fallicious landscapes

since fall is pretty much on its last leg here in the northeast i thought i'd post these awesome fall lanscapes from last weekend taken by beck.

crazy life

don't worry i didn't disappear again. it's just my life has been such a whirlwind this past month that i haven't had time to take a minute for myself!!! quick update, in the past 30 days i have:

• been to 1 wedding shower
• gone to 2 bachelorette parties
• went to a graduation party, Sean's brother graduated high school!
  
• also the actual graduation was attended
  
• a private art showing
• a bridesmaids dress was accidentally donated, a very good match was found on ebay, also holding on to a match 10 sizes to big currently, every nordstrom was searched and all the goodwills
• one of my very good friends had a baby (he's the first little guy of the group), so beautiful - his name is william glenn, june 9th, 8lbs 5ozs
• created the 80 page ad book for the very last Jack's 5k, realized that the fact this is the last one is really, really hard
• been to a wedding in ellicottville - sooooo pretty
• sold my first listing!
• started to put up our fence
• got my second listing!
  
• father's day parties at my parents and sean's parents
• cocktail party for friends who are getting married in week
• missed a real estate class - opps!
  
• finally hit 2.5 miles running - tomorrow i will be doing 3 at the race!
• said farewell to one of my closest friends who got an awesome job in chicago
• worked my butt off
• got all the rest of the wedding flowers
• went to see dave matthews on darien lake - too bad it was like fall out
• finished and mailed out our save the dates
  
• aaaaaand something that feels like a million, zillion other things...

as i typed this i realized i have tons of pictures of these things...those will be coming soon!

tonight: finally had some me time, watched 27 dresses with my mom and sean (yes that is how much he loves me). it was sooooo cute. LOVE the benny & the jetts scene - totally makes the movie!

weekend in review

• yes it's wednesday, and weekend in review blogs should probably be on monday. but oh well.

• friday: happy hour and dinner out for my friend liz (liz is on the right in the photo below) who is moving to chicago this weekend. she got an awesome job working for kerri foods, so we are proud of her! but we are still sad she is leaving. i am working on convincing her to start a blog.... while we were there we ate some delicious nachos (below), and had a lot of good laughs, note below: chris stole some steak from lauren's salad and then dropped it in his beer...
• saturday: worked in the morning, a little design then some real estate. then sean and i cleaned our house like crazy in preparation for our little party. lauren graduated from law school on saturday! and we had a small gathering at our house, liz (resident pastry chef) made creme brulee and we played beer pong on our front lawn...classy. we had other tasty foods including some hummus, brownies, veggies and dip and some home made salsa that i made.
• sunday: i held an open house, it was so dreary and only 5 groups came, good thing i brought my book because they all showed up in the last half hour.
  

• i just finshed book #3 in the janet evanovich, stephanie plum series - such chick lit. i love it!
• sunday afternoon we painted the walls in our hall, we still have to do the trim and hang the light so photos then!

• homemade salsa recipe:
• 3 large tomatoes
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1/3rd of a medium size red onion
• 1 tbsp of lemon juice
• half of a medium sized hot pepper (your choice depending on how much heat you like, mine was pretty mild)
• chop everything and mix together, make sure to take the seeds out of the pepper first unless you want a ton of kick, i didn't have my food processor so mine was more of a chopped salsa, but you can zap it in the food processor a couple of seconds!
  

whew - we had a busy weekend. this upcoming weekend should be even more insane...