Today was a busy day! We sent out our invitation for a Minnesota Bloggers' event. Kristin was busy at a wine tasting panel at Annapolis' Great Grapes Wine, Art & Food Festival. I was in the home office pulling together as many emails as I could to send out our evites. Our invitations for another BlogLove™ event have gone out. This event is happening in Minnesota! Kristin and family will be making yet another road-trip to visit our family as well as be here in Minnesota to host the event with me! We held our … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2010
Fancy Friday Purses
By on July 23, 2010 with
Every Friday we like to cover what we feel is fancy on our Fancy Friday posts! And, we invite you to join the conversation by commenting or by grabbing our badge and linking your Fancy Friday post on whatever that particular week's theme is at the bottom of our Fancy Friday post! This Friday the theme is purses! We got our inspiration this week from Devra, who we met at Momz Share. She is the co-author of Parentopia, and her latest post is called, "What's In Your Purse? What's In Your Man Bag?" Well, this is … [Read more...]
Fancy Friday~Purse Stories!
By on July 22, 2010 with
Fancy Friday is tomorrow!! Link up tomorrow and show off your fancy bags!! We're looking forward to hearing your story!! The directions to our Fancy Friday blog party are here. … [Read more...]
Great Grapes Wine, Arts and Food Festival
By on July 19, 2010 with
This coming weekend, July 24 and 25, there is a fabulous festival coming to Annapolis! The Great Grapes Wine, Arts and Food Festival is an event that encourages families to come out and enjoy a day of tasting organic food straight from the farm, sipping wine and beer and listening to local musicians like The Kelly Bell Band and Junkyard Saints. There will be over 300 international wines to sample and for the beer lovers, over 40 international brews to taste. If you bring your kids, there will be a playground where your kids … [Read more...]
Fancy Friday Antiques
By on July 16, 2010 with
Fancy Friday Antiques is here! It's time to share our well worn treasures!! Many of us like antiques and vintage things because something old often has a story that goes with it. Something old has been loved, worn, survived, and aged with a patina that shows it has lived a well used life. These are some of my aged and well-loved things in my home and some of their stories. This picture is of my husband's Great Grandfather. He was a missionary and a minister. This picture is dated: New York 1905. It is often a … [Read more...]
Grilled Lettuce After The Long Trail
By on July 12, 2010 with
There are some things that would be fairly difficult for our suburban family to experience if were not for the fact that my husband's sister and husband and their kids, live in Colorado. My husband and I, together with our kids get to experience and see some things that are pretty amazing thanks to them. The picture above is all 10 of us four wheeling on the Grand Mesa. The trail was fairly rugged, over boulders, small rivers and rocks, and up and down hill. We all lived. Nobody fell off a cliff. That's why it's so dang, … [Read more...]
Trip to American Girl Doll Cafe NYC
By on July 11, 2010 with
My daughter, Teapot and her bff, Anni, wanted desperately to celebrate their birthdays at the American Girl Place in New York City. We decided to do the day up! So, bff's mom, made reservations to the American Girl Cafe and we invited the grandmoms! We arrived at seating time and waited behind the ropes with a couple dozen giddy and excited girls! The tension was rising! As we were escorted into the American Girl Cafe, it was like walking into a life size doll house restaurant. There were American Girl Dolls lined up … [Read more...]
Fancy Friday Be Yourself
By on July 9, 2010 with
"The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in awhile and watch your answers change." ~Richard Bach Where we love is home-home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." ~Oliver Wendell Homes Maya Angelou~ "I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself." "Close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And, think to yourself, there's no place like … [Read more...]
Prairie Dogs & French Crepes
By on July 7, 2010 with
Shooting prairie dogs and eating French Crepes for breakfast is not typically the way we roll in suburbia. Well the French Crepes part, probably. But shooting prairie dogs before breakfast? Only on our Colorado vacation. Once a year my family takes a road trip in the minivan to visit my husband's sister and family. We leave our home in the suburbs of Minneapolis, my husband leaves behind his corporate job and our kids their video games, soccer and friends. As we wind down the road we let go of the city life, catch up, and … [Read more...]
