Free chipolte

My brother and sister dressed up as farmers for Halloween to get free burritos at Chipotle.

 I made these awesome apple mouths and they were going to have raisins as the rotting teeth but improvised with nuts.  They are more of a joke snack than an actual delicacy. 

 Farmers with rotting teeth...

$5 Halloween costume

I love Halloween, it's one of my favorites.  This year I made a shirt I liked off of Pintrest but just used white fabric paint and a black tee from walmart.  I tried to quickly draw it out and have it in time for the trick or treaters so sorry if it is lacking in skill.  They have an iron-on like this for $15 dollars or something but i couldn't rationalize spending the money.  But yeah, i enjoyed being festive.  McKay was supposed to be a regular skeleton with me but it didn't end up happening b/c of our procrastinating skills.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened -Dr. Suess

 There are many things in life that make us just wonder "why me?"  The thing is, no one is perfect and everyone is going to struggle with something at one time or another.  I guess it's just what you do with it when it's your turn. 

So what are you going to do with those lemons?

Moving day

So here we are, moving comes too soon. The couch that we spent 3.5 hours getting up the stairs was destroyed so we could get down the stairs easier.  We were very sad to see it go but it wouldn't fit in the moving truck (b/c apparently 16' Penske trucks are a lot smaller than 16' Budget trucks) and we didn't want to spend another 3.5 hours sweating and straining over getting the couch down the spiraled staircase again.

 My brother Aaron came out and made moving a breeze.  Before we left we took him to Sam La Grassas , the best sandwich shop that we have been to in Boston and it was good even though it was our last time.  Their best sandwich is definitely their Chipotle Pastrami and we had some of their Clam Chowder too.  Yum!

 Our last sad view of Breed St.  We will miss you!  And here's our good old moving truck, this one had a cd player and didn't break down on us

 Our truck filled with our neighbors and friends.  We wish we could take you with us.

 And then we drove down to Maryland, definitely bittersweet.

Goodbye summer

Good bye flowers, and hello crisp cool air, you are my favorite and I'm ready!

Gourmet night-Oct

My lovely downstairs neighbor, Rachael, belongs to the gourmet dinner club in the Cambridge ward and invited me to help her.  We used plastic leaves from the dollar store to set up a cool leaf chandelier.

 Rachael carved holes in the tops of apples perfectly sized to fit tea light candles.  These look so cool when they are burning.

 I got a few stems of flowers, leaves and berries at the dollar store and tied them together with raffia at each place setting.

All and all I think setting up for the party cost less than $20.  The ladies escaped from their refuges in Cambridge, trekked over to East Boston, and brought their dish to fit with the theme: Apples and/or Cinnamon.

 It's actually been a while since we had the party so I don't remember all the food that was there but there was apple goatcheese tartlets, a yummy squash soup that had cinnamon croutons, wassail, a spicy mexican chocolate cake that had cayenne pepper in it and topped with cinnamon whipped cream, yummy salads, and cranberry apple sausage stuffing.  

It was awesome and I was ready to burst by the end which kinda stunk b/c I couldn't eat the rest of the apple tartlet thing which was SO amazingly good. But I really wanted to eat it all!