A little bite of Australia

When I studied abroad in Australia for a semester I fell in love with the food there, in particular the desserts. In fact, I gained fifteen pounds during my stay. The treat I blame the most: Tim Tam cookies. You bite off two corners of the cookie and then sip milk or hot chocolate through the cookie which softens the inside before you eat it. The Aussies call it a Tim Tam Slam if you can eat a hot chocolate saturated Tim Tam in one big mouthful. Delicious. I was delighted but scared when I learned that you can buy them at World Market.

Kristine getting excited to try it out.

Aren't these little glasses my grandma has perfect for this?!?

My aunt Sue was not sure about this.

but she went for it.

If you have never tried Tim Tam's before- I highly recommend them!

Moooo

Have you ever played the animal game? It basically goes like this:


You blindfold the 'it' person and spin them around in circles.



The 'it' person points to someone and yells an animal name from the top of their lungs.


The person that gets pointed at must make the animal noise to the best of their ability. If the 'it' person guesses correctly who the animal noise maker is, then the animal noise maker is now the 'it' person. If they guess incorrectly, then they have to spin around and try again. While the 'it' person is spinning around the rest of the crowd is free to switch seats. And on and on it goes.


hint: point towards the crying baby sound when you are it and you can be pretty sure you'll get the mom.

The first time I played this game it was with Rick's family in LA and it was the first time I had met many of his cousins. I had a hard time remembering their names, let alone recognizing their voices in animal form. I spent a lot of time that day in the middle of the room blindfolded.

Grandpa's Malts

My Grandpa makes the best malts in the world.

Even Adelaide thinks so.

Thanks Grandpa!

Idaho? No Udaho!

That is dedicated to you, Mom. I really wanted to buy that shirt a long time ago and you would not allow it... I believe you deemed it inappropriate.

Adelaide, Jess and I just took a lovely trip to visit my grandparents in Idaho. We spent a week together and it seemed to go by so fast, we miss them already!

Here are a couple of pictures from the week, and I'm sure I'll do more posts later to highlight other parts of our trip.

Adelaide met some of my cousins for the first time.

Lexy, Tyler, Kristine and Joseph.

Adelaide and Lexy.

Adelaide with Tyler.

Adelaide sleeping on Grandpa.

Grandpa's kisses are the best.

She's so happy:)

Almost walking.

Grandpa teaching Adelaide the importance of family.

Grandma and Adelaide.

I don't have as many pictures of the two of them together for some reason but it was so precious when Adelaide would fall asleep in her arms. I would always come back to this cute scene after going for a run.

Sometimes we would put Adelaide in this box with cheerios and puffs for a while. Grandma even pushed her around in it attempting to entertain her, but she didn't even seem to notice or appreciate it... all she cared about was eating her snacks.

Peek-A-Boo

Peek-A-Boo from Emily Rampton on Vimeo.

Fair-Weather Campers

Over the weekend we went on our first family camping trip with Adelaide.

When we arrived in Palisade the weather was pretty nice and Adelaide enjoyed playing in the grass and attempting to eat twigs.

Rick set up our little tent for us and we were ready to enjoy the great outdoors!

We went with some good friends and they introduced me to my first tinfoil dinner (at least that I can remember). It was delicious and we had a great time hanging out by the fire. We also enjoyed Dough-boy's for dessert, or as San Diegans call them: Woof 'ems! Yum.

Around 11 p.m. it started raining NONSTOP, and it continued all night long. We didn't know this but our tent is not suitable for rainstorms and literally by midnight we had a couple of inches of very cold water inside with us. All our clothes and bags got soaked first, and then our mattress got pretty much drenched. Somehow I managed to find a spot that was somewhat dry if I laid in a sort of zig zag position and kept Adelaide on my chest. Rick was not so lucky and literally sat up underneath a blanket ALL night. Whenever I think about this I can't help but bust out laughing, what a scene.

As soon as the sun was up we got out of there and started our four hour drive home through rain and even snow. Colorado, someone really needs to help you understand proper May weather.

I think during the storm Rick was more concerned about the wellbeing of his poor bike out in the rain than he was about his wife and baby. When we got home he found my hair dryer and spent some time nurturing his 'other child.'

This trip was a learning experience. Never again will we go on a camping trip unless the weather forecast is sunny with high temperatures. We are just not hard core campers. That being said, we still had a great time hanging out with friends and mother nature before the storm hit:)

Arizona Sunshine

Earlier this month we headed out to Arizona to spend time with family and attend a wedding.

This trip we decided to park our car near the airport and Adelaide really enjoyed the shuttle ride from the parking lot to the airport.

She also loved riding the airport tram on her daddy's shoulders.

We went to such a beautiful wedding and fun reception while we were there- this is the only snapshot we have as proof because we were too busy dancing. Adelaide loved the dance floor too but eventually fell asleep on her aunt Meg.

It was sooo hot in Arizona and a perfect time to introduce Adelaide to the pool. She LOVED the water!

Adelaide with her great grandma hanging out in the pool.

Adelaide loves animals! One of Grandpa and Mimi Janet's dogs, Lily, is her new favorite. She followed Lily around nonstop while the rest of us enjoyed Janet's amazing peanut butter cookies and played games.

We let Adelaide try some corn on the cob... she ate the whole thing!

We celebrated Mother's Day and my birthday Sunday morning with the fam. Jess is the best sister and drove by herself out to Arizona to spend my birthday weekend with me too:)

The lemon bunt cake and quiche were delicious!

We enjoyed the quality time spent with family and also the hot summery weather. When we got back to Boulder it was rainy and even snowed. Yuck! I'm hoping the weather here matches up with it's rightful season soon!