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

Spring Happenings

Match Day was on the first day of Spring & it was snowing, go figure. There were many other "firsts" & "once in a century" happenings on that day as well (another medical student informed us of these, otherwise I would have never known...), but really all we cared about were the results in that damn envelope. We had to sit through far too many speakers, watch everyone receive their envelopes & have the most nerve racking countdown on the planet. Finally at noon, after months of waiting, we found out we will be living in Rochester, NY! We couldn't be more excited! It was Nate's #1 choice & myself and our families couldn't be more proud!

Afterwards we were served a fancy lunch with the most delicious desserts.

Later that night the whole medical class went to a local bar with more delicious food & drinks and danced the night away.

Saturday morning I decided to make pop tarts. They are not high on my list of favorite foods, but we had leftover dough from a quiche & weren't sure what to do with it. So pop tarts seemed like the logical choice. They were incredibly easy & really good. 

We also went to see Nate's sister because she had a surprise for Nate (and me). Each of our family members had sent her photos congratulating Nate & then she put them all together in a collage. It was so awesome & way cooler than a card!

Side note...we recently saw Cinderella & it was so much more than I ever thought it would be. She wasn't my favorite princess growing up, but this movie made me love her. It makes me look at our dog in a whole new way. Sometimes I really wish he could talk, but then I rethink that whole notion because he would probably tell me what an idiot I am for talking to him like a baby. I swear he rolls his eyes at me.

Happy Tuesday! XO

Doctor Nate!

Yesterday we found out Nate will be a pediatrician! It's such exciting news & I could not be more proud! We find out on Friday where he will do his residency & it's been the most nerve racking experience to wait this long! Fingers crossed.

Speaking of Nate becoming a doctor... he loves craft beer. Like looooves it & is always looking to try new ones any chance he can get. Everyone that knows him relatively well, knows this about him. So, for Christmas my family bought him a brew your own beer kit with reusable beer bottles & I designed the label. He was beyond excited. 

The name I decided on might be a tad cheesy, but I was running with the tagline 'The Cure for Whatever 'Ale's' You', so "Doctor Nate" was the obvious choice. I settled on "Forty Four Beer Company" (this was his jersey number in football) for the name of his "brewery" with the hopes he would continue this little venture. Which he must be since two more boxes of beer making essentials just arrived at our door.

The process was relatively easy; it is more of a waiting game than anything. There are a few tweaks to work out for next time, but last weekend we were able to finally try it out & it was pretty darn good for a first try! Now we are trying to think of new names for the next couple of batches he brews.

Hopefully focusing our attention on something else will make Friday arrive more quickly.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! :)

Bucket List

We have the very real possibility of moving this Spring. Neither of us would mind this, we're very much hoping & praying that we do. But nonetheless, Hershey has been very good to us. It is the place we shared our first apartment, we cut down our first Christmas tree & probably the happiest of all... it is the place we got engaged. We've had some really great memories here & we will miss it to some degree, but we are sooo ready for a change of scenery. 

We've lived here together for almost 3 years & we've done a whole heck of a lot of things, but there are still things we haven't done. Since a moving date is getting closer, we've been creating a little bit of a bucket list. Some are things we've already done, but love & others are things we haven't managed to do while living here.

1. Run to Chocolate World & have milkshake.

We've walked to Chocolate World countless times since it's only a couple of miles away, but we've always wanted to run there.

2. Go to Park Side bar.
This is a little dive bar right near Hershey Park that is always packed! Supposedly they have really good food & they always have big signs out for seafood!

3. Indian Echo Caverns.
There are a ton of signs for this place. It is really close to us, but we've just never gone. They have caverns (obviously) & mini golf.

4. See a show at the Hershey Theater.
This place always has really great shows. There are comedians, plays & musicals coming all the time.

5. Visit York, PA.
We always hear there is quite a bit to do here, so we're hoping to make it there!

6. Visit the Crayola Factory.
This will be a little bit of a drive, but far shorter than what it may be in the future.

7. Hershey Spa
We have a massage here already set up. Can't wait! It's super fancy...

8. Harrisburg Senators baseball game with Joey
We've been to a couple of these games, but we've never gone to the "Pups in the Park" night. Joey has been to a Washington Nationals game & loved it, so I'm sure he would love this just as much!

There are countless other things we have thought of along the way, but of course I can't think of them now.
Hopefully we can check most of these off our list if we do end up moving. We find out in a couple very long weeks...

Dreaming of warmer weather & pretty spring-like colors!
Happy Tuesday! xo

When your dog goes bonkers....

...and runs 100 miles per hour into some guy, completely wiping him out. That was the story of a nice, Saturday hike. It has been so cold, snowy & icy that we haven't gotten out of the apartment all that often. We take Joey on multiple small walks throughout the day, but that clearly hasn't been enough. This past week he ran full speed, back & forth through our apartment about 8 times, something he has never done before!

 So, we figured we should go on a hike where he is able to be off his leash & just run off all that energy. Once we got to the trail, we noticed some other people &  figured we would wait a little bit so they could get ahead of us. We waited about 10 minutes & noticed them coming back out of the woods. We talked to them for a few minutes & went on our way. Joey was already off of his leash & had run into the woods, but the next thing we know he is running like a maniac towards us & weaves through the people we had just talk to. We call to him & he starts running back, like a wild animal again, but rather than dodging the people, he just plows through this guy totally knocking his feet out from under him. It was one of those moments of shock where you don't know whether to run over to the guy or bust out laughing. It was completely embarrassing.

We hope the guy is fine. It seemed as though only his pride was bruised & most likely his ass.

Happy Wednesday to you all! :)

So Many Books, So Little Time

It doesn't seem possible that it is already the middle of February. We are still trudging through the cold and snow & it is still the perfect time to curl up with a good book. It has been a long time since I have read a book in its entirety. Not that I haven't wanted to, but simply because it is hard to find the time. I am currently working on Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl. It's funny & entertaining and I really hope to finish it in the near future.

I have listed a few books below that have caught my attention recently.

Shotgun Lovesongs

Four boyhood friends return to the small Wisconsin town they were raised in. Each has built very different lives from one another, but they have one thing in common... Beth.

You Should Have Known

A pediatric oncologist has the perfect life, but some unexpected things begin to happen & her life may not have been as perfect as she once thought it was.

A Little Something Different

This is the love story of two college students told from 14 different viewpoints.

Inside of A Dog

I am a dog lover. So, every time I go to a book store I always pick this book up, even though I know I have already looked at it 100 trillion times. It's about what dogs know & how they think & it paints the picture of what it might be like to be a dog. 

One More Thing Stores and Other Stories

From the little bit I have read of the book above, I would highly recommend it. It made me laugh out loud & the mini stories are so clever. They are all separate stories, so you could read one a day & not be lost if you miss a couple two, three or a months worth of days in between. 

Writing is definitely a talent I'm envious of, but that's besides the point...

Happy Wednesday! :)

Valentine's Day Weekend

Valentine's Day weekend has been a cold one. Perfect for endless snuggles & ridiculous amounts of coffee. We have never gone out for Valentine's Day, we've always loved making our own special dinner. Saturday morning I made a festive breakfast complete with heart shaped pancakes. We then took Joey to the dog park to run off some energy & he found his very own Valentine. She was the only other dog at the park, pretty sure it was meant to be.

Nate made the most delicious dinner. Steak, roasted sweet potatoes & red peppers, and lima beans topped with feta cheese. I made brownies topped with rasberry buttercream & chocolate chips for dessert.

We ended the night watching "The Notebook." It was such a relaxing, low key Valentine's Day.

Now we will be stuffing our faces with brownies for days & days.
Have a happy week! :)