My brother-in-law and his sweet new girlfriend, Anuja, were in town visiting from NYC last week. Since they’re footloose and fancy free, they ran off to San Diego for a couple days and then stayed one night in Santa Monica before catching their early morning flight out on Sunday. We went and hung out at [...]
Root Beer floats are so {summer} to me. Soft scoops of vanilla bean ice cream floating in root beer. Or Coke. Or even Diet Coke. Jay and my dad had one at Disneyland and I knew I wanted to make them at home. I like to serve them in the 8 ounce jelly jars ~ [...]
Do you ever stand in an aisle of the grocery store overwhelmed by the choices? 20 different varieties of barbecue sauce to choose from. Chunky peanut butter. Creamy peanut butter. Peanut butter with honey. Reduced fat peanut butter. All natural peanut butter. Peanut butter and jelly in the same jar. And how many choices of [...]
I love buffalo chicken anything. Yes, I do love going to Hooter’s for some HOT boneless buffalo wings, fried pickles and a cold beer or two. Julie instagrammed a Papa John’s buffalo chicken pizza one evening and I immediately knew a large flat box housing one of these would make it’s way through our front door [...]
Growing up we had a lot of little neighborhoods popping up in our community. We would wander through the model homes on the weekends and I always remember thinking and asking my parents, “Why can’t our house look like a model home?” My mom and dad would laugh and say, “It’s because we LIVE in [...]
Did you know there’s an app for making really good friends? Yes, it’s called Instagram! Just by posting pictures and sharing fun little tidbits of your daily life on IG, you can {meet} some wonderful friends. And if you’re really lucky and live close enough, you can even eventually meet them in person. It’s crazy [...]
I decided that July was going to be dedicated to focusing on health….mainly mine. I needed to step up my fitness goals and revamp my/our eating habits a little despite the fact that it’s summer, HOT and all that sounds good is eating out and having ice cream on a daily basis. Just because we [...]
Lately I am obsessed with gallery walls. I’ve mentioned our WHITE walls here a million times, but I’m actually not minding them as much when I hang clusters of pictures, artwork and whatnot on them and create a little gallery. I’m in the process of doing one in Elliott’s room with some vintage plates, a [...]
This year we’re attempting a more healthified Fourth of July. Lately I’ve been feeling a little {off} and am hoping that dedicating July to establishing a healthier lifestyle will alleviate some feelings and anxiety I’ve been having about my well being lately. I have decided to bow out of a Cupcake Wars that I was [...]
