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I sent David to the market yesterday to pick up some milk . . .  and he grabbed two gallons of 2%.
I've been getting 1% for the last, I don't know, year or so of our marriage.

And now 2% tastes SO creamy. 

I didn't notice it too much last night when I poured some on top of my ice cream, but this morning?  Cream overload.  I grew up on 2% for heaven's sake - shouldn't I be used to this stuff?  My taste buds are disagreeing with me.

I think I'll got back and get us 1% next time, because, lets be honest I'd rather eat my extra calories than drink them in the morning.

Picture via Pinterest

highlights no.56

It's Wednesday!  Happy half-way through the week!  This is going to be a crazy month - lots going on at church and getting ready for the holidays (Christmas music in T-minus 15 days)! 

Here are some fun posts to get us to Friday :

some good parenting tips

the BEST Halloween costume (take notes for next year)

I want to make a book like this

apple art

yummy cookies!

some FABULOUS dresses (click the pictures to go through them) - wish I was in London to see them!

looking into the past

and, just for laughs

xo

lately

Remember when I used to be so good at blogging?  These last two weeks have been craziness upon craziness and I get home only with the desire to eat, put on comfy pants, and cuddle.  I barely even get on Pinterest these days . . . what???  What is happening here?!  I'm sure I'll adjust eventually and get right back to blog stalking/ pinning, but for now I am relatively un-plugged and it's feeling kind of weird . . . good thing we just ordered me an iPHONE!!!  Now I can officially be a part of the 21st century.  Thank you very much.

Please note that my LG enV has served me well, but has now, more or less, bit the dust.  The time has come to move onward and upward.

My latest adventure to date was going to the fabric district (above) down in LA this past Friday (sometimes I work on Saturday and get that Friday off - pros and cons to that).  I needed to get some fun fabric for a certain young women function coming up at the end of this month - aka: Young Women in Excellence, which I am basically in charge of (yeep!).  I'm no seamstress and I've never been down to the garment/ fabric district before, so my mom and her sewing-savvy friend, Maryorie, were kind enough to meet me there, usher me around, and validate my fabric choices.  They were a world of help - honestly I would have been there hours longer without them.  Pictures of my little finished projects to come! (they are going to be SO cute, by the way)

This Saturday was also my mom's birthday and, happily enough, we were able to run down and spend Sunday afternoon with her, my dad, and Brooke.  It is still such a treat whenever we are able to spend time with them and we are sure milking it.  I honestly can't think of anything sweeter than always living close to family. . . now if we could only get the Nemrows and the Toblers to live in the same state . . .

Picture via Me and Him
Found via Pinterest

new traditions

Halloween might not be my favorite holiday (I don't much like being scared and it always seems to smell like dry ice and cheap plastic - am I right?), so I'm always on the look out for new ways to celebrate it, and David was the mastermind behind this year's idea.  Actually, he got it from his mom : throw a Frankenstein party!  Oh, I mean, a Frank-and-Stein party - where you serve hotdogs and root beer!  I love this idea.  I think it might become a new Halloween tradition for us.

Last night, for David, we made Chilean hotdogs (aka: completos) topped with avocado, tomatoes, and mayo.  Dave loves these things, but I've never tried them before - and they were good!

As a more solid nod to the Halloween holiday we Netflixed Nosferatu and enjoyed a whole lot of creepy organ music and blood sucking.  And, if that wasn't enough, we turned on the TV when it was over and found Hocus Pocus was on!  It's still just as good as it was when I was little - maybe better.

Happy (day after) Halloween!

highlights no.55

So, I feel pretty justified about missing last week's Wednesday post.  In celebration for getting home from work before the sun went down, David and I went out to dinner and watched The Amazing Race - so, no, a highlights post didn't happen.  But this week it will!  And boy am I happy it's Wednesday AND Halloween!  Dave and I are going to watch an old Dracula flick - Nosferatu - and maybe hand out candy to some trick-or-treaters if they make it up to us on the third floor!

Anyways, before the little hooligans arrive, here are some fun posts from around the web :

are you hungry yet?

these kids or, more likely, their parents, are hard core

fun party food!

some great parenting tips

the difference a little eyeliner will make

a little shine

I love these spoons

I think I'm overdue for a Target run . . .

and . . . this makes me smile

Happy Halloween!