Christmas, New Years, Wine Tasting and a Wedding 2015

Time really does go by so fast. It's already January and I can't believe we're now in 2016.

We had so much fun during the Holidays spending time with family and friends. Lots of day trips throughout the Bay Area and time spent with loved ones.

We stood in line waiting to see Santa for over 2 1/2 hours. This may be the last picture with him I'm afraid.

Noah asked if he was the real Santa and Santa said, "well touch my beard. Is it real?" Noah touch his "real" beard and bless his little heart still believes for at least 1 more year if not 10 more. Love that kid!



 

We spent Christmas morning at our place, just the 4 of us, opening presents and then went to Dana & Bart's house for their 2nd annual Christmas dinner.

A few of our Christmas appetizers. Cheese tags download available. Just send me an email.

The beautiful Christmas table setting. Menu template available. Just shoot me an email.

2015 Kandah Christmas Pic

Sibling Pic

The following Monday after Christmas we all went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. After braving the crowds for an hour we thought it best to leave and grab some lunch. #nevergoduringtheholidays

Sitting under the waves. They thought it was hilarious.

Wine Tasting Play Date | We were invited to go wine tasting with some friends at a local winery we'd never visited before. It is such a beautiful property and there were so many amazing photo backdrops.

Silly boys

We spent New Years Eve with family this year and it's our first year in a LONG time we've actually celebrated at midnight and not 9pm. We had a blast and some very gracious hosts!

New Years Eve family photo. #elmoslippersaremakingacomeback

 

Gavia/Stahlke Wedding | When your menu cards are used at your dear friends wedding. AHHH!! SO COOL! The ceremony was so sweet. I think that's the most I've cried at any wedding.

 

The reception was held at Trione Winery which is a beautiful property in Geyserville.  It was so much fun! We even made a music video! I can't wait to see it.

 

So happy for the newlyweds.

 

 

Prom pics?

xoxo

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