Weekend Wrap-Up (the first edition!)

Every Sunday night or Monday I am going to try and do a wrap-up of my weekend and all the fun things that I got up to.

This weekend was a particularly busy weekend for me. I hung out with my bff Carrie on Friday night and stayed up a bit too late so waking up bright and early on Saturday morning was a chore. But the painter came and finished painting my stair well so my house is done! (full post on my house coming soon...) Once I got her situated then I headed to my friend Suzy's and we had a super fun day! We went to Caswell's Shooting Range and I shot a 9mm gun, which was so thrilling!

  

I will for sure be going back there. It was such a rush and it almost made me feel manly powerful.

After that we went to lunch at Red Robin and then headed back to her house to start baking! We started off my making 3 loaves of pumpkin bread. We then moved to making some cinnamon sugar oven roasted almonds and finished the afternoon up with some lemon cupcakes with blackberry cream cheese frosting. So far I have gotten amazing reviews of all of these and I can't wait to bake more!

I was so tired after the long day that I headed home and went straight to bed. Sunday was my dad's birthday and so I spent the day with my parents. We had a great homemade turkey bolognese and my dad had a special request for sour cream cookies. I have been making these since I was very young and they're always a Christmas tradition but I hadn't made them in a few years. I will now be making them periodically through the year though as they're so yummy and easy to make! If interested I can post the recipe. :)

So that's the weekend wrap-up!

My First Post

Hello everyone! I have joined the online world as a blogger and I can't wait to get more involvedand share everything with you.
Please bear with me as I am VERY new to this. I figured my first post should be one so you can get to know me. So lets start from the very beginning.

My parents settled here in Arizona from England in 1986, and I'm certainly glad they chose Arizona, I am certainly a warm blooded creature. I've always loved swimming and being in the sun, probably because I was swimming in our jacuzzi as a very small child.

I lived in the same house for 23 years and I just bought my own house just  afew miles away from my parents, although they will be moving to Florida soon. So I get a great vacation place, Christmas on the beach anyone?!

I love my friends and family so much, and really don't know where I would be without them. My parents have always been my rock and support system and I know that I wouldn't be the person I am without them behind me all the time.

As for my friends, I wouldn't have half the fun I have without them. If I need some cheering up or just need to kill time, I know they will be there for me through thick and thin. I have 2 best friends, a girl and a boy. Carrie is the person who got me into blogging but who also is there for anything. We are girlfriends who snap our fingers in the Z formation! Then there is Brian, who I really knew in elementary school but we only reconnected a few years ago and the rest has been history.



So thats me for now. I will be sharing things I do, places I go, people I meet and maybe even some fashion, something I love!