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A Photo Every Hour: Snow Day!

Here’s what I did on my (wonderful, but hopefully last) snow day…image7AM: Coffee.image_18AM: Multigrain waffles (recipe coming soon!)image_139AM: Before//after. Rearranged our bookshelf.image_1110AM: Before//after. In the organization MODE. Closet: tackled.image_211AM: Stop to smell the flowers.image_412PM: Mediterranean chickpea salad(ish) for lunch.image_61PM: Curl up with a good read.image_52PM: Stop to admire my bunting handiwork. Ponder the fluffiness of our bed. Naptime!image_93PM: Pretend to write a paper for class.image_34PM: Yoga.image_85PM: Flourless peanut butter cookies (also coming soon!)image_76PM: Raiiiiin (ice?) go awaaay.image_127-8PM: Roasted acorn squash and kale chips for dinner//Mike comes home!image_109PM: Brew some sleepytime tea. Set alarm for sooo earlyyyy. Cozy up in bed. Goodnight!

 

NYC!

image11This past weekend Mike and I headed to NYC to hang with some of our favorite college peeps, and as always, it was a whirlwind weekend of food, friends, and FUN! We spent all day Saturday boppin’ around the city looking for the most delicious eats with my bestie Alix – we went to Doughnut Plant (finally!), Balthazar Bakery (felt JUST like Paris), Rice to Riches (graham cracker rice pudding FTW), and Momofuku Milk Bar (All. Everything.) Fooooood comaaaaa.

On Saturday night we went to a friend’s engagement party then to a Cornell young alumni event at the Bowery Hotel, which meant getting all fancy and catching up with so many people we hadn’t seen since college! On Sunday, we hit up Artichoke for the YUMMIEST pizza – they make a pizza with spinach and artichoke dip baked on top. It is ev-a-ree-thang and more. We took a nice long walk back (and obvi stopped for bagels) to Alix’s apartment before heading to our bus back to Boston. I love wandering around the city and just taking it all in; it’s my favorite way to explore!

More NYC visits, friends! MORE!

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Boston in the Golden Hour

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There’s a magical hour right before sunset where the world looks extra perfect & beautiful and you have to take 100,000 photos of everything because it might never look that beautiful ever again. After last week’s Cambridge eating tour (400 miles + 400,000 calories)*, Mike and I walked across the Salt ‘n Peppa bridge, down Charles street, and into the Boston Common. We stopped for some hot chocolate to warm up, then ventured out to walk on the frozen swan pond (is that what we call it? Swan Boat Pond? Public Garden Lake? Body of water inside the Public Garden where the swans live?? Do you know what I mean???), feeling like a couple of BAMFs. Then we headed back down Commonwealth Ave to catch the T just as the twinkly tree lights were turning on. MAGIC, I tell ya.

*Only exaggerating by a factor of 100.

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Blizzard Bonanza

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NEMO!!! Love ya to pieces.

Disclaimer: I don’t have a car or house to shovel out and wasn’t affected by power outages or transportation delays (perks of being on a school snow day schedule) so to me blizzard = play time. Major playtime.

Mike and I headed out Friday night in the height of the blizzard to hang with my old roomies (perks of having besties two blocks away) and almost became insta-snowpeople. Observe:

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On Saturday we (I) made Nemo pancakes because HOW COULDN’T I, then we bundled up and hopped into our cross-country skis to ski around the ‘hood. Cross-country skiing is HARD, yo. I was sweating like a wildebeest and almost-crying but eventually channeled my inner snow bunny and got the hang of it. We dropped our skis off at home and hippity-hopped around town, took 1,000 photos, and came home to eat Kraft mac and cheese and drink hot cocoa. It was wonderful :)

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I asked Mike if he had any spare gloves I could wear. This is what he presented me with…

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Weekend Happenings

DSC_1323Hooray! It’s already Tuesday! Three day weekends are whaaaatttt’s UP.

Here’s our weekend, in photos…

image (1)|Cornell alumni conference in Boston this weekend. Hey Ezra!|

PicMonkey Collage|Happy Birthday, Mike! Despite the 55 sparklers, we didn’t burn the building down! Don’t tell our landlord this happened!|

image (1)|Yellow birthday cake with milk chocolate frosting from the Flour cookbook|

IMG_6494|Copley Square|

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IMG_6496|Favorite brunch spot|

DSC_1278|Paris? Boston? PARIS.|

DSC_1321|Pink tea|

IMG_6500|Artsy|

IMG_6497|Spiced raspberry shortbread|

IMG_6498|Fresh grapefruit juice|

IMG_6499|We’re hoping they start recognizing us as regulars soon|

IMG_6501|South End love|

IMG_6502|Discovered Siena Farms South End. Adorable little shop with tons of local food & produce!|

IMG_6486|Warming up with hot cocoa from The Buttery|

IMG_6487|Credit to Mike the paparazzo|

IMG_6491|Flour Back Bay. We saw Joanne Chang!|

IMG_6489|One of each, please|

IMG_6492|Free day at the MFA|

DSC_0034|Mario Testino. So glad to have caught this exhibit before it left Boston!|

DSC_0043|Creepy flying people|

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How was your weekend? Anyone else wishing today was a snow day?

Thanksgiving Weekend

Hi friends! I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving. I was home in upstate NY for a few days – here are some pictures from my turkey-pie-family-filled weekend!

I. Am. Moving. Into. This. Kitchen. BE MIIIIIIINE.

My brother looks like a hoodlum and my dad is being “MomDad the Two-Headed Parent”. Can’t take us anywhere.

Fa la la la la, la la la la! Christmas season is here!!

Bring on the Christmas cookies!

 

 

I LOVE FALL: Vermont Edition

Apparently this year I made it my goal to experience fall in as much of New England as possible. Last weekend Mike and I headed up to Stowe, VT with our friends Liz and Dave for some autumn fun; we spent Saturday poking around Burlington (hello, Ithaca NY on crack!), where we stumbled upon the BEST farmer’s market (complete with thousands of samples, a pumpkin sweet potato fritter, hippie children dancing, and a morbidly obese bulldog being pulled around in a wagon) and hit up the Magic Hat Brewery. On Sunday we explored the uber-creepy Smuggler’s notch, then went to Cabot (FREE CHEESE), a perfectly Vermont cider mill (pictured above), and Ben and Jerry’s! A trip full of foliage and eating, just how I like it :)

(Sorry, Liz, about that spot of sunshine you are birthing)

{photo credit to Liz!}

If you can figure out what’s going on in this picture I’ll give you a prize.

 

 

I LOVE FALL: New Hampshire Edition

Have I ever mentioned that I love taking pictures of foliage/pumpkins/gourds/leaves/trees/sunrises/fall things? Ever? No?

Well then YOU’RE in for a surprise!

Last weekend I got to tag along on Mike’s firm’s fall outing in Meredith, NH. We had the cutest room with the cutest little balcony for watching the sunrise over the lake, found a lunch place with deeeelicious butternut squash-apple-bacon bisque, and spent Saturday afternoon driving around looking for all the best fall photo ops (covered bridge and pumpkin farm included). We also managed to snag some cider donuts straight from the fryer and make friends with a giant pig named Munchkin. All in all another perfect fall weekend!

 

Life These Days {Part 2}

{Sunset over the slope at Cornell}

Here are a few more photos from our upstate NY adventures. Please excuse the 100 animal photos…it’s Wildlife Wednesday???

{Toad friend we found outside my grandparents cabin in the Adirondacks. Photo credit to Mike!}

{Hummingbird at the feeder. Kudos to Mike (again! Wildlife photographer extraordinaire!) for this shot}

{Grandparents’ cabin, but we call it “camp”. I think this an upstate NY/Maine thing? Either way, most relaxing place in.the.WORLD.}

{Archway at Cornell}

{Inside the Cornell war memorial. Mhmm I love my old school yes I do!}

{Big sister/little sister Cornellians. Go Emily GO!}

{Clock tower}

{Last Cornell one. Swear.}

{The definition of upstate NY. Please note the two cows in the back are MOOOOOing at me.}

{Mike and I at the sailing club on Otsego Lake}

{Twilight on Otsego Lake, Cooperstown}

{I apologize that this is blurry and out-of-focus but UM…this is the night sky at home. Look at all those STARS!!}

It’s official: I’m never coming back to Boston. It’s too pretty here.

(Except that I am. Seeya Saturday!)

Life These Days {Part 1}

Hello from upstate NY!! Life these days has consisted of 10AM wake-up calls, daily ice cream cones, nature walks, and zero obligations.

It.

Is.

Glorious.

I’ve been soaking up every moment of family and fun, but I *am* looking forward to getting back to Boston and on some sort of real-life schedule at the end of this week.

Until then…more ice cream, please.

{Jersey shore sunset}

{Colorful Adirondack chairs in Clayton, NY}

{Vintage signs in Clayton, NY}

{Monarchs everywhere!}

{Giant windmills}

{Upstate farmland}

{Playing in the river like 10-year-olds}

{Picture perfect pond}

{Stole adopted someone’s dog for the afternoon}

{Can we keep him????}

Great news! As you’re reading this…I’M FINALLY BAKING SOMETHING. One month without recipes is toooo long. Expect a recipe coming your way in the near future :)

Pssstt…what do we think of these photo posts? Do you like them?