perfection.

i already mentioned that my momma came in to town over the weekend for my pinning ceremony, but we got to spend the entire weekend together! i can't remember the last time i got to spend mother's day weekend with my momma. and it was perfection.

after the pinning ceremony and reception momma, austin, and i tried out community pie for some pizza for dinner. it was really good! we forgot that nightfall had started up for the summer so the whole downtown area was crazy and community pie is right smack dab in the center of nightfall. but we actually didn't have to wait for a table.

we considered trying out some of milk and honey's gelato, which they had at community pie, but instead we decided to go to one of my favorite places: dub's! {and here's people looking right and eating soft serve ice cream...}

saturday morning, momma and i went and got some delicious donuts from julie darling on the north shore. if you go there, please get the honey wheat donuts. especially if they have fresh, warm ones. but if not, a quick trip in the microwave is almost as good as fresh. omg. so good.

and then we went yard sale-ing! one of my favorite things to do. and although a lot of the sales were pretty unimpressive, we did manage to find a few things we just had to have. austin bought us a new cooler for when we go camping {2 bucks!} and i got some halloween decor. you can never have too much halloween decor, right? after exhausting all the yard sales we could find, we decided to head down to the saturday river market. and i got this cute little guy!

are you kidding me? he's the cutest little weenie dog i've ever seen! the guy there makes all kinds of creatures and designs from metal. momma got some really cute dragonfly stake things for out in the garden and their wings were made from old silver ware handles! i wish i had gotten a picture of them, but don't worry because i plan to buy some dragonflies of my own soon. and then i will share their cuteness. we then had lunch at the vine street market. i highly recommended this little sandwich shop and bakery, but it's not on vine street. so don't look there.

after some gardening, and perhaps a little nap, we got cleaned up to head to dinner with austin's mom and then we were off to the ballet.

then on sunday, on mother's day, i had a little surprise planned for my momma. thanks to bri and her husband i had a mother/daughter photoshoot planned. these next pictures are some that austin shot in the background, i'm anxiously awaiting the pictures from josh. i hope they turn out well!

after our picture session, it was time to grab some lunch at taziki's. and then i got baklava. i just couldn't pass it up. and it was delicious.

unfortunately, it was then that miserable time when momma had to head back home. even though we did so much {and ate SO much}, the weekend never seems long enough. but i am so incredibly happy that i got to spend mother's day with my amazing momma. i can't wait until she {and timmy!} makes the trip back down here. sooner, rather than later, i hope. love you, momma!

harvest time.

{sorry it's been quite a while since i last posted. but my life is just really uninteresting. case in point: this post is about our vegetable garden... again.}

it's finally time for us to begin picking things from the garden! hooray!

the first thing we got was a jalapeno a few weeks ago. turns out, it was a hot one, at least according to austin's and ben's faces.

we've also cut a lot of spinach from the garden already.

we've used it for salads, margherita pizzas, and fritatta.

just yesterday we cut a giant head of broccoli off and used it in hummus and veggie wraps for dinner. yum.

we've got three more big bunches of broccoli that we just cut that we froze for use in dinners later.

{please enjoy my awesome photography skills that make this brocolli appear to be this odd shade of blue}

we're also about to be up to our ears in corn... get it? ears? corn? no? anyway.

i think at last count there were over 50 tomatoes growing on our three plants. too bad i don't like tomatoes...

my cucumber plants are taking over the whole garden and we've got a few itty bitty cucumbers growing.

and our beans are finally starting to climb up the corn stalks. we'll probably drown in green beans by the end of the summer.

our beets are busting out of the ground.

and now {unrelated to gardening} a few photos i've not shared yet.

ben and austin... post jalapeno burn.

dinger's new camp out spot.

the heards on mothers day at the cookie jar.

juliet enjoying ice cream from dub's {tuesday evenings they have "yappy hour" for the pups}.

austin and i mid-pool game. geeze austin's hair is long {and has since had it cut}.

me and juliet cooling off this memorial day weekend.

and juliet giving me the stink eye for making her go swimming.

so yeah. that's my life currently.

{p.s.- i wrote this post almost a week ago. and i never got all the pictures uploaded. because i'm lazy. but i finally did it. so there. but currently, my life is actually quite exciting because KASEY IS HERE!!!!}