Lately

Every so often when I feel like I have a lot of things to catch you guys up on, I do a “Lately” post.  I haven’t posted since before Thanksgiving so I thought today would be a good day to just post a huge update for you guys.  Here’s what I’ve been up to:

Our Christmas lights are up on our balcony now.  It only took me an hour and frozen hands to do so, but they are up!  We are getting our Christmas tree this upcoming weekend, so inside our apartment will start feeling Christmas-y soon.

As part of A Week of Gratitude, one of the days called for writing a thank you note to a friend.  I decided to send one to my dear friend Danica.  She actually received when she was having a bad day, so it lifted her spirits a bit!

Haha, ok so that picture above is clearly not me nor is it my photo at all.  Another task for A Week of Gratitude was to donate cans to a local food bank.  Giant Food Stores has this thing where if you donate $10 you can feed a whole family with a box of food.  All boxes stay local and go towards a shelter in your area.  How amazing is that?!  I think they are doing this all season long – not just for Thanksgiving, so if you shop at Giant I highly recommend this. 

Another thing to do during A Week for Gratitude was to spend time with a loved one.  One of the days last week, Bryan and I decided to just relax all night an watch TV together.  Sure, we do this on most nights but we made an effort to watch TV without phones, laptops, etc.  It was nice.

On Thanksgiving morning Leslee, her BF, Bryan, and I drove down to Philly for the Thanksgiving Day Parade!  Holy moly was it cold!  Good thing we had chairs, blankets and mimosas to keep us warm .  Next year I think we will be watching on our TV.  It was by far the coldest year yet!

On Saturday, Bryan, his friend Jonathan, and I went out to Jim Thorpe in the Poconos to walk around for a bit.  Of course I made Bryan pose for the obligatory holiday picture (seen above).  It was such a nice day.  We checked out some really cool vintage jewelry stores, Bryan sampled different types of jerky, we walked around Country Junction, and had an amazing lunch at a diner in Lehighton. 

On Saturday night when we got home, I had a package in the mail from our wedding photographer.  Inside were the cutest Moleskine notebooks and a thank you card.  If you’re wondering, we are having Jeff from Brooke Courtney Photography do our wedding.  So if you are looking for a wedding photographer, I highly recommend him!  His work is amaazzzzzing. 

On Sunday, Bryan and I went over to the mall for a quick store in Bloomingdales.  Bryan saw a phone cover he thought he liked while we were there on Black Friday and wanted to go check it out again.  Turns out it doesn’t fit on his phone properly.  While he was doing that, I tried on some more clothes from Free People.  I had no idea Bloomingdales had it’s own little Free People section!  Wahoo!  The pullover above can be found online here.  I’m waiting for the pullover to go on sale, so I didn’t purchase it yesterday although it FOR SURE will be coming home with me at some point.  If you’re wondering, the size I’m wearing is a Small.  The website suggests you size down because they run big.  However, the pic on the Free People website has the model wearing it almost as a cropped sweater and I hate that look so I actually sized up. 

Another highlight of my week – an iPhone5S in gold!  Bryan’s mom surprised me on Friday by buying me an early birthday present.  I was due for an upgrade for a while now and Apple actually wanted to buy back my iPhone4 so it all worked out perfectly! 

Talk to Me

• How was your week?
• What did you do for Thanksgiving?
• Did you shop on black Friday?  What did you buy?