Category Archives: Holidays

NY Recap Part 1: Connor’s Graduation Party!

As promised, let’s begin our mega photo recap of the weekend with Friday night: Connor’s Graduation Party! If you remember, Connor graduated from high school last month but since there are 750 kids per grade, graduation parties are held on weekends all summer in our town! Since I was already going to be home, my parents were excited to set the date of Connor’s party for Friday night so that I could be there.  And thank goodness they did because it was such a BLAST!

Let’s get started shall we?  Here is the graduate/DJ extraordinaire himself: Connor!

This is Koda pre-party… such a happy, smiley puppy!Poor kid – I made him pose for like 943 pictures. But I needed to get a few of him with his sweet aviators. He will thank me now but I think he wanted to punch me at the time!Mom crashing the photo shoot… :)My mom and dad did an amazing job setting up the yard for the party (and of course they recruited yours truly to help but I was just manual labor).Very creative, easy, and pretty centerpieces for the tables!How crazy is it that the tent went all the way over the deck!?Connors picture boards… I should have gotten some close-ups!  There were some pretty hilarious pictures of Connor and me when we were little!ROBOTICS CHAMPION!! :)Oh, The Places You’ll Go! <3 Dr. SeussThen the party began! Connor’s friends and family filled the place up! I think he had 90 people there… WOW.My gorgeous mother who worked her butt of for the party got to finally enjoy the fruits of her labor! :)Some of Connor’s friends hanging on the hill out back :)When it got dark out, the entire place was lit with lanterns and white Christmas lights.  It was beautiful!How was this the only picture I got with “Connor” (i.e. a photo of him)?Here is attempt #1 at taking a picture with my mom… FAIL.  Koda is not having it. At least my side braid looks good! ;)Attempt #2… ruined enhanced with a kiss attack!Attempt #3… there we go!  Love you Mom! <3Koda post-party… totally exhausted.  “Let’s never do this again.”And finally, the cake (handmade by a friend of the family!).  Congratulations Connor indeed!

Independence Day Recap

Anyone else feel like today was a huge letdown after a random Wednesday off yesterday? Getting back to real life today was like pulling teeth.  So let’s reminisce about the good-old-days (i.e. yesterday) with a few pictures!

Gorgeous little garden table!

Happy Birthday America! :)

Red, White, and Blue Cheers!
Please disregard the almost-dead lime tree in the background.

My man got me flowers a couple of days ago but I wanted to share them anyway!

Did I ever mention that I am a secret pie genius?
P.S. I made this a couple days ago but we enjoyed the last few pieces yesterday so it counts toward today’s photos!

We had a small view of the fireworks from our yard. But this was the best pic I could manage. Oh well!

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday!  Now back to the grind…

Something Red, Something White, and Something Blue

Happy Independence Day! I hope you are all out celebrating and enjoying a much-deserved day off.  Our plans are pretty low-key today… brunch, party, and perhaps fireworks!

Alright, so we are going to take a little creative leeway with the title but in the spirit of the day, I am going to give it my best shot! Even though the subject of this post is not even remotely related to the holiday, I at least tried to color theme it for you.  Let’s start with something red!

RED: About a year ago, Walker and I were walking through Urban Home and saw this awesome red clock in the window display.  I tore the place apart looking for one only to find out it wasn’t in stock and that the salesperson hadn’t seen any new ones come in for months.  Walker later told me that he went online to order it for me as a surprise but it wasn’t available.  Eventually the listing for the clock even came off of the website.

Fast forward a year… Walker and I were seeing a movie on Sunday afternoon and had a little time to kill beforehand (I love you ArcLight… assigned movie seating was the best invention this century). We decided to wander through Urban Home and all of the sudden Walker points out a shelf with 5 of the red clocks!  I was so excited!!  So after the movie, I snagged one of these bad boys for only $9.99.  We have never had a clock in our living room so we were so happy to finally fill the void.  It joined the ranks of our mishmash wall where Jordan used to hang out.  But not to worry Jordan fans, Michael simply relocated to the other side of the doorway.

BLUE: Another fun stop we made on Sunday was to World Market (I managed to force Walker into going to two home stores in one day… I was really pushing my luck!).  We stocked up on a bunch of little colorful jars for spice and food storage.  One happens to be blue.  One was also red!  And we completed the trio with a fresh (white) sea salt grinder (and its peppery partner).  We are on a jars kick and are hoping that a future kitchen revamp will let us display our strange assortment.  More on that later!

WHITE: Last but not least, something white.  I could have cheated and used the salt grinder but I wanted to do something a little more special. It was a really important week for me and I have some very exciting things in my home-blog-related future!  I really can’t go into any more detail than that quite yet but I will leave you with a small clue. I’m so mysterious! ;)

 

Happy 4th!  Stay safe and have fun! xoxo