Nothing says “I love you” to my man more than a big plate of wings. Greg turned 39 on Friday and to celebrate I thought we could have some of his favorite foods! To make things extra special and extra hard <insert sarcasm>, I decided it would be nice to make the them myself. I landed on this recipe by The… View Post
Cheryl’s House: Part 1
We’ve been in this house for a year, and the fact it’s taken Andria and me a while to get the blog up and running has been a fabulous excuse to procrastinate on getting things all settled here in CA. I keep telling myself to wait to get Eli’s room set up until I can document it on the blog…… View Post
Big Little Lies, Weekend Plans, and Links of Note
Are any of you watching Big Little Lies on HBO? Reese Witherspoon is one of my favorite actresses/business women, so when I saw a while back she was starring in and producing a new HBO series I knew I’d need to check it out. When Seth was out of town last week I watched the first couple episodes. Totally sucks… View Post
Midwest Meets Napa Valley
Cue the theme song for the Beverly Hillbillies, just kidding! So, I turned 40 in September, and I’ll have to admit, I was dreading it! Earlier in the year, I told Greg that we had to do something fun to celebrate my birthday or I would end up being super depressed. No pressure, right? I was completely surprised when he suggested… View Post
Birthday Cakes and Mothers-in-Law
Disclaimer – bad iPhone pictures ahead! Seth’s birthday was a couple weeks ago, and the Friday before, one of his coworkers organized a surprise celebration at a local Irish watering hole (thanks, Matia!) The plan was for me and the boys to show up with a birthday cake and party hats to join in the merry making. So, I did… View Post
Mirror Update
Before we built our house 2 years ago, we visited a few models, and when we visited the model that we ended up choosing, I walked into the master bedroom and was a little confused. Not confused in a bad way, ha! I was just trying to figure out where I was when I entered the room. Basically, you walk… View Post