Winter Park Colorado Ski Trip

What a great time we had during our trip to Colorado. We stayed from Saturday until the following Friday. We flew in early Saturday and did the normal things. Like get our vehicle, check into the hotel, go grocery shopping (we prefer to cook our own food then waste money going out to restaurant every night) and just look around a little bit.

Sunday we sent snowshoeing.Which was amazing. The weather was awesome, the ski was song bird blue and it was clear for miles. This was the most perfect Colorado day for sight seeing. So Mitch and I rented some snowshoes and headed to the mountain.

The lady behind the counter suggested this path that was designed for disabled people to walk thru the wood in the summer. We thought that would be perfect for a relaxing walk in the woods. The path was basically a big circle and as we entered the path you could go right or left. So we decided to go to the right. Looked a little more challenging than the left side.

So off we went and as we went the trail got smaller and smaller the steeper and steeper. We didn't think much of it because there was a part of the trail that went into the mountains and didn't stay on the path. We figured that is what we found. So up we climbed. The picture below gives you a good idea of how steep this was. However it was beautiful to see all the mountains.

This was the path when we got started. Once we got back into the hills if you steeped off the path you were thigh deep in snow. 

Then we started to back track and get back on the path and again the path kept getting smaller. Then we hit another up hill battle and this time it was steeper than the last. We kept climbing up and up and up and the trail never swung back around. I kept looking at Mitch telling him I don't think this is the right path and as we climbed Mitch stopped and said I don't think this is the right path because I don't think disabled people could get up here.

We finally decided to turn around again and get on the path we left. Once on the right path is twisted and turned and again the path got smaller. Almost to a point where you had to walk with one foot in front of the other. Again we were on the wrong path, I stopped and let Mitch venture a little further until the path virtually disappeared. He stopped and said less turn around.

So we backtracked and finally came to the entrance. Then Mitch looked down the other path that we didn't go on and said "let's see where this takes us" This path was wide and flat and you didn't need snowshoes to walk on it.

 We found this little guy on the path. It's our little snow fairy. I made Mitch get a picture with it...I thought it was to funny. Come to find out the path to the right (which we originally took) was the discovery path which is not traveled very often. The path we found the snow fairy was the path the lady was talking about.

I'm glad we did the discover path because it was the true experience of snowshoeing.

I was going to try to talk about the entire trip in one post but the post is already longer than I expected. So I'll do a second post later.

Tis the time of Year for Taxes!!!

Yep, that time of year again where you have to dig through all your tax forms and hope you have everything you need to fill out your taxes for good ole uncle SAM. Then you spend hours running through some type of tax program entering all those numbers that never seem to add up with hopes that you don't owe anything to the government.

I have to say this year was amazingly easy! The only reason is because I used Turbo Tax last year and when I installed the program it asked if I wanted it to pull information from the previous tax year. Of course I clicked the yes button. The only thing I had to add was all the numbers. In an hour and a half I was done!

AND Good News! I don't owe anything to the tax collector this year but here is where the real disciple comes is going to come in. Do I stick with my plans and pay down my college loan (remember the stupid MBA program I dropped out of, well I owe money on that) or do I take that money and spend it on something I've been wanting to purchase for a while now?

Decisions, decisions, decisions.

I really should stick with my plan but I so badly want this other thing.....ugh!!!

Euphoria Brownies

I'm going to a super bowl Sunday party this weekend and I need to bring a side dish of some sort. I was going to make my famous brownies that everyone seems to love however while on pinterist I found this recipe for "slutty brownies". I didn't like the name so I changed it to Euphoria Brownies.

Heres the recipe:

Euphoria Brownies

1 Box of chocolate chip cookie mix or homemade (plus ingredients on box/bag)

1 Box of brownie mix (plus ingredient on box)

2 Packs of Oreos (double stuffed ones are even better if you can find them)

Your favorite ice-cream (optional)

1) Preheat your oven to 350°F

2) Line a baking tray with grease  proof paper.

3) Make Cookie dough

4) Spread cookie dough in bottom of lined pan

5) Cover this layer with your Oreos. Don't use the broken ones

6) Mix up your brownie batter & pour over your Oreos.

7) Bake for 30mins.

8)Remove from the oven and leave to cool. 

9) When its still a little bit warm, use the paper to lift your creation out of the tray and rest it on a chopping board. Cut as desired. 

Looks so good can't wait to try them!