A few weeks ago my family and I flew to Mexico to enjoy a few days of sunshine and lovely fresh beach air on our spring break. My brother was able to take the week off from work and … Continue reading
Spring Break in Mexico
Tag Archives: Family Time
Summer Lovin’
As much as I love my kiddos, I also realllllyyyy enjoy summer break off. This last year was particularly brutal as I barreled through working full time, night classes to finish up my Master’s, and completing my second year of … Continue reading
MockingJay, Board Games and Lasagna
Basically the last few weeks have been jam-packed with fun events with friends and family.My friend Yaelle and I had tickets to go to see MockingJay Part 1, which was amazing. I ordered us these great pins off Amazon and we dressed … Continue reading
Seafood Lunch and a Beach Walk
A few weeks ago, my parents and I drove down along the coast to meet up with my cousin and his wife for lunch. They had taken the week off to celebrate my cousins birthday in Monterrey. We ate at … Continue reading
Crabs, Lunch and Family Time
Last Friday, my uncle Eric came into to. Eric is actually my father’s cousin, but we have called him Uncle Eric my whole life. He lives in Illinois and I usually only get to see him for about one week … Continue reading
San Francisco and a Christmas Tree Farm
My brother and I start our Thanksgiving week off right, baking a cinnamon coffee cake (a family recipe and total favourite of ours) and working in front of a crackling fire. On Friday, my Dad, Cheech and I drove up … Continue reading
Thanksgiving and Black Friday
This year, our Thanksgiving dinner was a small group, tasty foods, and a perfect day. I’ve been staying for a few dayswith my parents and I finally ended my epic clothes hold-out, and started doing laundry. If you don’t remember, … Continue reading
Summer Adventures
In the last 3 weeks of summer I have:
- Gone berry-picking with my brother
- Watched Frozen with my brother
- Made strawberry shortcake-yum!
- Visited Natasha at Google, again!
- Had a girls weekend in Pittsburgh with my mother, including these delicious waffles!
- Watched a rain and thunderstorm in Pittsburgh, just outside of this building
- Saw my very first drive-in movie (How to Train Your Dragon 2)
- Had a beach day with my girls, and used my newly finished t-shirt quilt!
- Followed up the beach-day with some fantastic horchata ice cream from Marianne’s
Watched a gorgeous sunset with my dad
- Participated in our family portraits photo-shoot, taken by the talented Andria Hautamaki (more photos coming!) Aren’t we a cute ‘lil family?!
- Knocked 2 things off my 101 list!
So far, its been a great 3 weeks of summer! How’s your summer going? How was your 4th of July? What did you do for it?
Love,
-S
Cayman Islands Part 3
Since coming back from the Cayman Islands, I have jumped back into my busy, stressful life. Grading (and yearbook) has been a big time sink lately and I look forward to the end of the quarter. I’m hoping for another week of amazing unplugged time during my next break, the first week of April.
It’s almost Friday!
Love,
-S
Chili Cook-off, Gingerbread Houses and Christmas Trees
On Saturday, we invited a few friends over to bake cookies and have a chili cook-off. We made two chili’s, a coworker of mine brought a white bean chili, and two family friends brought two other chili’s. We had two different types of cornbread, and enjoyed one tasty meal! We tasted all of them, and then voted. My dad’s house chili won hands down! I was so proud.
Our Chili Cook-off Group
On Sunday we baked our family breakfast pastry, called Nuthorns. They are amazing. My brother and Roomie tackled making a gingerbread house to beat all houses. Being an engineer and math teacher, they created a structurally sound but still beautiful house.
We had a tasty dinner last night of raclette, and enjoyed dinner just as a family last night. Today we had aunts, friends and neighbors stop by to exchange presents. I lucked out this year! More on that later.
Now we are preparing dinner for the group of us; honey mustard salad, grilled kebobs, potatoes au gratin, an onion grape tarte, lemon sorbet and apple pie! I am looking forward to a yummy family dinner.
I hope everyone is enjoying time with their family, I know I am. We played lots of wii today, and hung out with four pups!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Love,
-S
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