Happy Friday! I am so blessed to have a job that I love but I must admit that I very much look forward to my weekends. This week was full of greatness – Mambo Taxis at Mi Cocina with girlfriends to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, cooking adventures in the kitchen with James, a lunch meeting with our favorite videographer, one of my most favorite Girls Nights In to date at Korena’s (complete with build-your-own rice bowls and champagne on the roof), and the launch of Coffee & Tacos, of course! This weekend should be fairly low-key, as there’s not much on the calendar. I have a Skype Happy Hour date tonight with Erin, and I plan to go to City Surf tomorrow with Laura, celebrating our great workout with tacos and margaritas afterwards. I always love taking Callie on walks, especially since the weather has been so fantastic, and I am looking forward to soaking up some sun in the backyard while I finish up The Goldfinch. I most definitely will be poring over the wedding photos that Heather sent us, which we got this week – she is so beyond talented, and isn’t the way she packaged the photos so gorgeous?! It was such a treat that she gave us some actual prints, too! Happy early Mother’s Day to all of the beautiful mommas out there, especially mine!
This is not a new idea to those of you who are avid blog readers, but each Friday I plan to share some fun links from around the interwebs. I always love setting aside some time to scroll through blogs that post weekly recaps, which feels like a perfectly suitable activity for lazy Saturday mornings that include coffee and breakfast in bed and wearing pajamas for way longer than publicly acceptable. So enjoy these fun finds from this week:
I already sent Mom her Mother’s Day gift from Andrew & me (I hope she loves it!!) but if I hadn’t picked anything for her yet, I’d send her one of these gorgeous gift boxes. And then I would send one to myself.
My childhood friends Andrea & Natalie are just about to launch Yoga+ in Chicago. The concept, per their website, is this: “Our idea of the perfect friend date involves something active (yoga) + learning something new. Each month with Yoga+ we’ll offer just that! A vinyasa-style yoga class followed by an interactive educational event surrounding one of our other favorite hobbies or an activity that we’ve been itching to learn more about.” Their first event is a floral arrangement workshop – I wish I lived in Chicago so that I could go! I’ve already told them I would love to help host a Dallas event if they ever venture down to Texas because I think the idea is that fabulous.
I always come home from one trip ready to plan another (which, I recently read, is actually a good idea). Bri Emery’s travel posts on Tulum and Thailand have already got me daydreaming of new and exciting places.
Currently coveting this Salute the Sun pullover.
Okay, these house plant cupcakes are simply fantastic.
My family and I had so, so much fun in Palm Springs. We celebrated Mother’s Day by renting a super cool mid-century modern house, where we posted up for four whole days and soaked in the sunshine. We ate at several delicious spots like Tyler’s (yummy burgers), Birba (authentic Italian with such good pizza), and Cheeky’s (heavenly brunch), but we also did our fair share of cooking and mixing up cocktails at home, which was so fun. I got to have dinner with my parents all by myself on Thursday evening; since James & Andrew had yet to arrive, it was just the three of us, which was a rare and cherished treat. We spent hours upon hours at the pool at our rental house and playing Bocce ball in the backyard court, and we lounged at the Ace Hotel for a blissful afternoon. We wandered through the grounds of The Parker and added a stay at the gorgeous property to our bucket lists. We drank iced coffee and ate yogurt parfaits for breakfast near the pool every morning and we took lots of long walks around our pretty neighborhood. It was such a great weekend filled with quality family time. I can’t believe that our next family vacation will include our baby girl, so exciting!
Coffee & Tacos 