Birthday Week
Posted: March 19, 2012 Filed under: birthday | Tags: birthday, DC, Founding Farmers, Jackie's 4 Comments »Last week was my birthday week! N and I went out to dinner at a local place called Jackie’s and then stopped by the ice cream shop for a couple of scoops to enjoy on our walk home. It was so nice to actually be able to get out and enjoy this nice weather with a walk to dinner.
My mom came and visited this past weekend and we made a day of it in DC.
Sissy really liked that her shoes were there while we were out.
Over the course of the day we covered 6 miles of walking and my feet could feel it. Funny how sometimes 6 miles of running seems a lot easier than 6 miles of walk. I think it is the time spent on your feet! We were upright from about 11:30am-4:30pm.
We visited Sweetgreen near Capital Hill and then walked down to visit some of the Smithsonian Museums.
We spent time in the Native American, Natural History, and American History Museums. 
After getting tussled around by lots of school children, we headed down to another crowd at the Tidal Basin. The cherry trees are in full force! Why are they not pink?!?!
I feel bad for those coming to visit within the next two weeks. They are peaking super early due to this amazing weather we have been having.
From the cherry trees we walked up 17th street to our dinner destination. At this point we both really wanted a cold beer!
We dined at Founding Farmers. I want to say that the food was amazing and the service was stellar, but as my mom put it, “the drinks were the best part”. This restaurant prides itself on being farm to table, organic, fresh, sustainable, and all things natural. I had been craving a street hot dog from the vendors all day and when I saw them on the menu, I got excited. Unfortunately I found out that their hot dog contain nitrates! Nitrates are an extremely harmful carcinogen and I was sad to hear they were in my dinner choice. I scrambled and got the shrimp and grits because I had never had it before.
I tried not to think about the fact that my shrimp were probably from China and my sausage had nitrates as well…you live and you learn and we both agreed we need to make a trip up to Baltimore to our beloved Woodberry Kitchen instead of Founding Farmers.
This trip wasn’t about the food anyway, it was about the company! I was so glad to have my mom here for a birthday weekend of fun and even angel food cake 
Happy Birthday GiGi!
Posted: October 29, 2010 Filed under: birthday | Tags: birthday, grandmother 1 Comment »
Happy Birthday GiGi! Today is my grandmothers birthday! I hope you have a great day Gig and I will see you at Thanksgiving! Love you!
Happy Birthday Moma Beans!
Posted: October 27, 2010 Filed under: birthday | Tags: birthday, mom 6 Comments »Today is my amazing Mom’s birthday!
She has always been my number one fan and behind me 100% with everything I want to do in life.
She is kind of crazy, but that is why I love her.
She is always up for anything and ready for anything that life gives her.
I love you mom, and I hope you have a great day!
P-A-R-T-Y
Posted: October 10, 2010 Filed under: birthday | Tags: birthday, Fall, flying, Kent, party 5 Comments »Birthday weekend well done!
Starting from last night…
The room was set with steamers and balloons.
My attempt at making lupines out of balloons. Pretty good, no?
Menus were printed.
Flowers were amazing!
Favors were assembled (Homemade maple, almond blueberry granola).
Then it was party time!
My mom’s friends are huge winos, but Nick and I just picked the ones that tasted best to us. I know nothing about mushroom and leather flavors???
My mom looks great for 60 – on the right.
Homemade cream puffs!
There was dancing.
And presents.
Plus lots of champagne!
Overall I think my mom had a blast with a bunch of good friends.
Not the best picture of us, but the only one.
Nick was even there!
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SUNDAY
After walking up a bit later today we had a plan to head out to Kent for the day. The weather has been amazing and the leaves are just about to peak!
This was my favorite tree to watch change during the soccer season.
The old pitch. Pretty nice landscape to play against.
We did the usual round about town and visited the many fall decorations and some of the more permanent art.
Gourds and cheese wheel pumpkins and the Kent Garden Center
This screams fall!
For lunch we attempted to climb to numeral rock, but only made it about half way before calling it quits.
It was pretty steep.
Last stop on the tour was a send off for Andy on his plane.
The sky was amazingly blue today. Not a cloud out there.
I told him I would go up at some point but small planes can make me feel sick. I think Nick would hyperventilate just getting near a plane like this.
There was also a small helo doing practice maneuvers while were were on the tarmac.
And then he was off!
A perfect send off to a busy birthday weekend.
Nick, my mom and I spent the evening grilling and just relaxing with a movie. Now it is time to get some sleep!
