Back from France!

Bonjour mes amis! Nick and I are back from the most wonderful 10 days in France! We had amazing food and wine, saw wonderful sites, beautiful countryside and had great weather! I didn't want to leave, but it always feels great coming home.

I can't wait to catch up on blogs, comments and post my pictures - once I get over my jet lag!

Eiffel Tower

Biking along the Rhone River in Provence

Sisterhood of the traveling Coach diaper bag

I know this seems like a weird post, but there is a fun story behind this bag. This diaper bag has some serious passport stamps, here is the story:

Our junior year of college (we were at separate colleges) one of my best friends, Meghan, went to study abroad in Florence, Italy for the year and her mom bought her this Coach diaper bag as a good overall travel bag. Since its a diaper bag, it has a lot of great little pockets to store lots of things. In her year there, it went all over Europe and to Thailand.

Then, our senior year, I studied abroad in Rome, and Meghan let me borrow the diaper bag for my travels where the bag wen around Europe and Italy again.

The next year, Meghan took it to Italy to visit her sister to China and Hong Kong for work, and now, she is returning to France with me!!

This diaper has some serious mileage and thank you to Meghan for letting me take her on my travels - again!!

Vatican City

posing in typical tourist fashion

hanging out at some Roman ruins

Fall weekend in the park

On Sunday we had a lovely fall day in Seattle so Nick and I took advantage of it and took a walk in the Washington Park Arboretum. I love all these beautiful colors of the season!

Husky stadium!

Halloween weekend recap

Ok, first of all, where did November come from?! Secondly, hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween weekend. My was busy and fun!

The majority of the weekend was spend running around doing errands, but we carved a little time out to hang out for Halloween at our friend Eric and Nicole's house in Ballard.

Mardi Gras Queen, devil, flapper, baby, pro golfer

300 The Movie

pro golfer Carol

White Wizard Nick

Nicole's little bumble bee Callie

On Sunday, my parents took Nick and I out to a "Bon Voyage" brunch before we head out for France! So we had a great morning eating and hanging out with them, thanks mom and dad!!

And then that evening, we had an ADPi corporation board dinner at Daniel's, a wonderful steak restaurant. I've really enjoyed being on corp board for the past year, and am looking forward to more years of volunteering on the board in the future!

Dinner was so so yummy and Nick was the lucky recipient of my leftovers!

Hope everyone had a great weekend and I'm excited to see everyone's Halloween costume!

Five things tag

Thank you so much to one of my favorite bloggers, Ashley, for her tag earlier this week! Answer 5 questions with 5 answers...





1. What were you doing 10 years ago?

-I was 15 and a sophomore in high school
-I was taking tennis lessons, getting ready for tryouts in the spring (we had an amazing team)
-We recently had homecoming week where we dressed up as a different theme each each day
-Getting ready for Hawaii spring break
-Taking French


2. What are 5 things on your To Do list today?

-laundry (always)
-clean (Nick is like super clean, so its never really a lot)
-make a packing list for Paris
-do a blog post (check!)
-make a salad to bring over to Meghan (she had me over for dinner, thanks Meghan!)


3. Snacks you enjoy?

-fruit
-veggies or pita with my homemade hummus
-cheese and crackers
-roasted almonds
-anything savory!


4. Where are 5 places you have lived?

I have always lived in Washington state, so I'll really have to break it down more:

-parents house
-sorority
-study abroad in Rome
-apartment with Meghan after college
-current location!


5. What are 5 things you would do if you were a billionaire?

-Travel the world on The World (check out this awesome boat!)
-Put away money for our future
-Buy awesome presents for our family and friends
-Help other people less fortunate
-Be friends with Oprah (I assume we would be in the same circle if I was a billionaire)


Thanks again Ashley and check out her awesome blog if you haven't already done so! And happy Halloween weekend everyone!

Wishful Wednesday: costume

'I wish' .... I was six years old and going trick or treating, and my costume would be a puffy panda!

How cute is this costume from Pottery Barn Kids?! And the hat would totally keep me warm too! Nothing is worse than going door-to-door when you are cold.

And I would have Nick be the puffy alligator!


Head on over to Kelsey's site, The Seattle Smiths to add your costume!

images: Pottery Barn Kids

Husky Homecoming

Even though we lost our homecoming game to the Oregon Ducks, we had lots of fun before the game!

my shirt!

tailgating buddies for the season, we have had some early mornings together

duck hunters (University of Oregon's mascot is the duck)

Jessica, me, Ashley, Erin and Heather

And I have a yummy recipe to pass along: Tyler's ultimate enchiladas! They are so good, fairly easy to make and this is some of the best salsa verde I've ever had! Check it out!

I also have some random pictures I had to post. They are of my parents cat, Missy, sleeping on Nick's lap. She loves him so much!

"no more pictures papparazi!"

Pumpkin carving results

On Friday Brooke and Daniel hosted a pumpkin carving party and I still have a long was to go until I'm Martha, but I have to say, the pumpkin ended up pretty good!

Brooke and I with our masterpieces

the final product, I had to Sharpie a face though

working hard

Nick and his pumpkin

Pumpkin carving

Tonight Nick and I are going to a pumpkin carving party at our friends Brooke and Daniel's house. Brooke is my Martha Stewart partner-in-crime so I decided to pull some inspiration from her site. I have no idea how these will turn out, but we will give it a shot!






Happy Friday everyone!!

images: Martha Stewart