It's Friday!!!

It's Fridayyyyyy! 

Have you heard about that surprise television death? Yeah, me too. 

If you live under a rock & haven't heard about it... prepare to pee your face.

It has seemed like the longest week EVER. I even caught a mysterious illness & missed a day of work. I think me actually writing this out makes the sickness real & frees me of any guilt I might have felt. That's a big (HUGE) might! 

Friday is grocery shopping day. As weird as it sounds I love to grocery shop. I mean really, truly I do. Nate & I go really late at night, even at 1 AM on occasion. It's prime time since the store is absolutely empty except for 1 or 2 other odd ducklings.

I make out a list of everything we will need for the week & write down dinner ideas. This makes it easier & typically it keeps us from buying things that aren't on our list. The key word there being typically. The warmer weather really gets me in the mood to cook elaborate, healthy-ish dinners. We're getting back into our "meatless monday" routine, so I'm going to make eggplant parmesian. I've also got a sausage-hash-thing on tap. I will be sure to let you know how that goes! I'm going to squeeze a trip to Barnes and Noble into our jam packed weekend. I've got to step up my meatless game.

We have a wedding to go to this weekend. We got schnazy new outfits & can't wait to inhale endless amounts of cake & beer. 

Have a happy weekend! XO :)

Easter Weekend

Completely late on our Easter happenings, but it's been a busy few days!

We traveled home to see our families for the holiday. It was really nice since it's been over a month. Sleeping in, having your mom make you a bunny breakfast & slow country roads,what more could a gal ask for? 

Anyway... Nate's family had their Easter dinner on Saturday complete with Easter trivia. It's always fun to be pitted against one another on a holiday. The trivia totally kicked our asses though. We know nothing of the Easter holiday or anything else for that matter. Is it such a terrible thing that I got overly competitive with a 5 year old? I like to think not. She started it anyway. I mean doing the whole "loser, loser, double loser...." is completely normal for a grown woman. In the end we both lost, but I'll get her next year.

My family had Easter dinner on Sunday & as if trivia the day before weren't enough for our competitive hearts, we had an Easter egg hunt & an egg toss. Mind you, there is no one younger than 21 partaking in these activities. We're all trying to figure out what will happen when a grandchild comes. Do we all continue to do the Easter games too? I'd like to think so. We're all kids too! They've gotta learn a thing or two about losing. Am I right? Or am I right? I sound awful, I know.

I learned of loss. I lost both games. Unacceptable. I will blame it on my egg toss partner, she throws like a linebacker & my bag conveniently had a hole in it. Everyone else made out like bandits. Me.. I was awarded the "boobie prize." Literally, my prize had big, ugly boobs attached to it. My dad had to look up those boobs & perfectly cut them out to be placed on my prize envelope. Gross.

Moving along... Monday we traveled to Rochester to look at apartments. We quickly eliminated two. Very quickly. I'm getting old & doggone it I want something nice & new! This leads me to our final option. It's brand new! New appliances, new tubs, new floors, new walls. I could squeal just writing all of that! The only hiccup is that construction is not complete, but is supposed to be completed by the time we would like to move. Fingers crossed.

Have a fabulous rest of the week! :) XO

Artwork Inspiration

Ever since I found out we will be moving in May I've been so excited to decorate & make our new place feel more like us! Most everything in our current apartment are hand me downs. We're super grateful, but they just aren't things we would have picked out for ourselves. Our apartment is so old & everything is straight out of 1976. The walls are paneled, cracking & frankly just weird, so we haven't hung too many things up since living here. One thing I'm really excited to do with our next place is hang artwork up, maybe a gallery wall or two... who knows, I just can't wait! 

I've been browsing Pinterest endlessly for decorating ideas. Since we will most likely be moving into another apartment/townhome I've been looking at Apartment Therapy A LOT! They have the neatest ideas. It is going to be insanely hard to decide what to do, but I've included a few of my favorites so far.

I've also been browsing some artists' for the actual artwork. I found Anna Bond of the Rifle Paper Co. & she has a few prints I'm obsessed with. Her work is so beautiful and feminine... love it!  Also, Minted has really amazing options for art prints too. I've found quite a few I would love to own!

Happy April Fools Day! XO