all the pretty colors!



Light pink?

light blue?

light yellow?

BRIGHT yellow?

a plain creamy white?

or green OH SO bright!?

(top photo from winifredStudios at Etsy)
I just entered a contest at the Pioneer Woman’s Tasty Kitchen blog…. all I had to do was enter my favorite ice cream flavor and I’m in the drawing to win a KitchenAid mixer!! The options for colors aren’t as playful as my picks, but who gives! Imagine what all the tasty things I could make with one! Oh, let the girl dream…..

Stratton Sundays.

It’s Monday morning and I’m still on a skiing high from my day at Stratton Mountain, VT yesterday. It was a blast! This year I got the Stratton Sunday pass, which means every Sunday I will be heading north to the mountains of Vermont to strap on my skis and pretend I am Picabo Street. Whoo! One reason I am so in love with Stratton is because it’s where I learned to ski so many years ago. Ah the memories. Back in elementary school my family used to head up to VT on February break, stay at my great-aunt Barbara’s condo (RIGHT next to the mountain!), take ski lessons and enjoy the ski-side village. While at Stratton yesterday I got a chance to walk through the village and it was exactly the same as I remembered it…. just seemed a little bit smaller (isn’t it funny how that happens when you get older?). Glorious. The skiing is amazing too– they have so many lifts and trails, plus they have great snow! I’m told it resembles the ski mountains out west… hopefully I will get out there someday to experience western skiing for myself!
Here’s a map of the mountain:
Check out the snow on the trees!
Here’s the resort’s village…almost feels like you’re not in the US!
And there’s nothing better than coming in a little early from the slopes and warming up with hot tea and a good book in the lodge!!

HAPPY MONDAY!

A Brooklyn NYE…

Speaking of New Years resolutions reminds me that I haven’t posted about NYE 2010 yet!! We stuck around Brooklyn to spend New Years with Bails, Kevin and Beck and I’m sure glad we did. 4th Ave Pub was the perfect place to ring in the new year. No line, no cover, seats at the bar, party hats and noise makers, and best of all– a free glass of champagne at the stroke of midnight! It was a great night with many things to be thankful for in the past year. But on this particular night I was just so thankful to be out of the rain, thankful to NOT be in Times Square, and thankful to be spending New Years with people that I love!

The night began with Kevin in the kitchen.

Making a delicious dinner…
of pork, potatoes, and brussel sprouts.
We toast to 2009…
As we ring in 2010!

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Hope you are having a great Saturday!