Weekend Recap

Yay for Monday! I'm looking forward to a short 3 day week and heading up to Bakersfield to spend time with my family for Thanksgiving.  We had a great weekend and got a few big items checked off my to do list. 

 

Friday we had Thanksgiving potluck in my office!  I didn't take a picture of my plate, but let's just say I cheated a little.  My party potatoes turned out great and were a bit hit! :)  They were super easy to make also.  I'm excited to have them again on Thursday... !

 

Saturday morning we woke up and both went to work out.  I headed to barre at 9:45 and Jeff headed to his morning HIT class that he has been going to on Saturday mornings at Equinox.  Then I picked up nekter for us.  We have been obsessed with the Tropical Acai bowls there for years now and now I have to get a Health Nut with almond butter every time. SO GOOD.  We headed to Irvine to look at cars for him since his lease is up in January.  It's something that I have really been wanting to get taken care of since the holidays get so hectic with us traveling.  Well, 6 hours later, he came out with a new whip!  He ended up getting a black Camry sport.  I think it's pretty nice and he really likes it!  We got a great deal on it thanks to his aunt working at the Toyota corporate in NYC!  We drove back home and picked up pizza and beer to celebrate :)

 

 

On Sunday I slept in until 10:45!  I woke up just in time to catch some of the Cowboys game with Jeff. He is so superstitious that he barely watched the game because he said that they were doing better when he was on a different channel.  Weirdo.  But at least they won (finally)!

 

I got a ton of stuff done around the house and we are planning on packing tomorrow night and hopefully heading up to Bako Wednesday night- depending on whether the grape vine is open!  I hope it is!   If not, we will have to battle even more traffic by driving on Thanksgiving day.

 

Have a great week!

 

5 on Friday -- Thanksgiving Edition

It's the last Friday before Thanksgiving! Although I am a bit partial to Christmas (it's an argument every year as to when it is okay to put up the tree), I want to savor Thanksgiving this year & family time, especially since Jeff and I will be spending Christmas in New Jersey with his family!  Here's my 5 things on Thanksgiving :)

 

-ONE-

Thankful Placemats

 

Target does it again with the most adorable Thankful placemats by Threshold.  They are currently 20% off too- which makes them only $3.99 each!  Love these.

-TWO-

 Always a good reminder. :)

 

-THREE-

Party Potatoes!

I'm not a HUGE fan of Thanksgiving food, but this is my FAVORITE!! My mom makes it every year and I found a really similar recipe (linked above).  I'm making it for my office Thanksgiving potluck tomorrow and will most likely have a plate full of potatoes. :)  The only difference between my recipe and the one I liked is that I use cream of chicken soup in lieu of the cream of mushroom.  Needless to say, tomorrow is going to be a pretty big cheat day for me.

 

-FOUR-

I use this centerpiece for every holiday!  For Easter, I fill it with plastic eggs, Christmas with pine cones, etc.  I love this filling that I found at HomeGoods (of course).  I've had it in for a while now, since it works well for Halloween too!  Although I'm excited to change it out for my Christmas cones, I love the fall look for now!

 

-FIVE-

I can't bring up Thanksgiving without at least mentioning Black Friday!  I'm not much of a black Friday shopper myself- not one of those traditions or things that I enjoy around the holidays.  HOWEVER, I really want a nice camera.  My mom has a Canon Rebel and this is the one I have been eyeing.  I'm not sure if I need one this nice, or should just get a $150-$200 one. I find myself using my phone all the time and it's great, mostly because I always have it.  But I want to start taking pictures on a good camera.  I know that Amazon will most likely have some great Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales going on.  That way I won't have to actual deal with the people.  I've never done it before and I'm not quite sure that I want to!

 

Have a great Thanksgiving!!! #thankful

 



Weekend Recap

I had a great weekend in Bakersfield with my family!  Friday afternoon we found out that my sister is having another girl!  (I knew it;)

She is excited to have a little sister, but I'm not positive that she fully understands what is going on.  I just ordered her this book that was recommended to me by a friend.  I think I'll save it for Christmas!

I ended up leaving a bit later than planned, around 7:30am on Saturday morning.  I met my mom at Stockdale CC for the first event where I helped her run her My3Angels booth.  It went well, however the turnout wasn't as great as planned.  My dad met us for dinner and we went over to my Aunt Chrissy's for a bit after to discuss my shower plans!  We had an amazing dinner at Café Med.

Sunday morning we woke up, went to church and heading to Seven Oaks for their annual Christmas event.  The turnout was much better and we had an amazing day!  I also found the cutest dress for my bachelorette party.  A friend of mine from elementary school opened up her own store about a year ago and they were at the event as well.  We sold a lot of blankets and had a great time!

To visit my mom's website, click here!  I drove home right after the event and was exhausted, but happy to see Jeff. :)  Can't wait to start getting everything ready for another baby girl!

XO
Nicci

Small update!

I can't believe that I have not posted in almost a year!  So bad on my end- as I had promised myself I would keep all of my wedding planning documented here.  And now I am recommitting myself as keeping this up and updating on a regular basis so I can have a place to keep all of these sweet memories! 

Although many memories have been missed, not much has majorly changed in our lives since February.  We made a trip back to New Jersey & Jeff's family's house in Chincoteague, VA in August and had an amazing time.  We have spent a lot of time with my family at their beach house in Cayucos ( a tiny AMAZING little town on the central coast ).  We are STILL engaged :)  and planning is moving along smoothly!  

I'm heading up to Bakersfield tomorrow to help my mom at a few different Christmas shows and am excited to see Tatum.  I guess that brings me to one big thing that has changed- Stevi is pregnant and is finding out the gender of the baby at her appointment in about half an hour here!  I'm seriously freaking out.  I guess I will have to post that in my next SOON update :)

XO
Nicci