Come and Gone

I can't believe that Thanksgiving has come and gone and the days until Christmas are ticking away. The Rockefeller tree lighting is tomorrow and we have our first Christmas party on Thursday! But I'm jumping ahead. Thanksgiving was wonderful and one of the most relaxing yet. It as great to spend time with family down in Nashville. We had a yummy dinner for 21 people and the next morning awoke to the sounds of credit cards swiping. The rest of the weekend was spent seeing friends, watching football, eating some more and just being together. Now begins the countdown until this Sunday at the big trunk show!

 Some pre-thanksgiving Brie and Sausage Balls - beginning to stretch the stomach

The men were concerned about getting their clothes dirty, thus the aprons

 How many men does it take to fry a turkey??

 We were able to catch up with some good friends while watching the Iron Bowl. Ben caught a cute little blonde's attention. We also watched all 3 of our football teams lose that day - somehow we're getting use to it.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We're on our way to Nashville to spend Thanksgiving with Ben's side of the family. I'm so excited to (hopefully) be with Ben work-free, spend time with family, see friends I haven't seen in 6 months, eat lots of homemade food, watch the best parade and do some black Friday shopping! We have so much to be thankful for this year! Here are just a few...

 Thankful that I get to spend the rest of my life with this amazing guy

Thankful we live in such a fun city

Family

I couldn't find a pic of the whole family so...

My two favorite little boys

More to be thankful for - 

Great friends

Jobs

Health

And being a child of God

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Packed Weekend

This weekend went by incredibly fast but probably because it was so great and we did so much. Mom and Dad came in for a little Fall trip. Since we packed in a ton of things this weekend I'm just going to give you some bullet points. (I think Ben likes it when I do this anyway)

• Thursday night - Dinner in the village at the yummy yummy Market Table
• Friday morning - grabbed some apple cider donuts at the farmers market and then hit the shopping streets until we met up with Ben to see the Off-Broadway play The Fantasticks. It was incredibly intimate and fun. I'd recommend it to anyone wanting a great play and fun unique experience.
• After the play we went down to our neighborhood and had drinks and after play eats at The Brandy Library.
• Saturday we woke up early and went down to the 9/11 Memorial then drove to West Point and took a wonderfully beautiful and insightful tour of the campus. It should definitely be on the top of the most beautiful campus list. It overlooks the Hudson river and to top it off the leaves were changing. Gorgeous!
• Then we drove to Cold Spring, NY and did a little antique shopping. 
• Finally making our way back to the city, we had dinner at Marc Forgione down in Tribeca.
• Sunday we made our way through Central Park and over to PJ Clarks for brunch then before they left to go back to Florida we hit up some Shake Shack for the closing dinner.

World Trade Tower

 South Tower fountain

 West Point Chapel

 Straight rows of bible - military style

 Cold Spring antiquing

M I C K E Y

I'm back from a fun trip to Florida with my mom, sister, and her boys. It was so much fun and nice to not be at home by myself while Ben travels. We accomplished a lot of fun activities while we were all together, one of those being Disney World! It's been two years since my last visit and I was excited to be back. One of the amazing things about growing up in Florida is being so close to Disney. I can't even count how many times I've been in my life - and I love it! There's not much explaining that needs to be done when it comes to the fun had by all when Mickey is around so I'll let the pictures talk for themselves.

Me and my two favorite little boys

Little Man was in awe of Walt

 Disney in full Fall mode

 First time meeting Mickey and was so excited! Talked about him until I left 3 days later

 Even us grown-ups were excited

 Small World wonder

 Although this little guy was put to sleep in It's a Small World

 Baby blues

 The line for Winnie the Pooh sis as good as the ride

 Race Car madness

Can hardly even see the little man 

The sun is setting which means its time to go home!

Wow! I'm finally back from my travels to Florida (watching FL beat TN - sorry hubs) and Austin. They were both such fun trips. I'm also not sure where to start to share all the fun things we did and visited so I think I'm just going to do mostly pics. 

I only have a few pics of Florida but let me just say that it was so much fun being home and with the entire family. We went to the Gator v TN game (our household rival games) and of course the Gators won.

This pic was before the game - confidence!! 

We got Krispy Kreme doughnuts after like we have since I was about 4 years old.  (the sign proves how old it is)

Come Monday, mom and I ventured over to Austin for some jewelry buying. And boy did I find some beauties! I've already made a few pieces which will be coming on the website soon!

More....

We had some awesome recommendations on places to eat during our visit and Ranch 616 did not disappoint! If you're in Austin or visiting, you should go to Ranch 616 and if possible sit outside next to cactus.

Cactus

We ventured on South Congress Ave and did some vintage shopping (mom bought me a vintage leather skirt) as well another great meal. 

Some more vintage shopping at Uncommon Objects. Again, highly suggest this shop! Also, as you're shopping down S Congress you can pick up a vintage store map which will help get you to all the good stops! Leave enough time because there are a lot of them.

One store we couldn't pass up was the old soda fountain - I could have stayed here for hours but mom and I both forced ourselves to leave

We had lunch here and it was great as it was recommended! 

We ate at Z Tejas for dinner and sat outside on the top balcony. It was just perfect! It was a great girls trip with some successful jewelry buying! Looking forward to another trip next year...

Rural to Urban

I'm back! I took my ipad with me instead of my computer and I found out that I don't know how to work ipads very well. I couldn't figure out how to blog on that thing. So I was forced to take a week off. There's now so much to blog about from Indiana and Florida that I don't know where to start. So I think I'll just post some pics today instead of trying to write how much fun we all had together. Although, I will say that I love Indiana!!