Big Horn Sheep Day at Garden of the Gods

Nana, Papa, AJ, Griffin, and David headed for the Garden of the Gods Visitor's Center today for Big Horn Sheep Day! It was quite fascinating, kept us busy for a couple hours. They had a scavenger hunt for the kids with prizes; love these for engagement. On our way back we stopped at Rocket Fizz to get a whole bunch of candy. AJ's making a video of himself tasting "weird" candy. Our last stop on the way home was Smashburger! All the day's photos are here.

Lovesong

We opened our second weekend of the run this evening at Springs Ensemble Theatre. The show is LoveSong by Robert R. Lehan. It's "a dark comedy in which two elderly people attempt to recall whether or not they have been married for 43 years. The play shows how undependable memory is and how identical experience does not guarantee identical perception" (VisitCoS.com). This play runs about 30 minutes and is followed by a solo musical performance and a second act of 4 vignettes entitled A Collection of Things We Forgot to Say by Counterweight Theatre Lab. Fina and Ethan danced in Lovesong as a dreamscape of days long ago when characters Jeanine and Sam were "very young".

Ethan and Fina

"Sam" and "Jeanine"

Post Valentine's Day

The night of Valentine's Day we went to the 10th Anniversary show of Cheap Date Improv at the high school. Fina's been a part of this troupe for a couple years now. It's a great cheap date show ($5)! The next morning Jamie set up a home version of our set at Springs Ensemble Theatre for Lovesong. Josie came over for a couple pick-up run-throughs. And tonight (Wednesday), Lynn and Jamie went to Ambli Global Cuisine for dinner. They'd been there once before but didn't have time for their full prix fixe approach, but tonight they did. Wow! They don't remember half the names of what was in each dish. The food was uniquely fantastic! Not pictured was a curry lobster shooter for a starter. OMG.

Cheap Date Improv celebrated their 10th Anniversary
at their Valentine's Night show.

LoveSong set up at home for a pick-up rehearsal.

I lost most of this description. But very yummy.

Tiger shrimp on the left, risotto fritters on the right.

Beet and cheese salad.
With Sequentis (a new merlot release) from Daou!

Lamb pops with a Lebanese wine.

Best baba ganoush since Tucson's Olive Tree decades ago.
We asked if they ever made it, and out it comes!

A Pim's digestif

Next time... Chef's Table

Approaching Valentine's Day

The lead-up to Valentine's Day was pretty big, starting with the opening of Jamie's and Fina's show, Lovesong at Springs Ensemble Theatre. And Super Bowl LVI! And finally Valentine's Day...

Jamie's gift from our Lovesong director, Dan Robbins. Perfect!

Fina's show gift. Perfect.

Buttermilk!

Lynn and Jamie went on a walk...

At church...

AJ and Griffen were quite the helpers in preschool.

SuperBowl prep (there was lots more...)

Pink, heart-shaped pancakes!

Birthday Breakfast

Birthday breakfasts are a pretty big deal around our house, whether on the right day or not.

But first, an update on the butterflies the twins are raising.
They were let go later today and we missed the pic.

Portable eating.

Hurts Donuts was the choice this time!
No worries, they had ice cream cake for dinner.

Quite the sunrise.

Legos and Beyblades!

Getting the length right for Lovesong.
At Springs Ensemble Theatre.

Another square is done.

The twins several years ago holding their birth pictures.

Kabocha Squash. Made a great soup!