june re-cap

disclaimer!!: this is a very unorganized, poorly documented summary of our june - partly because we've been hopping around states so i don't always have my computer/camera with me, partly because there's too much to capture i don't even try but mainly because i am probably just lazy. regardless, it's been a super fun month but i'm kinda glad it's over :)

Houston:

esther turned 7 months! crawling everywhere, happy as can be, and has a little sibling coming this christmas! big congrats to gen & prav!!!

ivy had TONS of cousin time! there was an occasional push or cry of jealousy but overall, they are best friends :) this is at discovery pad in downtown houston.

sunday suppers: i hated missing these when we were abroad and i know i'll hate it again when we're in cambridge.

mexican ice cream sundaes:

vanilla ice cream

toasted peanuts

toasted coconut

chocolate chips

homemade cinnamon chocolate sauce

CHARLESTON

we spent a week with kevin's family at folly beach.

kevin and ivy picked up summer aquarium passes.

it's hard to say who's more excited...

kevin and i left ivy at the beach with nana to take a weekend trip to boston/cambridge to scope things out. first things first, i found my new bakery: flour. i remembered it from a food network show a long time ago. yum. we loved the town and our new neighborhood and got to walk through our next little home. it's an old red brick 4-story building built in the 1890's in harvard square. unfortunately, it was hard to see past the hundreds of books this professor couple had piled in each room. they had an insane amount of stuff packed in that little place - but we really loved it and i can't wait to get my own things settled in (including a new nursery)!

HOUSTON:

kevin made his grilling debut.

nancy taught him a few tricks while we were at the beach.

i'm loving it.

grilled chicken with mango salsa, rice and grilled corn

Brock fam trip to Cabo!

staples (11 months!) and esther

back in Houston...

Going Away Crawfish Boil for Logan!

He'll be leaving July 10th for Romania, and spending the next 11 months in 11 different countries through The World Race. Follow him at loganbrock.theworldrace.org

the end. whew

29 & verde valley pie

we had a fun celebratory dinner for trev a few nights ago for his 29th.

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root beer

chicken parmigiana

angel hair pasta
salad & bread
verde valley pie

VERDE VALLEY PIE
this is a pie grammie used to make often for all of us at our old ranch, verde valley. it's basically a gooey chocolate chip cookie. soooo good.

1 pie crust
1 cup sugar
2 eggs

1/2 cup flour

1 stick butter, very soft
tsp pure vanilla
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup chopped pecans

preheat oven to 350.
press crust into pie pan.
mix all ingredients together.
pour into pie crust.
bake 40 minutes.
let cool for at least 1 hour.
serve with whipped cream.

enjoy!

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