best birthday ever

I have never felt as loved or as blessed as I did this weekend for my 26th birthday. It began saturday with breakfast in bed, peach oatmeal, my favorite, and apple cider! That evening we ate at Last Resort with friends, the Pepins, Helleloids, Kelley's, and Chad.
Then it was back to the house where the Bozeman's and the Miller's joined the rest of us for a few board games! Where Chad ate some fire,

We had a little hookah, pumpkin pie flavor!

And played some baldrerdash and then cranium, guys versus girls. The fellows outnumbered us and won.

On Sunday, during the Flight of the Conchords party at the Kelley's, there was an ice cream cake (Birthday Cake Flavored!).There were so many candles that I wasn't able to blow them all out. Guess my wish won't come true this year.

snow trip

Mid-month, we journeyed to Boone, NC for a little snow and fun, only to find little snow but lots of fun! Here are some of the highlights from our trip:

The Cabin rocked!

Here's the inside.
Me and Matt's bedroom was HUGE!

Jason shoveled the driveway with help from some of the fellows.

Crammed in one car for a grocery run.

Jason eats a bagel bite with sour patch kids on top. He said it wasn't half-bad. Jill literally swings from the chandelier!

Big meals together!

Daniel and his Dean's dip. I don't think I saw Daniel once without that at arm's reach.

Wrap around porch with half a dozen rockers. Great morning reading spot! Jill and I were enjoying our morning coffee out there with a good book, before the men interrupted.

Then we played a rivoting game of Sardines, where one person hides and everyone else tries to find them in the dark and once you've found them, you hide with them. Bethany even hid in a suitcase and we nearly never found her!

After that, we played Cranium. Here, Luke and Matt solve a puzzle.

Casey reads us a question.

Casey and Daniel were a cranium-match made in heaven!

"Daniel, write the first 3 words that come to your mind when you hear Seasame Street." Daniel wrote 2.

"Your puzzle is to spell the word "Astrology"backwards. Lets start with you Daniel. "Uh....E?"

Chad and I beat the other teams by a landslide! Good thing Jason put his money on us!

Luke and Matt say "Yo, it's a cloodle!"

There was plenty of hot tubbing, eating, relaxing, game playing, antiquing, some skiing (by the Bozeman's and Luke) and movie watching as well. We all agreed that we should try to do this annually!

feeling nostalgic

I flat out missed the old-school blog. I'm done with frilly bells and whistles...for now.

Lyndie's day!

Sorry that I'm a little late in getting this up, crazy couple of weeks for the Moore household(I'm also sorry that I stole this picture off your blog, but I didn't have any pictures of you on my work computer). But today is the wonderful Lyndie Miller's birthday, and I'm about to burst to list my favorite Lyndie-ism's.

1) Gourmand: She is a fabulous cook! I can list about a hundred of her dishes that rock my world...but I won't list them all for time's sake. Here are a small few: Coffee Punch (I stole that recipe from her), Fuji Salad, Mississippi Sin, Monkey bread, homemade ice cream, potato soup, I could go on and on!

2) Hero: She absolutely, 100%, without a doubt saved me and Matt's wedding along with her husband, James. They were super heroes on our wedding day and Matt and I probably wouldn't have gotten married if it weren't for them!!! Thanks guys!

3) Genius: Lyndie may possibly be the smartest person I've ever known. She graduated, with HONORS, from the University while getting her CPA. She has never made a B. She can do math I never knew existed!

4) Modest: Even though we ALL know she could ace any test, she was always SURE she failed all of her CPA exams, when in fact I believe she got perfect scores...each time.

5) Exemplary: She is an excellent daughter, sister, wife, mother, follower of Christ, and FRIEND. I would do well to be half as good at any of these things as Lyndie is.

LOVE YOU SO MUCH GIRL!!!

win

So this Tuesday we won first place at Trivia!!! And the exciting part is, not only do we win a $50 gift card...we get to choose the "winner's choice category" for next week! Since Chad chose U2 last time we won first, they let me pick this week.....and you guessed it! I chose the Harry Potter books! Not the movies, not the fandom, purely the books! I am so stinkin'excited to knock the socks off next week's competition! I will be refreshing my HP knowledge all week!

sale

So, I made my first sale on etsy last week, and I'm super psyched! My little shop is totally for fun, I doubted I would sell anything, but how cool was it that someone thought something I made was worth buying! Mostly my stuff is for dollhouses....because that is my crafty outlet. I plan to post about my current and past projects soon.

gone

Totally psyched because the next few days I'll be spending in the snowy, snowy mountains: skiing, snow tubing, ice skating, and snow ball fighting with some of (but not all {sad face} of) my favortie people. More about the trip to come.

washington generals

So for the past 2 months our Tuesday nights have been spent at Locos on Timothy playing a rivoting game of Trivia. We are asked about everything from sports, music, pop-culture, history, language, movies, you name it and its been a category...
Our regular waitress, Ginny, is super fun, and not only knows exactly what we'll order every week, she has at one point dragged me into the restroom to show me her tattoos(she has 2 Harry Potter tattoos, that I think are the coolest things EVER). I feel comfortable saying we've gotten close. A couple weeks ago I even brought her a surprise (Twilight hair clips) which she went crazy over! I hope to invite her to church, she seems pretty intrigued that we meet in a bar.
Here's Bill. He's a character, alright. His motto is lose together, win alone(hehehe). But everyone brings something to the table (literally). Bill and his MBA(the business world, economics, and news are his forte), Chad and his ridiculous pop-culture and music knowledge make him a genius. I tend to meet the nerd quoto with my book exposure at Barnes & Noble (literature, language, and foreign culture). I'm also the token girl on the team, so I cover all the girly categories. Unfortunately, my team has had to learn the hard way not to trust me with numbers. We were asked "How many tablespoons in a cup?" And of course they looked to the one women...I confidently answered "Three". Only to later discover it was "Sixteen."
Matt is great with sports, movies, and filling in the rest of the gaps! Out of around 20 teams, we on average place 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. However, on rare occasions, we get 4th out of 20 which we beat ourselves up over. Although, considering our team is half the size of the majority of the other teams, its nothing to be asshamed of!

This is pretty much the standard team, on a weekly basis. But occasionally we're accompanied by the Bozeman's and/or Kelley's which leave our team unstopable!