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Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts

Monday, September 2, 2013

Labor Day Weekend.

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the awesomeness that three day weekends are. I had an absolutely wonderful weekend. The weather in San Francisco has finally turned into days of gorgeous sunshine and perfect temperatures. If this weekend, the traditional first weekend the start of the fall season, is anything to go off of, I am going to be very happy here come, oh mid February. 

This weekend I...

Consumed a LOT of coffee. 



Worked on sewing at home with this guy watching over. A friend sent him to me as a surprise last week and he's so cute and sparkly. Now he just needs a name...

Went a little bit crazy at Papyrus buying notecards. I HAD to. All of mine are back in storage in Indiana and I need cards for #goalsatchoice. Ad they were on sale!

Drooled over this catalog that randomly appeared in my mail slot. I tend to get a lot of random catalogs from previous tenants. Even though I do everything on my phone and ipad i still love looking at paper planner.

Worked on testing the directions for projects in our book!

How was your long weekend?

Monday, November 12, 2012

Halloween.

Ok, so I'm clearly a little behind on posting since I'm just now getting to Halloween. But instead of viewing this as a failure let's just think of it as a way to keep the festiveness going on a little longer. Of course that also means we've crashed head first into Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I think a little extra cheer might be good for me right now since the winter blahs have hit me early this year

The N-boy and I headed to St. Louis again this year for his brother and sister-in-law's annual Halloween bash. Halloween is their favorite holiday and their parties always promise to be a festive occasion. This year was obviously the best year ever since it was the first year with the cutest baby niece on the planet. In a spider costume. 

Second cutest costume (after aforementioned spider-baby of course) was my Robin Hood outfit. Which, when posed on the HOOD of my car makes for an even more clever costume. Too bad I didn't think of that until afterwards. But now it makes me look smart AND festive! 


The N-boy donned a festive hat. And a plate of creepy gummy sushi. 


 I found this in a magazine at their house. I really REALLY want this! Hint hint family members who keep asking what I want for Christmas. 

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Summer Road Trip-Wednesday (Fourth of July)

Tuesday we left Madison and drove up to Green Bay. We stopped at a few stores along the way, but nothing was particularly photographable. Unless you really wanted to see a picture of the N-boy refusing to go into the American Girl outlet store with me.

As per what seems to have become our own little tradition we spent the fourth of July up in Door County. Unfortunately, the N-boy's dad pulled his back that morning and couldn't go with us, but we still had a good time with his mom.

Someone was clearly in a festive holiday mood. 


We had two places we wanted to be sure to get to: a market with lots of samples and a winery. We decided to show good judgement and hit up the samples before doing any wine tasting.

We always stop at Wood Orchard Market located just north of Egg Harbor. 

They were appropriately festive outside with a chalk sign, and inside with lots of yummy cherry and raspberry based items to sample. We ended up with our old standby of raspberry salsa, and a new favorite of cherry butter.



We ended up driving a little further up up to Fish Creek for lunch before turning back and heading towards Door Peninsula Winery.


Why yes, it was highly festive. And we bought a few bottles.

And for the second time in two days, great restraint was shown.

After extravagant sampling (at least by me) we got back in the car where I promptly fell asleep on the way back down to Green Bay. I woke up only when we arrived at the grocery store (the aptly named Festival Foods) to buy more Wisconsin alcohol (New Glarus beer).


Once we got back to the house I headed out to the patio to relax with my books! 





Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Happy Holiday.

As is probably now abundantly clear, the N-Boy spent the last ten months in Russia. He loves Russia. I love Russia. It is a wonderful country and he is doing some super fascinating research on Russian history. 

But I think he's still glad to be home. And I'm most definitely glad to have him here. 

Happy Fourth of July!