Weekend Happenings

Wow, so nice to have so many days off in a row, and with Kurt no less!  He got home Wednesday night, and I made a lovely, cozy dinner at home with filets, fingerling potatoes and broccolini coupled with a great bottle of vino.  It was the perfect kick-off to the weekend and we got to just sit in our toasty apartment and catch up on life!

Thursday morning we made a new pancake recipe (with sour cream, yum!) and leisured over breakfast before getting a coffee at Starbucks and planning the day.  I made a delicious cranberry upside-down cake, which will be posted to Dreamy Dish soon (and is unbelievably recommended)!  Thanksgiving evening we had a really great turkey dinner at Heirloom.  We started with a couple glasses of Prosecco, followed by a huge bowl of lobster bisque.  Then our turkey dinner arrived, and as I looked down at my plate and saw all the turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes, harticots verts, stuffing and cranberry sauce, I said aloud, “Whoa, this would have taken me 8 hours to cook!”.  What with all the delicious food, Prosecco, red wine and dessert, I may never cook a holiday meal again!

Here’s me in our lobby, headed to Heirloom (I’m looking quite Thanksgiving-y, no?):

and here’s us, at dinner!

We got home from Heirloom and was in such a food coma that literally at 7pm we were both ready to pass out!  In fact, I think Kurt did pass out for a spell.

Friday we actually hit the stores for Black Friday sales.  We intended to get up at 7am, but then thought better of it and went back to bed until 9.  Ahh, sleep.  We went to Target, which probably had the best sales of any, but all in all it was rather understated and disappointing.  We did get a few people checked off the list though, so hey, we’ll take progress where we can get it.

Speaking of progress, we came home from shopping yesterday and ordered our save-the-dates!  We love them and I can’t wait for them to arrive! We ordered them from Wedding Paper Divas – love that site!  After such a triumphant day, what with all the checking stuff off the wedding list and all, we ordered in Thai food and watched Christmas Vacation.  Perfect.

Since we’re obviously on a roll here, we decided to register at Crate & Barrel today, which was so fun!  Kurt of course was super excited about using the scanner.  Boys!

Tomorrow we’re off to get our Christmas tree from Jones Family Farm!  We’re going to do a little decorating tonight, and then finish up tomorrow.  I adore Christmas.

Hope you’re enjoying your weekend, too!
xoxo j.