's) when the new, big library was built up near SAfeway. Now, it is Salsa Brava and I have to think it will be here to stay for a while. When I think of how life was when NIck and I would go every week for story hour, I can hardly imagine it has been 16 plus years. We would listen to story hour (and Chris joined us once he was born) and then head out to the non-fiction book area and get all the dinosaur books he could find. Many hours were spent browsing through those books and he knew every single kind of dino that ever walked the earth. Between that and trucks (ucks) and coloring, those were his early passions. It has been interesting and somewhat sad to think back on this while I write this post. So much has changed and gone on in Highlands Ranch...huge amount of buildings, grocery stores that you don't have to drive across County Line Road to get to and just a busier pace of life for us and the community. I will always reflect with tears and happy memories of those days spent with my little Nicky T and shortly after, Christopher and Zachary.

PROJECT 365 PICTURE OF THE DAY 2/20/11

FAJITA night tonight and then we are looking forward to watching the season finale of "Worst Cooks in America" on Food Network. It's amazing how they hook you in from the first day...we are rooting on Joshie. He became one of our favorite contestants and we are so hoping he beats Georg ...update later tonight.

UPDATE: JOSHIE WON! When they announced his name, I screamed out and we all clapped...way to go, Joshie!

PROJECT 365 PICTURE OF THE DAY 1/30/11

Homemade Pizza night...it's looking good and we're all getting hungry....and then, we have another pumpkin roll for dessert.