My Weekend, in Snapshots

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1) We were invited to a pot luck dinner at our friend's house on Friday evening to watch the Olympic opening ceremonies. On the way, we stopped at Food Lion to pick up beer and discovered this beauty already on shelves!

2) Everyone at dinner happy to be together, confused about the opening ceremony presentation, and waiting to see team USA!

3) Saturday morning was nice and lazy. I cooked brunch, we played with Skwisgaar, and we watched a few Olympic events. After lunch we decided to check out a few thrift stores that I had bookmarked on Yelp. I found a dish, a mint julep cup and a mason jar at the Durham Rescue Misson's Bargain Center and this amazing vintage table at Father & Son's Antiques downtown. It was out of my budget though :(

4) The top floor of Father & Son's Antiques is an art gallery. I was oddly drawn to the telephone with the antlers...

5) After all of our treasure hunting we walked over to The Raleigh Times for a late lunch/ early dinner.

6) On our way home we stopped at the Cupcake Shoppe. They were celebrating their 5th year of business and were giving away free mini cupcakes! We tried a few at the shop (these were Mimosa and maple) and bought two regular size cupcake for later. Yum! There was a huge thunderstorm Saturday night so we decided to stay home with Skwisgaar, enjoy our cupcakes and watch more Olympics.

7) On Saturday we video chatted with our families, cleaned the apartment, took on the laundry, and ran a few errands. Obviously this jar of magical deliciousness found a new home in our refrigerator. I don't know how I had gone so long without it...

8) We went to see and afternoon screening of Ted at the Raleigh Grande. Aaron liked it, but I was not so impressed.

What did you do this weekend?

Friday Favorites

This beautiful Tentacled Cake Stand from BHLDN. I know just the perfect place in our kitchen for this platter. I would know I would be constantly baking something delicious just to keep it stocked with treats! 

Going to the gym every day this week! I have started running on the treadmill and have discovered that it's not as terrible as I remember from high school gym class! Running has never been my strong suit, so it surprised me how much I like it. It was hard at first, but I have been working up to longer and longer stretches of running every day. 5k's here I come!

 

These beauties from Chromatic Gallerie are the same heels that Zooey Deschanel wears on New Girl! I discovered them on a fashion blog earlier this week. Zooey knows best! Even though I have only been wearing sandals to work I really like that they offer multiple heel heights, since I am not crazy about tall heels. I can't decided which color I want to try first! They are thigh up in my shoe price range, but I think they would be a good motivator to get myself to get up and go to the gym every day.

 

The 2012 London Olympic Games are here! Aaron and I are going to a friends house to celebrate and watch the opening ceremony. I can't wait!

Skwisgaar has his very first check-up at the vet today! He has been sneezing consistently ever since we brought him home and he might have an upper respiratory infection (they are common for shelter pets) so we are hoping it's not too bad. 

Also, I want to shout out a big MAZEL TOV to my friends Brittany and Andrew who just got engaged last night! Aaron and I can't wait to celebrate with you!

Hope you have a good weekend!