Good Times

As Bryce mentioned, my friend, Jenni, came to visit and we had such a fun time. Bryce blogged about some of the things we did, but he failed to mention some very important ones...

Friday night Jenni and I bundled up, left the baby with Bryce (thanks, Brycie!) and went out on the town! We walked along M-Street and browsed some of the fabulous stores there, including one of my all-time favorites... Lush!! Oh, how I love Lush. It is the best best best place! I hope you have ALL been able to enter a Lush establishment. If not, get in your car and go check one out!! They sell "handmade cosmetics" including the most fabulous bath bombs, bubble bars, and massage bar thingys. They even sell this super cool solid shampoo that you rub on your head. Odd, but nifty. Oh!! And this really cool soap that is the consistency of jello. The best part about it is that they will show you demos of all their products, so you can try them all out! Everything smells soooo good. It is heaven for your nose. Jenni was very sweet and noticed that I was drooling over the Wiccy Magic Muscles massage bar, and before I knew it she'd bought it and given it to me! Well wasn't that just the sweetest thing eva?!

We also checked out one of my other fave stores, The Walking Company. I used to frequent this store all the time when I lived in Boston and would walk to and from work every day. It's so nice to have a pair of cute walking shoes that you can wear both walking to work and at work. Most of the time, though, the penny-pincher in me couldn't justify the usually-very-steep price tags on said cute walking shoes. However, luck was a lady in Georgetown and this super cute pair of Earth Shoes was on a deep discount sale, so... I couldn't resist. I have been briefed on the proper way to break them in and will keep you all informed on the dramatic results that I'm sure are just around the corner from correcting my posture with footwear! (Yesterday I also found out that my mom used to own a pair of Earth Shoes - oddly enough, when she was pregnant with me! Who knew?!) Here's two pics of the shoes I bought -- only the ones I bought are brown.All in all it was a great shopping experience. As Bryce would say, fun was had by all.

I really got to run here, but I can't end without also including a pic of the totally cute tote bag Jenni made while here! Sophie got really sick about the second Jenni's plane landed in Baltimore and so we had a few low-key days to try to help her quickly recover. We turned one of these days into a tote-sewing day and Jenni came up with the cutest fabric combination. Some pics for you visual peeps: And last but not least, we started Jenni on the blogging addiction while she was here! No one who enters this house is safe from The Blog. She's a newbee at the whole thing, but has promised me great things... ;) Hooray for yet another blogger!

And with that I can no longer ignore the mounds of dishes that are now positively screaming my name from the kitchen... Signing off for now!