Spontaneous Strawberries

I've hardly been in the mood to blog lately, but this little adventure is a must.

Early Wednesday morning my mom, who usually let's me wake up on my own because she knows I work at night, woke me up asking if I wanted to go pick some strawberries. Because of the sound of her voice and look on her face I knew she was excited and ready to, so I got ready in a jiffy ... then we were off.

I'm always up for spontaneous adventures, and I'm glad my mom took me on one she's been wanting to take. I'm usually the brains behind spontaneous adventures, though now I see I might have gotten that from her. Once we got there we took out our big ole summer hats and headed down to the patch.

First we were assigned a row to help guide us to some yummy berries. But apparently we had the whole patch to ourselves so really it was an "all you could pick" buffet.

The whole field smelt of sweet berries, it was so delightful.

At the end of our adventure me and mom took home a bucket
of strawberries, each ... and a few more pictures for the road.

I have this secret talent of breaking into places ... hehe
so I thought I would try my luck with this barn.

My mom just thought it'd be cute to pose.. hehe

I love mi madre, and our spontaneous strawberry adventure.


Last thing ...

I've not had the luxury of time to sit and sew, but I did manage to whip up a little skirt for myself last week and finally took her out for our little trip. I didn't have a pattern on me, which is always the case so I just played around and TADA! I really wanna make more.. hopefully I can soon.

I'm glad this week is coming to an end,
it's nice to finally have both feet back on solid ground.

Free Cake!!!

I love me some cake, any kind of cake really .. and tomorrow its National Pancake Day!!!  

Free, cake is even better ... so get yourself a free short stack of pancakes at IHOP tomorrow!

Tea Time

I like tea. Correction, I love tea. Nothing new about that, but I do have a few new tea addictions. On any given day I usually consume at least one kind of tea, Earl Grey, or Passion Ice Tea, Sweet tea, Green Tea, Pomegranate Tea, Bubble Tea, Breakfast Tea, Mango Tea, or any kind of tea really. I'll try any kind, here are a few of my latest favorites.

My winter addiction: A good Spiced Chai Tea Lattte.

I say good because not just any Chai tea will do. As much as I love Starbucks, I hate their Chai. The best I've ever had was at none other than Murky, and the Tea Palance in the mall I work at is easily my second favorite.

A must try: Moroccan Mint Tea

I didn't know if I'd like it really, but my coworker from Palastine loves the stuff so I tried it. Mint teas are one of those "you either love it or hate it" type things and I love it, I can't say the same for my sister.

Thai tea, there's nothing like it!!

I got my family to finally try this Thai restaurant down the street {I love trying new places out} and It's easily become one of our favorite restaurants in the area. We've had it at least once or twice every month since. Besides their amazing Pad Thai, I LOVE their THAI TEA!! Fine, in general I love Thai tea. If they served it at coffee shops as oppose to just Thai restaurants, it'd probably be my "regular" every day. Now I want some more {I had some just a few hours ago}. And even if Thai tea is cold, I'll have it any day.

Tea = love!

'Tis the season for warm drinks and merriment!!

21st night

This past Sunday was tons of fun. Praise band practice was more complicated than we all anticipated but worship was great. I am sooo extremely blessed to be surrounded by such talented and beautiful sisters every sunday {and ... brothers as well}.

After church sister dearest, Em-em dearest and I headed out for another surprisingly romantic sunday night, just us girls. Before heading to our fav vintage shop, The Mustard Seed, we found ourselves a flea market to enjoy.

After a bit more walking we found ourselves on Bethesda Row for some dining and desserts. We went to Cosi for the most amazing Apple pie, then headed to the bookstore for a few hours of reading fun. By the time we called it a night and walked out on the streets again ... to our surprise we found the streets alive with people eating and walking, enjoying one of the few warm nights out.

Twas the 21st night of September.

Meeting Mr. Cakelove

It's an undeniable fact that I do adore cakes from scratch,

I love to love Cakelove!

And on a blissful Saturday afternoon after work I got to be one lucky gal and meet the Mr. CakeLove himself, the genius behind the goods! Warren Brown was SUPER tall and uber nice. He stood out amongst the busy weekend crowd at the mall, and it seemed as if no one really knew who he was {which me and sister are totally perturbed by because he's absolutely genius!}

Big sister actually went with mother earlier in the day to meet him and get his cake book signed and I asked sister to do me one favor. I asked her to tell Warren Brown, Thanks for making great cupcakes!

His little cakes of love have tickled my fancy and a silly as it sounds, they make my day every time I have one. I'm sad we don't get The Food Network because I'd be watching his show all the time!

I can't wait to make some love of my own!

There are a million beautiful recipes in his book and I can't wait to try baking all of them! It's been a long time since I've baked anything so this shall be my long a waited return! HAHA! Just the other day my cousin from London asked for a recipe of mine and it reminded me of just how much I miss it.

Make cake!

Pass the Pequod please...

Have you noticed your Stabucks' cup

looking a little different now a days?

...well I have...

For this season Starbucks printed out a new "vintage Starbucks" sleeve. And upon seeing it, it brought me back to one of my favorite speeches from my oral communication class two years ago, back to my "Pequod" speech. The vintage {and original} logo made me think of Pequod. The name Pequod comes from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, a classic American novel and is the name of the ship in the novel. The owners, of what would soon be Starbucks, though the word Pequod sounds silly and wasn't a proper name for their coffee business so they went with Star bo, and a place on the ship Pequod, and tweaked it to perfection till they got to the solution: Starbucks.

... That was kind of how my speech went, just a little more wordy and with a bit more eloquence. Anyways I remember seeing the original logo, the one currently on the cup sleeves, while doing my research for my speech and brings me back to some good memories ...

Have you had any Pequod lately?

Dinner on the town

My blogging has gone slightly askew, and slightly out of order so though this happened before Easter weekend it's still something worth blogging about. The other weekend after a lovely Good Friday service the few of us who were hungry had dinner on the town.

Rocking my lovely camera strap from The Bratchers.

My part time lover.

Our personal driver for the week... hehe

Driving through the city in the moon light... lovely

I took Rein to my favorite Cheesesteak place in Georgetown.... yum!

Saturday Lunch

Saturday for lunch after a morning at a nursing home singing songs to the old folks, we went out for lunch and some Cake Love. First we had some amazing little tuna wraps at Johnny Rockets.

Then the Lovin' came after...

{I forgot to take pictures inside because I was way tooo excited... but was lovely!}

Later Reinna and I took our cakes and ate it over coffee will Lily and boy were our cakes OH SO TASTY... I had the Raspberry on Chocolate cupcake and I forget what Rein had, but we were both screaming with excitement about how amazing our cakes were.

We heart Cake Love!

Post Birthday, Birthday Lovin'

Last Wednesday was the grand finale of my birthday lovin'. It was big sis free night and wanted to take me out for some {post} birthday celebrating. We headed out to the mall and once we got there, there was this very familiar guy standing around in footlocker ... it was Tim ... again. He's such a good lier, there for he's good with surprises. HAHA.

We tried out Vapianos, sister's treat.

The place was amazing.

The food was soo yummy!

Twas a great meal with great company.
Vapianos = Yummy.