Happy Thanksgiving!

I haven't had much time to blog this week because my parents are in town!  This is the first Thanksgiving that I am hosting, so I have been planning/shopping/cooking all week.  Much more on our time together in the near future, but until then I just wanted to say HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  I hope that everyone is enjoying this time with their families and friends.  Happy celebrating (and eating)!  

Now, back to the kitchen with my mom...

A Northeast Fall

Picture Blog Time!

moving co-pilot

new place...lots of stretch out space

New hood...The Hills

brewery tour...all those barrels are full of beer...yum.

Fall Sunset over the Hudson River

love seeing such a great couple tie the knot.

Octoberfest with friends!  fun night.

snow on halloween weekend in NYC

Brunch. A New York weekend event.

Clowning around with Frank N. Stein.

see the hanging corpse from the roof?? scary.

hidden skeletons.

on Halloween children play between windows and booths.

adorable trick or treaters...phillies player (jimmy rollins), tinkerbell, and a ninja!

our building.

Nick's favorite place in NY...3 Sheets Saloon, a philly bar.

cool window display

suburbs = buying a new man grill

suburbs = kitchen big enough to bake 50 cinnamon muffins to pair with Sam Adams Winter Lager for a sales meeting...

muffins pre cinnamon and sugar topping.  got rave reviews.

Jo Koy comedy show in NY!

Love from Jersey!

The Move.

I'm back...and I have un-earthed from the chaos of moving and all the many boxes, bags, etc!  Every minute I have free I feel like I should be unpacking or working, so I am happy to be blogging!  It was quite a move.  When we moved to NYC, our lovely parents agreed to store a lot of our furniture and belongings including most of our wedding gifts.  So we had to move things from Richmond, Delaware AND New York.

My logistical engineer of a husband and I created an itinerary that enabled us to do it in 1 weekend...one tiring weekend. 

-Thursday night: drive to Richmond
-Friday:  pick up UHaul truck, pack up our stuff at my parents, drinks with friends, dinner with family
-Saturday: drive to DC to at a friends to see their puppies and have breakfast, drive to Delaware, pack up our stuff at Nick's mom's house, drive to NJ, unload everything, and drive to NYC
-Sunday: hired movers arrive to move our couch, armoir, and mattress into our UHaul, pack up 90% of the rest of our apartment, drive to NJ and unload

new puppies are fun.

the size difference is hysterical

yoooo guys. are we done yet??

Some things went smoothly...some did not.  Nick and I took apart our couch to get it out of the apartment (the way it was moved in) and the movers could not get it out.  After being ripped and taken down to two separate pieces...it is put back together and in our new place, but may be retired soon.  Oh well...there's always something!

cole:  "this looks complicated, can't i just get some space around here?"

no couch apartment.

1/2 of it...

The rest of our moving week we spent in NY, enjoying our little apartment one last time by sleeping on an air mattress.  We had brunch with friends, went out for Halloween and then got the rest of our stuff out on Sunday & Monday.  This was the weekend it snowed in the northeast...2 feet at our new place...what a surprise!  Bedminster looked like a massive hurricane hit - beautiful trees or huge branches were down EVERYWHERE.  Every house had tree damage...worst I've ever seen.

heavy snow in October.

Halloween snowfall in NYC

Now what I must say is that the 10% we left in our apartment for 1 last load in our car turned out to be SO MUCH stuff...3 car trips...I don't know how we fit so much shit in 350 square feet.  After I was finished cleaning and everything was gone...I took one last deep breath and teared up.  Although ready to move, I was sad to leave.

empty apartment... :( 

We have been in our townhouse for 2 weeks and although we miss the city (especially at first), I do not miss our apartment because I am LOVING all our space.  It's great to have all our things in 1 place and to have space to walk around, spread stuff out, and storage space to spare!  We also really like where we are living...the neighborhood and rolling hills around us are beautiful this fall.

From NY...

to NJ...that snow is gone now...thank god.

Life according to...

Instagram.

 cozy. old fashioned pancakes.

fettuccine with shrimp and portobello. pumpkin chai.

bub's. hokies.

dog sitting. loves.

dog beach.