It’s hard for me to believe this is my seventh year making this year-end list of the best things I ate. I did quite a bit of traveling this year including a few works trips to NYC, Las Vegas and Orlando and vacations in Western NC + Charlotte area, Atlanta, Williamsburg, VA, Raleigh, NC, and Melbourne, FL. I had great meals while in these places in addition to some outstanding dishes on the Outer Banks and in our home. Continue reading
2022 turned out to be a great year for food. Although we moved from Atlanta to a much smaller community in the Outer Banks, NC, we managed to have a wide variety of food experiences in both our new home and on all of our fun travels. This is the sixth year of my annual wrap-up of my top eats and I still love making this list so much. I hope you enjoy seeing our year through the tasty food we ate. Cheers! Continue reading
When we moved from Atlanta earlier this year, I knew we’d have to find a new family photographer for our annual photos. Since we were going to be in Melbourne visiting Sean’s family over Thanksgiving, which is near the time of year we normally do the photos, I thought we should expand our group to include his mom and stepdad. I’m glad we did because these photos turned out so well in spite of a very wet and gray morning. I love the ones with Harrison, Nana and JJ. There are some great ones with Sean and Harrison, too – not least because we had them taken at Sean’s childhood park (he teared up a bit when I told him we were getting the photos done at Pineapple Park <3) It’s important to me to take the time for these photographs and I always order prints to cycle into our picture frames at home. Enjoy these 2022 family photographs. 🙂 Continue reading
Our final two days in Mexico we spent in the area surrounding San Miguel, exploring the countryside and enjoying beautiful views of the mountains.
Sean’s dad picked us up from Barbara Porter’s place in Centro the morning after the Dia del Los Muertos festivities and we went to the Tuesday market and breakfast of barbacoa tacos with consume, and some shopping. This was absolutely a locals place and we loved it. Fresh produce, butchers, tortillas, clothes, kitchen items, toys – this place had it all. Great experience. Continue reading
For our first trip out of the country since we went to Japan in November of 2017, we headed south of the border to visit my in-laws in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. They moved there/retired there shortly after Harrison was born in 2018 and this was our first visit to see them there – as well as my first time in Mexico. Our trip coincided with Dia de Los Muertos so we went all out and brought costumes, had our faces painted and even joined in the parade around the town square (Centro). This is the first of three posts about our time in this beautiful and historic mountain town. Continue reading
We spent a long weekend in Raleigh, North Carolina for our seventh anniversary this year. It had been several years since we’d been to Raleigh and we were both happy to visit again because we love this city! We explored some new places, returned to a couple of favorites and even made a surprise visit to Lindsey in Charlotte on the way home to Atlanta. Continue reading
Two years without visiting the wonderful mountain town of Brevard and the surrounding land of waterfalls is too long! I remedied that with a fairly hastily planned long weekend in this Western North Carolina wonderland. We even had a bonus with this trip – we got to see our friends and neighbors who had just moved to this area. If you’re wondering what to do on a weekend around the Pisgah National Forest, read on for a few fun ideas. Continue reading