Cincy Christmas

We had a great and very busy time in Cincy for Christmas. We were home for about 2 weeks and spent almost every night sleeping somewhere different. Roslyn was a real trooper, except for when I wanted to put her in a santa hat.

She tried Skyline chili for the first time and loved it!

We ditched her with my parent's to go to a childhood friends wedding and as a Christmas gift to ourselves we got an air bnb downtown for the night.

Visited the Krohn conservatory. She tried to touch everything and really liked the trains.

We hung out with family a lot.

By the 3rd present stop she started to get the hang of it and enjoy the bows and paper.

We had a great time and miss it everyday!

Halloween!

I am that person that loves group costumes. Also my mom made all of our Halloween costumes. So now that we have Roslyn and she doesn't yet have opinions about what to dress up as I jumped on the chance. We were all from the Princess Bride, Josh was Dread Pirate Roberts, I was Inigo Montoya an d Roslyn was an ROUS (rodent of unusual size). I found most of Josh and I's costume pieces from the thrift store and then did a bit of editing but I hand made Roslyn's little costume and I'm very proud of it! She looked adorable as a giant rat and she tolerated being in it quite well.

We took her out in our neighborhood and thought she would love it, as she loves other people. I think all the costumes and the mobs of people scared her a bit because she defiantly did not like it. We were bummed as we only made it to 5 candy pieces before she was over it. She also picked bad candy like banana laffy taffys. We'll work on it for next year.

Gussying up Gloria

Decorating Gloria was much warmer than chopping her down. I love how the tall skinny tree looks in our apartment. She doesn't have many branches but we managed to fill her up pretty well. Joshua added lights to the banister and we had candles lit. We spend the afternoon making Christmas cookies and cups of tea. Our little apartment's coziness is at it's maximum now.

6th Annual Campsgiving

We embarked on our 6th Campsgiving trip this year! I think this is our favorite tradition. This year we headed to Colorado. We flew into Denver and grabbed a car to head to Golden Gate Canyon State park where we had a cozy cabin waiting for us. We were afraid of the temperature being super low like it was a few years ago, when we froze in a yurt, but it turned out to be high 60's the whole time we were there!

Thanksgiving morning we headed out to a little 4 mile hike. We couldn't fly with our snowshoes, too big, but we did bring our spikes. They made it super easy to ascend the hill and the snow was low so it worked out perfectly. We wandered around the Estes park hike for a few hours, took in some sweeping views until the sun started to fade.

Headed back to our cabin to start the Thanksgiving feast. I accidentally got sweet potatoes instead of red potatoes but they still mashed up into a delicious mashed potato. We had smoked turkey with gravy, roasted garlic mashed sweet potatoes, sausage stuffing, and roasted Brussel sprouts with leeks. The trick is to get it all done at the same time and the fact that we're doing it over a fire makes it a little stressful but we did pretty good this year. It was all super tasty and we had enough left for a sausage stuffing leftover dinner the next night, our favorite part.

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