Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Closing time

December is coming to a close. 2012 flew by, but the end has also been slow in coming... Here's what we've been up to this month, the last month of the year! (& the pictures are out of order and refuse to change)

Finished my last clinical day at the hospital! We celebrated with a "fancy" lunch at the "fancy" hospital cafe, it was delicious and the company was lovely. Just one more semester to go, and although this one was no walk in the park, I'm looking forward to getting my motivation up for the final four months that are around the corner. Getting close!

Annual night in the city to see the Christmas festivities! The tree is always so beautiful to me, and breathtaking when you get us close to it, it's just massive and so sparkly, what's not to love? 

Mckay's brother Jared came to town to celebrate his birthday and we got to hang out with him all weekend (we were supposed to go to the Killers concert, which ended up being canceled).  We had brunch at Sarabeth's, a "chick" place, but I think they both ended up really liking it. Jared liked it more than his face in this picture shows.

Our sweet neighbor baby Tillie (who we absolutely adore) came to play one night when her Mama needed to run an errand. Lucky me got to soak up her darling baby-ness for a few hours.

Birthday desserts for the birthday boy! Toasted marshmallow milkshakes -the best milkshake I've ever had in my life!

Mckay's flag football season ended, don't worry, I believe another one has already started up again.  They shall not go without.  I said, "give me a tough face".

We had dinner with our wonderful friends, the Francia's and laughed for two straight minutes at their baby stuck in this foam toy.  It was hilarious watching him try to escape. 

Stars changing colors to Christmas music at the Time Warner Center.

Red 

My milkshake from the birthday dinner. I kid you not when I say it was the milkshake of ALL milkshakes. Toasted marshmallows aren't even my favorite thing and I couldn't shovel this into my mouth fast enough. If that + our wonderful company isn't enough to get you to visit I don't even know what is.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

When we stole away to Otis...

One of my sweetest friends from nursing school offered to let us use her cabin for the weekend. We jumped on the thought of running away for a weekend.  We didn't know what the cabin would be like, but couldn't very well screen it; "Yes, we'd like to use your cabin, but how nice of a cabin are we talking?"  No, that would be rude, so one graciously accepts and hopes that one is not stuck in a freezing shack in the woods, sleeping on a futon.  We were so very thrilled to discover the most beautiful log house (I can hardly classify it as a cabin) we'd ever seen.

We spent the weekend tucked away inside, putting together a 1,000 piece Christmas puzzle, drinking cup after cup of hot chocolate, sleeping in the comfiest pillow-topped bed, soaking in the claw-foot tub, cooking yummy meals in the gourmet-cabin-kitchen, building fires, falling asleep to the crackling embers, watching movies, ignoring phones & computers, simply enjoying each other.  We were even lucky enough to wake up to a few inches of softly falling snow on Saturday morning, so perfect.

It was a cozy, comfy, lovely weekend in Otis, Massachusetts. 

The fire I built us.

The cabin that wasn't a shack.

The puzzle we spent 8+ hours putting together.  

The pretty patchwork quilt that divided the living room & kitchen, my Mom would have loved it.

The cute colored mugs that held our hot chocolate all weekend.

The tired but obsessed lovers working on the puzzle at 1:00 AM.

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