Fishing Trip

Sunday morning we woke up earrrrly to drive down to Stuart for a fishing trip to celebrate a friend’s birthday. We caught a ton of fish, but most of them were too small to keep so we had to throw them back. Only a few people in our group caught fish that they got to take home and eat. Still, it was nice to be out on the water. I love being on boats.

Kelly (second in from the right) took some cool fishy photos with his Lytro camera while we were on the boat. They can be found here.

Go Fly a Kite

Brian and I have really gotten into flying kites lately; it’s something we do almost every day (weather permitting) during our breaks at work. I just got a kite of my own that’s shaped like a parrot and last Sunday we took it out for a spin! We brought Louis along too and let him run around as much as he wanted.
 
I really want to figure out a way to attach a camera to one of our kites so we can take some video from a birds eye view!

Saturday Morning Cartoons

There’s just something about Saturday morning and cartoons that go really well together, like peanut butter and jelly or macaroni and cheese they were made for each other. My favorite thing to do on Saturday mornings is eat a bowl of cereal and watch The Adventures of Tintin on instant Netflix. Of course, now I can eat crepes while watching Tintin which is even better!

 

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Easter Weekend Part 2

For the last day of our three day Easter weekend we went to the beach.
Me with my Sophie Kinsella beach read.
The weather was gorgeous! When we got there it was even a little cold when the sun went behind a cloud and the wind was blowing, but after an hour the sun came out for good and it was just so perfect! After we got back from the beach I baked a batch of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies while Brian played Skyrim on the Playstation 3. This was really a fun, relaxing weekend for both of us!
 

Easter Weekend Part 1

We had a three day weekend last week because of the Easter holiday and we had one of the nicest weekends since we moved to Florida. The weather was perfect, there was no stress over wedding planning, we just did what we wanted to do. On Friday we went thrifting in Vero Beach. We were looking for some furniture for our house (a desk for my studio and a chair for Brian’s music room) and we ended up with some funky old knickknacks instead. Brian bought a giant tungsten bulb for a dollar and turned it into a little sculpture piece, like the ones Anthropologie sold a few years ago, by attaching it to a small wooden base.

Inspiration                                                                         Brian’s $12 version

I bought a set of four silver colored tumblers that I used as containers for herbs.
 
We’ve got thyme, sage, chives and lavender on our kitchen windowsill now. Brian also bought an old metronome that reminded him of his music teacher from high school. He bought it to use when he practices guitar, but after we got it home we found out that it doesn’t keep steady time. I think with a little oil on the gears here and there it should work fine again.

On Saturday we just stayed in and relaxed. I wrote 20 thank you notes for each of the wonderful women who attended my bridal shower two weeks ago and Brian baked a loaf of homemade French bread to go with dinner.