more valentine's day

This afternoon Carson came over to watch the girls so cris and I could go out and enjoy a fancy Sunday Brunch at the Broadmoor Hotel. The Broadmoor is a very cool, old, famous hotel in Colorado Springs. We had driven by it a few times, but never actually been to the hotel or any of the restaurants.

"The Broadmoor"

Sunday brunch was indeed fantastic. I have a certain technique that i use at fancy buffet's... basically i scope out the "big money" items...you know, the crab legs, shrimp, etc., and try to skip the basics (no cesear salad for me at the broadmoor buffet!)
Cris, however, does not subrscribe to my theory. His brunch consisted of an Omelet, sausage links, a few pieces of bacon and some other little sides...basically a $6.99 Grand Slam from Denny's. :)
We had a great time together, and it was fun to have a few hours of baby-free time

My mom had bought the girls some Christmas Dresses for next year at the after-christmas sales. I decided to get a little extra use out of them and let them wear them for valentine's day this morning (the hat was nova's own addition...she loves that thing!)

They loved having pretty new dresses, and kept saying they were wearing 'princess dresses'

This evening i made a big bed on the living room floor, and we all snuggled up and ate popcorn and watched "up". Nova was excited about all hanging out together, but didn't really care too much about the movie. Juneau was pretty in to it, and narrated along with the whole thing..."look out for the scary guy!" "oh, the grandpa's ok, the grandpa's ok".

Juneau enjoying her popcorn.

Great news also to report...Juneau is basically potty trained! This whole week she wore either her 'big girl panties' (which are actually 'big boy panties'...its rather tough to find Nemo and Lightning McQueen in the girl's section) or her Dora Pull-Ups. She is obsessed with keeping Dora clean "so she doesn't cry". We never said anythign about keeping Dora clean, or Dora crying, but she has created this little scenario that she obsesses over all day. It is certainly working, and she has had only a couple of accidents...she is even dry 90% of the time at nap and bedtime. We are soon to have only 1 in diapers, and we are excited!