Holiday Projects 2015

The Holidays are here and will be gone before we know it. They really crept up on us this year, but we're ready for Santa!

I've had fun creating some holiday projects for various people in our lives. Here are some of the fun gifts I made for some special people in our lives.

Homemade Spaghetti Seasoning

(I think we have enough seasoning left to last us another 3 years.)

Wedding Menus

Fun personal menus that we hand painted for a dear friends upcoming wedding.

New Year's Tags

Fun children's gift tags for Noah and Elliot's friends. They were a huge hit!

Thanksgiving 2015

We had the pleasure of hosting our family for the first time this year for Thanksgiving. We of course ate too much, but it was so fun to plan the menu, place settings and printables. Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving.

 

 

 

Homemade & hand painted menus

 

Charcuterie display without the meat (yet).

Charcuterie with meat

Cowgirl Creamery Mt. Tam cheese. SO GOOD!

We're ready to eat!

Quick family pic

One more...

The day after Thanksgiving a few of us decided to head up to the Santa Cruz mountains to cut down a tree at a tree farm. Something I think all of us has wanted to do. It didn't end up happening but we were able to walk around downtown Santa Cruz which is something we all hadn't done in years.

I've just became aware of a coffee house called Verve which we happened to run into in Santa Cruz. It was probably the best Vanilla Latte I've ever had!

Best Vanilla Latter EVER

xoxo

 

Austin Weekend Fun

Last weekend a bunch of long-time lady friends took a weekend trip to Austin, Texas to celebrate a dear friends bachelorette party. Austin is known for it's food, music and "weirdness", hence we had a blast!

Some of us hadn't seen each other in some time, so it we had such a great time catching up. I really love these girls.

A fun neighborhood brewery. Such a great find and the beer was awesome!

Kitty painting

A Rainey Street bar

Cowgirl chic

 

The Rattle Inn

Some things just never change

Late night muchies

Shishito peppers @ Second Bar + Kitchen

Breakfast Plate @ Second Bar + Kitchen

xoxo

Kindergarten Lunchtime Favorites | Part 2

Last week I was lucky enough to volunteer at Noah's school during his lunch hour. Since I work full time it's not something I get to do often so I was really excited about it.

I'm so curious about what goes on at school during class and his lunch hour since it's so challenging to get any information out of a 5 year old. Everything is "good" or "ok".

The hubby and I will make Noah's lunch each night, however we do allow him to purchase hot lunch at school once a week. This gave me the perfect opportunity to see what his hot lunches looked like and to experience the whole lunch hour routine at school.

It was interesting to say the least.

Here are a few of Noah's recent lunches.





Next we have the school's hot lunch: Cheeseburger sliders, an apple and some type of frozen fruit slushy (Someones lunch box made it into the picture as well). He seems to like it but after looking at it, I'm 100% happy to continue making his lunch each night.

xoxo

Halloween 2015

We had such a great Halloween weekend. From parades to parties to Trick or Treating, these boys were wiped out by Sunday night.

School Halloween parade

Waiting for the parade to start

Daycare Fall Fest - Fishing for goodies

So many snacks!

 

Ready to Trick or Treat!

Our Trick or Treating gang
 

xoxo

2015 Halloween Treats & Printables

Making fun gift bags and treats is something I love to do and this Halloween was no exception.

Browsing Pinterest is my cup of tea and also my go-to website for inspiration for most of my projects. Here's what I came up with this year.

Noah's Kindergarten class treat bags - I created these fun Halloween labels on PowerPoint. They were so much fun to make. Inside each bag are kisses with tiny labels that I taped onto each kiss & plastic spider rings. I found the little kiss labels on Pinterest which led me to a website with the printable.

Elliot's Daycare treat bags - Here's another label I created myself this year for Elliot's friends at his daycare. Inside each little spider web Ziploc are pumpkin candies, candy corn, mini mazes, pumpkin erasers, kisses with mini tags, glow in the dark teeth and a spider ring.

I'm so happy today to share my printables with you for the first time. If you'd like to download either tag template, please click here for the PDF.

Happy Halloween!!

xoxo

Pacific Northwest Adventures

We just got back from another awesome trip to the Pacific Northwest. We visited some dear friends and welcomed the cooler temps outside. It was such a nice change to the heat we've been having here in the Bay Area.

We had a blast and can't wait to go back!

Elliot enjoying the flight

Elliot sleeping about 15 minutes into the flight.

Remlinger Farms family photo op

Such cuties

Love this girl. So much fun catching up.

Date night

Double date

Final destination before our flight home

The infamous gum alley

Cardah 8.0

 

xoxo