Grace's Spring Break

Hola!

For spring break my parents, our dog and I traveled to Texas to visit my brother, Phil. Our trip was filled with good food, lots of laughter, and wonderful memories.

On Saturday, Phil played tour guide to Kimmie and I. Dougie was not allowed to tour Lockheed Martin, as he is not an American.

He missed out on getting one of these super cool name badges. 

I also felt like a true rebel as I smuggled in my cell phone...oops. Phil was kind enough to take ownership of my phone while we were in the building, so all was good. It was cool to see where he worked and all that goes into making certain planes, but the best part was his cubicle. Phil is the proud owner and user of a standing desk. Kimmie must have brought it up and down half a dozen times.

After a few days with Phil, we traveled to San Antonio. I loved San Antonio. It was such a cute little town and it seemed to just have a certain charm to it. Our time here consisted of a lot of walking. So much walking, in fact, that Boomer got tired and quit mid-walk. My mom stayed behind with him at one of the 4 Missions in San Antoio, while Dad and I rented bikes to get the car. In hindsight it was probably our fault to push Boomer for such a long walk, but really what dog quits on a walk.

Dougie and I did take this killer selfie mid ride! 

After our time was up in San Antonio we headed back to Fort Worth, but this time Anna would be joining us for the weekend! My brother only works every other Friday and he was lucky enough to have the Friday Anna was there off, so once again we went on another walk. This time we went to Dinosaur Valley State Park! You can actually see real dinosaur tracks, but most of them were underwater. 

Phil had a teleconference during our time at Dino Valley, but that did not stop the rest of us on going for a short hike. 

On Saturday we went to Six Flags and I'm proud to announce that Philip Hoffman rode all the rollercoasters!!! And don't think he will let you forget that anytime soon... 

I'll leave you with this picture that I think accurately describes my spring break.

xoxo,
Grace and Boomer

Spring Break!

Hello everybody!

Well, today marked the last official day of Winter term! We are all relieved and can't wait to go home! I actually did not have any finals so I got to leave a little early for spring break. I am actually sitting on a train headed home as I write this! Grace had a few finals and projects and she will be leaving on Thursday to go to Texas to visit her brother (with their dog, may I add) best vacation ever! Christine has a few more days of co-op, she's in the final stretch!!! She will head home on Tuesday after work for her spring break to prepare for her first quarter of classes as a Sophomore! I leave to go to Florida for 8 days on Friday and I could not be more excited for warm weather!

I'm sure we will have a more exciting update when we return! To hopefully make this post a little more exciting, I would like to leave you with this:

Our friend Josh.

xoxo,
Abby

Christine's Birthday Present!

Hi Everyone! Sorry it's been so long!

As you may have seen in our previous post, I am 5 years old now! On my birthday, I did some things  a 5-year-old would, like wearing a pink tiara and tutu. I even received gifts for a 5-year-old, like a card filled with owls, my favorite animal, and even a sea monkey kit! 

If you don't know, sea monkeys are actually brine shrimp that are very easy to raise. All you need is some bottled water and the kit contains the rest! The past few days I am been raising my sea monkeys and they are doing pretty well! The tank looks very dirty because they eat algae so no picture today. We have been checking up on them pretty often and, needless to say, they have become the light of the apartment. Did I mention they are in a glow in the dark tank?! 

We are also about to get some new aquatic life here in 7041. So stay tuned for more info on that surprise!

xoxo, 

Christine

Christine Turns 5!

Yes, you all read the title correct, Christine is 5...again!

Lucky or unlucky for Christine she is a leap year baby which means her true birthday only comes around every 4 years! In reality she turned 20.

Abby and I choose to surprise Christine with dinner on Sunday at a restaurant she has been talking about for months. Christine was more excited with the fact that she finally got to eat at Honeygrow, than the fact that her birthday was being celebrated for two days!  

We ordered our stir-fry on touch-screen computers! 

Monday was Christine's actually birthday and since we all know Christine leaves for work incredibly early, Abby and I slipped a very appropriate birthday card for a 5-year old and a pack of Nutella and pretzels in her lunch the night before!

Christine's birthday coincided with our Monday night routine of The Bachelor, so we had to come up with a plan to surprise Christine with something special for her birthday, but not miss our show. We came up with inviting a few people over and ordering in Chipotle, a favorite of everyone's!

Flashback to Monday morning: 

Soon after Christine left for work, Abby and I made our way downstairs as we had a cake to make and not just any kind of cake. Abby had stumbled upon a checkerboard cake a few weeks earlier and was dying to make it! This required that we make three round cakes with only 2 cakes pans, which became very time consuming. Abby whipped up the batter and headed off to class, I stayed behind to pull them out of the oven. The hard part was leveling them, cutting them in half, then dividing them equally with cookie cutter, and finally placing each color in a certain other color. Abby would probably do a better job explaining how this whole process went, so hit her up if you really want to know! For our icing we chose to go with traditional vanilla buttercream, but also coffee buttercream. When then assembled our cake and somehow during this process it became lopsided! Oops, but it did not slow people from trying a piece!

Our Birthday Girl with her checkerboard cake!

Happy Birthday Christine! 

xoxo,
Grace

Long Overdue Post

Oh my goodness, we cannot believe how much time has passed since our last blog post! We apologize for our lack of posts and once again, promise to do better. Maybe by the end of the school year we will have this blogging thing all figured out. We can hope....

Anyway, lets see what has happened between last blog post and now.
I believe it was the weekend after we lost the powerball, that we ventured across the bridge to New Jersey! We decided to take a trip to the Camden Aquarium, which has nearly 200000 sq. ft of sea life! We watched penguins play out side, attempted to touch stingrays, and walked through a tunnel full of sharks! Not gonna lie, it was a pretty exciting way to spend a Saturday.

Just look at the Shark Tunnel, pretty cool, right?

Restaurant Week happened in Center City Philadelphia and it seemed something that we needed to take advantage of! We chose Del Frisco's Steakhouse! We went during lunch and the place was packed! Abby and Christine both got fancy cheesesteak's while I went with a salmon dish! The food was divine and it was a great time! We planned to then go ice skating afterwards, but Josh decided to ditch us, so we headed home.


Ah, we have become fans of The Bachelor and watch religiously every Monday night! We are down to the final two girls, one of which he will most likely propose to. Ben, this season's Bachelor, has told both girls he loves them...we are all very interested to see how this plays out.

Which one will he choose!?!

Moving on, Abby has accepted a co-op at Breslow Partners where she will be a Public Relations Intern! We could not be more proud of Abby and wish her all the best! She is excited to see what PR is all about and have a nice little break from school.

I have accepted a study abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland for the upcoming fall term...and I might even blog about my time there

Christine is finishing up the last 2 weeks at Comcast! She is excited to get back into the routine of a normal college kid...by going to classes!

xoxo,
Grace

P.S. stayed tuned for all about Christine's Birthday Festivities