my mothers house

This weekend I got to spend a morning at my mother's house in Franklin, Tn. Her house is so charming. About 100 years old, complete with an 1900's style elevator. But her garden is one thing I love most about her house. Her yard is beaming with exotic flowers, lemon's, fresh veggies, and so many herbs! I was thrilled to spend some quality time with her.

dead peds, nashville tn.

This weekend was EPIC. Nashville, aka Dead Peds had their first annual Moped Rally! It was amazing. Action packed with 60 mile rides out to the country, moonshine, a full throttled square dance, lot's of law's broken for sure. The weekend was overall amazing!

There was a reporter from the Tennessean there who was taking pictures of us and had interviewed a few people, so when it run's in the paper Ill be sure to take some photos!



[square dance at the Zombieshop]
[this awesome picture was taken by Mickey Bernal]









[i did not take these pictures below!]
























[also, because i've neglected blogging all weekend, i will be posting another blog shortly about easter, many pictures included!]

a wonderful woman + dave bazan

Happy birthday to my mother!
She is such a beautiful person.
Yesterday we celebrated her 59th birthday!
She doesn't look a year over 40 right?
She has aged wonderfully! I hope I have those genes.

In honor of my mother, I made a [what turned out to be] fabulous Flourless Chocolate cake. With 73% dark chocolate [meaning dairy free] and sweetened with just a few tablespoons of agave [making it refined sugar free!]




The birthday celebration was just great! The whole family together, a light afternoon brunch and dinner to follow at a fun asian place, Wild Ginger!



[my new polka dot dress even made an appearance!]



On wednesday night Robert and I got superb, on the stage seating at the Dave Bazan Show in Nashville!
A few good pictures from the dark venue.








[went to show with some sweet friends, Julia and Jesse Kevon!]



[the Headlights opened for him]




[my sweet niece Maiah on a cannon in down town Franklin!]



[wonderful bus progress]


thats all for now!

a bridal shower.

yesterday my 2 sisters and I threw a beautiful shower for our future sister-in-law.
may 15th, my baby brother who is only 19 is getting married!


[josh with our momma]

the shower was great. fully stocked with fresh hydrangeas, pink tissue "flower balls", incredible food made by everyone, great music, fabulous spring shower apparel, and lot's of tears [mainly from me...?]




my sweet Oma [grandmother] here with the Bride-to-be! Isn't she GLOWING?


the food was fabulous!!!









and the table was just beautiful [mainly because of my very creative sister, Carah]






and this is just a sweet picture i took of our dog wizard today. so adorable.



thats all for now. more bites later!

peppermint bliss.

this Christmas was just fabulous!

as the kids are getting older, we've decided to make a few new traditions. it's been really fun.

the weekend started off with robert and I walking to our favorite little bakery in east nashville, Sweet 16!

fresh kosher cinnamon rolls and drew's brew's coffee!

this year we decided that on christmas eve we were going to walk down to the first franklin united methodist church.

walking 4 blocks...in the freezing cold.

normally shannon, my sister-in-love makes the dessert for Christmas eve, but this year I had the pleasure of making a "light christmas eve dessert" as our christmas eve meal is massive and there is never room for the dessert.

I make beignets! (french doughnuts!) i used the Cafe Du Monde's Recipe!

with some hot coffee, such a hit!

then of course my dad read the story and we opened our new christmas pajamas, and a book!

after indulging ourselves in the most fattening and sugary foods we all got into the hot tub then nestled into our new pajamas and cuddled into our beds.

despite my adult-hood, i still woke up at 6:30am ready to celebrate christmas.

my husband didn't agree and wanted to sleep in.

so i got up, made coffee and waited until 9 to wake up the rest of the siblings.

christmas morning!

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after enjoying hot Costa Rican coffee from my sweet friend Jenny Deloach.

we opened our stockings!

filled with our "every year" underwear, hand picked godiva chocolates, socks, and much more!

then we enjoyed some of my mother's famous crepes!

complete with her fresh lemons, from her meyers-lemon tree inside our house!

i made homemade honey-butter.

top a crepe with honey-butter, lemon and raw sugar. oh my goodness!

then we opened gifts!

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the next day we decided to keep the tradition's coming, we went to Pfunky Griddle!

You can go and get unlimited pancake batter and make the pancakes yourself!

blueberries, bananas, chocolate chips! they let your taste buds indulge!

robert + josh made a huge chocolate chip pancake!

oh and fabulous bottomless coffee!

my husband wasn't ready for the huge, Ellis feast and ended up passing out with our dog.

belgium + france

november is a time to cook for me. things and meals that i never cook any other time of the year.

i dont usually eat breakfast, although I know it's so important for me to.. but this weekend robert and I cooked breakfast like never before! my oma's famous crepe's with strawberry preserves and raw sugar. oh my gosh they were delicious. and the trick is, if they look like lace, or a doillie, then they are good crepes! mine are getting there. they are so fabulous!

so we celebrated france yesterday. and on saturday we celebrated belgium! with homemade belgium waffles. i woke up to the smell of maple syrup and blueberries in my house. wish i could bottle that fall smell up.

compliments to my husband's mad skills!

also this year, being our first christmas married we have decided to make our own stockings, decorations, and ornaments! we are starting our own traditions and we are so excited!

above: my stocking

below: wizard and the top of robert's stocking!