First Blogger Meet-up December 23, 2010

After making some amazing friends through blogging, I finally had my first blogger meet-up. Since I was in Charleston, I got in touch with Amanda who invited Megan who invited her sister, and we met at Charleston’s Cafe for breakfast before I hit the road for home.

I always read about Charleston’s Cafe on Erica’s blog, so the parfait was a must-try! I rolled the Blueberry Breakfast parfait with banana, blueberry, almonds, vanilla yogurt, granola, and honey. It was so filling and delicious. I love the crunch of granola with the smoothness of yogurt.

and coffee, of course! It was a great blend and perfectly brewed. I was tempted to buy the ground mixture, but I’m saving $ for Christmas shopping, you know. The yellow coffee mug was calling my name too…restraint on the dishes!

Thank-you ladies for a wonderful meet-up. I had a blast getting to know you, and I hope that we get to do it again soon!

What fun meet-ups have y’all done? Aaaaand if any of y’all are ever in my neck of the woods, you better let me know so we can meet-up! 😉

Anatomy Lesson: A is for Apple December 17, 2010

My childhood best friend is home from grad school at UT-Austin. We’re both proud to be Fuquay girls, so we keep it local when we meet up. Today we met for lunch at

I rolled with the sampler platter of hummus, fruit salad, tabouli, baba ganoush, and bean salad. It was so flavorful…and coloful! I did not eat the bread.

We had such an amazing time catching up. I absolutely love her and am so thankful for our friendship! It’s rare to still have a close friend from when you were 5.

Pretty flower on our table 😉 The couple who owns the restaurant always has fresh flowers on the tables everyday.

Look what I saw on the way out…

Varina is getting a cupcake shoppe!!!!! WOOHOO! I can’t wait to go here (and blog about it hehe).

I ran some Christmas errands then came home and was hunnnnnngry. Time to use my new glass…A is for apple. 😉

The anatomy of my parfait in my A cup is:

• greek yogurt
• Naturally More (since I didn’t have any this morning)
• crushed moravian cookies from a Christmas party I went too
• repeat

and I had a real apple. Yummy! Now I’m waiting for wine o’clock with my Mom, contemplating baking/decorating/working out again. Dinner with the fam and Christmas lights tonight…get EXCITED!!!!! Have a wonderful evening y’all!

Have you heard the Dave Barnes/Hillary Scott duet, Christmas Tonight? I LOVE it! What’s your new favorite (or old favorite) Christmas song?