My Weekend :: Jan. 21 & 22

I forgot my camera on Friday, but here's a glimpse at the rest of my weekend...

 (blueberry muffin french toast)

 (i <3 free movie tickets)

(i also <3 popcorn with extra butter)

(elizabeth's birthday) 

 (capitol hill)

 (cousins playing. super gritty picture, but i love the moment.)

 (football & family)

(happy birthday d!)

My Weekend :: Jan. 13-16

One of the laziest three day weekends of my life.  Hence tons of pictures of food.  (Also, I just really like food.)

(amazing sunset at green lake on my walk home from work on friday)

 (late night krispy kreme run to prepare for cheat day!)

(breakfast of champions) 

 (car loaded with laundry for a day at the issaquah hoffman residence.)

(ewan was a really good laundry helper)

 (just loungin', watching football)

 (ale house fries. french dip not pictured.)

(space needle)

 (snow!)

 (good advice)

 (chicken sausage + fried eggs)

 (labeling project)

(friday night lights)

My Weekend :: Jan. 6-8

After being a little under the weather last week, my weekend was low key and I loved it.  A few home projects, a lot of Netflix and quality time with my man.

 (i take a lot of pictures of coffee)

 (honey nut chex!)

 (inspiration for my new desk area)

(eggs) 

 (west elm sale)

(church)

My Weekend :: Dec. 30 - Jan. 1

Warning: I'm about to talk about how awesome my boyfriend is, so if that doesn't interest you, feel free to skip down to the pics. Michael is pretty phenomenal at giving gifts. He's not always great at keeping them a secret, but he really knows how to spoil me. This year, among other things, he surprised me with a sweet new lens for the camera he bought me last Christmas. He's really supportive of my growing passion for photography--he even signed me up for a class/workshop back in September.

I was really inspired by that workshop, but got busy with life and forgot to use the tips/tricks I learned that day. In an effort to regularly practice those things, and get to know my new lens, I decided to start weekly(ish) posts by taking more photographs on weekends. I took pics the last two weekends, but didn't get around to posting them.  So I'm playing catch-up tonight. I know myself, and this definitely won't happen every week (hence the "ish" above), but it's resolution time, so most likely I'll stick with this until mid February when it starts to fade out.  Just kidding. (I hope...) :)

 (note to self: new lens isn't arm's length compatible)

 (new year's eve brunch)

 (boys playing with their christmas toys)

 (happy new year!)

 (berries)

 (garlic naan)

(treats)

10 on 10: January

This was a really long day. Long enough that I considered putting multiple "L's" in that really. It's not the first time I've worked both jobs on a 10 on 10 day but definitely the first that started at 2am and is ending at 11pm. Honestly though, no complaints. Aside from the initial scare at Christina's puncture wound (which turned out to be an easy fix, by the way), the day was great. Productive, good conversations, and a fantastic dinner with a friend. But as you can see below, my bed is waiting for me and I'm pretty excited about it.  Happy 10 on 10 world!

(More sets here).

Happy (almost) New Year!

This video has been flying around the past couple of days, but I just had to join the bandwagon and share it as well...

Love it--his over-extended chin, her ukulele and all the smiles at the end.  So cute.

Hope you have a safe and happy New Year's!

Merry (almost) Christmas!

(Clockwise from top left: 1. $1 stockings I picked up from World Market a couple years back; 2. snowman fridge courtesy of my  awesome Grandma; 3. nativity set which was given to me last Christmas; 4. the wreath I made, dropped, broke and remade last weekend).

Just a little Instagram peek at my Christmas decor around Minihouse (which is what I lovingly call the cottage I moved into at the end of October).  Isn't the snowman fridge awesome?  My grandma actually sent it to my five year old niece, but they have a stainless steel/non-magnetic fridge, so I lucked out and claimed it as my own.

My brothers and their families are with the in-laws this year, so we had our Hoffman Family Christmas last night.  And with Christmas music playing in the office today, I think I finally feels like Santa's coming. ;)  But before he does I wanted to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas!

And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

- Luke 2: 9-12