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Can you believe the Olympics are over? Its such a let down after all these days of excitement. I kept thinking “I wish the olympics were always on!” but who has the time?? I stayed up way too late every night and went to work with an olympic hangover. Plus our TV must be so relieved. That thing got a work out this month! We barely turn the TV on normally, and then we are watching 5hrs a day? Its kind of nice that I won’t feel the pressure to watch, but also sad. I know you know what I’m feelin.
The olympics were even a bit more exciting this year, being in Matthew’s hometown. Not to mention his dad and a whole bunch of our friends were working there so the emails, tweets, status updates and phone calls really kept us in the loop.
Asher supported his brothers and sisters from the north by showing his Canadian pride at mealtimes
We’re grooming him for a life in sports, obviously.
OWN THE PODIUM! or the bumbo. Whatever.
On another note
Due to my lameness in posting I decided to challenge myself and do another round of NaBloPoMo. If you remember November, it means I have to post every day for the month of March. This is going to be super scary and intense because I am going onsite on Friday and will be working 16hr days all of next week. In another country. Hopefully I can write up some posts in advance!
Expect to be seeing some flashback photos from the past 10 weeks - I definitely slacked on a bunch of cute moments. I can’t wait to share them with you.
March 1st, 2010
We arranged for a Piercy family mega-portrait while we were in Vancouver and got to sneak in a couple of just us!
February 23rd, 2010
Before
During
After
(apple pie)
(chocolate pecan galette)
Lucky for me Matthew and his family fought over the leftover apple pie, and I got the galette all to myself.
November 29th, 2009
Hey other aunties near and far…
Just a bit of news for you.
The boy is quite smitten with Auntie Jaime.
You may need to step up your game.
That’s all I’m sayin!
November 27th, 2009
For Matthew’s family’s Christmas gift exchange we were all assigned a name and and have to submit lists of some things that we might want. Matthew’s sister Theresa has me and I am sure she’ll find me something that makes me smile, list or no list, but it was requested so here it is. If you want to buy me something make sure to let her know, double gifts are such a hassle.
The budget is $50 but I figured I’d just add a bunch of random stuff and post it here.
Here you go Treese!
Strict Joy by The Swell Season ($12)
VIA - Columbia Blend ($10)
Necklush ($42)
A Diana Camera ($50)
Moop Market Bag ($83)
other:
soft scarves in fun colors. for warmth or fashion)
necklaces
cute throw pillows - yellow, orange, red. or pillow covers @ 18×18
giftcards to gap/old navy (canadian ok) + target (us, obvs)
November 26th, 2009
Today is our 8th anniversary.
We didn’t do anything special, in fact we kind of completely forgot about it. We decided to go out for dinner next week to celebrate, this week was just too crazy to deal.
8 years ago we were in Vegas, how I wish we were there this weekend instead of packing, painting, schlepping, sorting and moving. In any case, one of my biggest regrets was that we didn’t get a professional photographer to take photos for our wedding. Oh 2001, you were so cute. How times have changed. Wedding photos now-a-days are amazing, personalized and creative and I’m not fooling myself into thinking that what we would have had then might be as good as what we’d get now but still. A gal can dream. We don’t even have digital photos of the day, because regular people didn’t even have digital cameras.
So instead of displaying our wedding photo I’ll post one of another handsome couple.
May I introduce you to…
The Karts circa 1973!
I can’t quite figure out what my favorite part of this picture is. its definitely a toss up between my dad’s hair, moustache, tie, lapel and sleeve.
Sharon looks adorable and is almost cracking a smile even! I wonder what they said to make her keep her eyes open…
May 19th, 2009
Ok, I know I said I have all these things to blog about and I do! Its just that Matthew’s sister Jaime came to town Thursday and we’ve been having too much fun to sit down at the computer.
Today was a great day in NYC. After pouring rain yesterday the sun finally came out and even thought it was pretty cold (40 deg!) it was at least pleasant.
We had a really fun day today, not a typical Easter Sunday for most but maybe a typical one for us. Family, friends, good food. No egg hunting this year, but I’m sure its something we can look forward to in years to come.
This morning Jaime’s friend Stephanie, who goes to NYU, came over for brunch. Matthew made an amazing frittata, potatoes and turkey bacon and Steph brought over pastries to go with our strawberries for dessert. I am seriously having issues with remembering to take photos so we have none, its pretty sad.
In the afternoon the 3 of us went to see West Side Story which was awesome. We walked around the village for a while before going to dinner at Blue Hill NYC. We treated ourselves (and Jaime of course!) to the tasting menu in honor of her stay. Not only did I forget to take pictures, I didn’t even bring the camera. Its PATHETIC. One of the specialties at Blue Hill is their use of “this morning’s farm egg”,err…an egg from this morning. They bring it over from the farm and it is so delicious! As a speacial Easter gift they gave us this basket of this morning’s farm eggs.
Can’t wait to enjoy them tomorrow.
April 12th, 2009
Thursday morning we woke up too late to see the parade…LIVE! But we Tivo’d it. We made some coffee and started watching, quickly becoming obsessed with its history. People started asking me all kinds of questions I didn’t know the answer to but thanks to the internet we now know just about everything to know about the parade. So happy that’s taking up precious room in my brain!
Guest List: Us, Houseguests Shel and Jaime, My brother Danny, and Jaime’s friend Stephanie from Vancouver who is a freshman at NYU. That brings the Canadian count to 4 and the American count to…3. The irony of that was not lost on me.
We were having a very casual day watching TV, reading, and doing the odd dinner duty as needed. Matthew got a bunch of cooking done Wednesday but still had a bit to do. At about 3:30 we realized we were starving and he went out to get us some lunch and came home with all kinds of cheeses and charcuterie from the store down the street. We were all sitting around enjoying ourselves when the doorbell rang - it was my brother. He told me they were coming at 4:30 but I didn’t think they’d actually be on time! I was still in my PJs.
We sort of kicked it into gear at that point. Matthew and his dad got the potatoes peeled and I set the table.
By the time Steph came at 6:30 we were ready to eat.
We plated the salad before people sat down - and yes it was THE SALAD. Just like I promised.The rest was a buffet.
Turkey: Kosher. Best kind of turkey ever.
Stuffing: Mah Favorite
Roasted Brussels Sprouts: Trying to make Jaime a fellow sprout lover. FAIL. (kid is loco)
Cauliflower Au Gratin: Via Smitten Kitchen. Didn’t try it, not my thing.
Broiled Sweet Potatoes: My mother always makes this so my brother brought them. There is not a marshmallow to be found. Delish.
Matthew’s plate.
Beverages on hand were some kind of wine for the Piercy men (natch) , Dr. Browns Black Cherry for the Jews (NATCH!) and Sparkling Apple and Cranberry juices for the under 21 set.
For dessert Shel made an apple pie and Matthew made sticky toffee pudding.
Jaime and Steph
I’m so glad we kept it casual, it was so much fun. It was Matthew’s first ever turkey and it came out great!!
Tags: good eats
December 17th, 2008
Matthew’s dad and his little sister Jaime came to visit for Thanksgiving. Since they have been here so many times before we didn’t feel the need to do too many touristy things, which was nice. It probably would have been smart to plan SOMETHING though because we ended up staying up too late every night and then not getting going till about noon every day. Whatevs, we were on West Coast time.
We knew there was no way that we were going to the parade but thought it would be kind of fun to watch them blow up the balloons the night before. Matthew and I went years ago, before it was a “thing” but now its definitely a THING.
Yeah there were signs. Lots and lots of them. It was totally insane. Adam met us there and we really couldn’t stop obsessing over the fact that there were still thousands of people there when we rolled through the barricades at 9:47pm. I think they estimated 350,000 people came.
It was still pretty cool.
We couldn’t help but notice that the balloons were placed Head to Toe (Head to Butt) and the banter became a bit less family-friendly. It was so obvious it would have been more uncomfortable NOT to mention that Ronald McDonald wasn’t sniffing someone’s tush.
Slightly more well behaved balloons included Buzz
and Dora
The real reason why its fun to go is to see how big these things actually are, and how they get them in the air.
Obligatory “We were really there” shot of the night:
Tags: nyc
December 14th, 2008
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