My Week in Pictures – Week 20

Happy Mother’s Day! Have a cupcake!

My mom is the best, she’s a super classy lady. Love you, Mom!

Dave and I watched this crazy video with his father while we were visiting for Mother’s Day. Totally inspired dinner Monday night! (P.S. Smitten Kitchen then posted a recipe for okonomiyaki on Wednesday.)

Chex on the keyboard!

Did you know that May 15th was Chocolate Chip Cookie Day? Don’t worry, I totally have you covered.

Azaleas at dusk

Webs tent sale! There were angora bunnies and yarn. Lots of yarn.

Dave and I attempted to make agua fresca last night with a bag of watermelon his aunt sent us home with. Totally delish.

Have a great week!

My Week in Pictures – Week 19

Birthday week! Woo!

Can I just take a moment to say that turning 31 was a lot harder than turning 30? Last year I was totally okay turning 30, I *felt* 30 in terms of where I am in life. But now that I’m 31, I’m officially in my thirties, which sounds scary. Okay, but scary. Anywho.

We finally got around to doing something with our wedding pictures. We ordered an awesome canvas collage (aka Big Love) through our photographer.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Poor Elijah at knit night

5K at work! I sucked wind, but probably because I haven’t really been running since December. It was probably in my own best interest to just walk the entire thing, rather than jog/walk. Oh well, I only added two minutes onto my December run time.

Greek lunch with my Mom and brother, the potato pizza is to die for.

A quick jaunt around MHC, since I was in South Hadley. I really wanted a Chef Jeff cookie, but the coffee kiosk was closed. It’s ALWAYS closed.

I got home to a package from Canada! Thanks Peter J!

On Friday, my actual birthday, Dave and I went to Boston for the night. The traffic driving into Boston was absolutely horrific, we’re never going in May again. I think it was a combination of Friday night traffic, commencements, and kids moving out of college. Here’s a view of Copley Square while stuck in traffic on the Pike.

Thankfully our hotel room was super comfortable (birthday champagne!) and had a wonderful view.

State House!

Birthday cocktail, I had two. (Don’t judge me.)

Saturday we headed over to the MFA for the Samurai exhibit. It was really neat, plus they had an iaido demonstration. Dave practices iaido along with aikido, so he really enjoyed it. One guy put on a full samurai suit to give us an idea of the attention to detail. They’re dressing him in the first picture below.

Here are some of the pieces in the actual exhibit.

We were pretty exhausted by the time we were back home (the traffic was much better), but I wasn’t too tired for some late night baking!

My Week in Pictures – Week 18

So. There aren’t many pictures since I was on the couch for the first half of the week, nursing my back. My view from the couch is pretty limited!

But at least I ate well, Dave really got to flex his Asian cooking muscles. One night it was chicken yakitori with miso soup, then it was a noodle dish with a soft-boiled egg. Yum!

The moving frenzy continues at work. I was pretty amazed by the scale of the move on Thursday, there were two tractor trailers parked outside my entrance.

Celebrating a co-worker’s last day after work, and they automatically gave us separate checks. Guess what I was wearing that day?

Hanging out with the girls last night, V is a pretty silly average two-year-old.

Not pictured: ice cream and movies!

Hope you have a great week and exceptional weather!

My Week in Pictures – Week 17

Sorry, I’m late by another week, friends! I was in no condition to blog last weekend – I ended up throwing out my back doing yard work. It was pretty awful since I couldn’t really move for two days. I’m going to try everything I can to prevent it from happening again in the future.

Making some Grapefruit Honey Yogurt Scones

Crazy sunburst

My knitting matches the pastry

Chocolate bread pudding at lunch… happily supporting my brother’s culinary program!

Finally opened the sun porch!

Happy hour with Bex after work on Friday. I got a Ommegang Gnomegang, so good!

We got fiddleheads AND ramps in our produce delivery. I adore fiddlehead pasta, especially when we only have it once a year.

I met my friend Susan from Rav for the first time at WEBS on Saturday. We had a lot of fun shopping, and we got yarn that matched our nail polish.

I’m the green polish, Susan’s the pink, and her friend Jen is the gray.

[photo credit: Susan K.]

Spring is finally here!

Yay!

My Week in Pictures – Week 16

This week I just wasn’t in the mood to take pictures. My heart was with Boston, along with everyone else, I’m sure. It hits extra close to home since Boston is so close to us (about an hour and a half by car), plus we have a lot of friends and family that live in the greater Boston area. Thank goodness no one we know was hurt! I’m still processing what happened, but it was a huge relief when brother #2 was finally captured Friday night.

Anyways, here are the pictures I did take this week.

Leftover beef for breakfast on Sunday. Dave’s kinda obsessed with making tamago lately.

Pudding break!

I have two daffodils this year. Tulips just came up this week!

Grilled beer bread and coffee, breakfast of champions. (I accidentally typed “bear bread” first, ha!)

Driving around doing errands yesterday, all the emergency highway signs had the same message. I tried to take a picture, but it didn’t come out. Thankfully, a friend captured the message on Instagram perfectly.

Credit to Jen and her Instagram feed

Amen.

Here’s to a less dramatic week!

My Week in Pictures – Week 15

Last Sunday, we were graced by a DOUBLE RAINBOW in our backyard.

What does it even mean??!!

My Tastefully Simple order arrived, and it was kind of hilarious how much stuff they packed into three boxes! (The fourth box was from King Arthur Flour. It was a good mail day.)

My sneaky friends and MIL shipped their orders to me to save on shipping. This is not all for me!

My “single girl dinner” of wine and cheese, nom nom.

Beef pinwheels were the special at the market on Saturday, how could we pass up these beauties?

Delish!

Dave even made a fire, it turns out we only had one other fire this year, and that was on New Year’s Eve. So unusual for us.

My Week in Pictures – Week 14

Oops. I have no good excuses why I missed a couple of weeks there. I have the L(aze).

Easter was full of family and food

Happy Birthday, Dziadzu! Or should I say, Sto Lat?

Early morning painted sky

The view from my new desk. I call it the “drive-thru window.”

Shady profile

Another gorgeous sunset

I totally spent my lunch break in the car, finishing a baby hat for a shower that evening, while listening to Harry Potter.

There may have been jello shots involved at said shower. My new (non-pregnant) co-workers have some funny traditions.

Sushi date night <3