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Weekend Things: December Nights

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Friday night at the Sie watching Christmas Vacation with an audience full of ugly sweaters and adult eggnog.  Saturday night at the Ogden watching Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats from the second row.  Sunday night at the Buell watching Buddy the Elf sing and dance.  This time of year is busy but in the best way possible ♥

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The Sie is running a holiday movie series and even though I sort of wanted to see A Muppet Christmas Carol, Christmas Vacation seemed more age appropriate so Friday night, we took ourselves out to a 9:30 PM showing like a couple of young fun people.  I love that part when Beverly D’Angelo says “what can I say except, it’s Christmas and we’re all in misery.”  Ha!

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Saturday, we took ourselves to dinner at Dos Santos, where Joey ate his “favorite salsa EVER,” I ate a carrot taco (I would!) and we took a shot with out waitress before walking over to the Ogden.  Doors opened at 8 but when we got there at 8:40 we were able to walk right to the front, meaning we were mere feet from the action!  I’ve never been so close.  This show was so incredibly fun and this band is a pure delight to watch.  If you ever have the chance to see them live, GO!

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Sunday night was set around our annual holiday show, starting with dinner at Euclid Hall and ending with Elf the Musical.  I think everyone (myself included!) dug Euclid and now that I’ve eaten their cheese curds, I can die happy.  It was the last performance for Elf so it was a full house, with lots of people dressed in elf costumes or beard ornaments or Cowboys ugly sweaters.  I guess that last one was just Joey 🙂

Besides these three incredible nights, this weekend involved hot yoga, rounding out our Christmas shopping, baking eggnog banana bread mini loaves and me visiting the baby AGAIN.  I can’t stop!  But in all fairness, I just wanted to bring my mom and sister over to meet him plus holding a baby makes all life’s worries disappear.

How was your weekend?!

Weekend Things

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How do you pick a favorite moment in a weekend filled with good moments?  Easy.  You meet your best friends’ baby ♥♥♥

The little guy was born Saturday night and I am so in love!  You forget how teensy newborns are until you see one and he is so teensy.  Plus, to the shock of us all, he looks more like Hannah than Josh.  If there’s one thing we had all banked on, it was that he would be born with a head full of dark hair, but the joke’s on us.  I’m so proud (and in awe) of Hannah and Josh for bringing this beautiful babe into the world.  My best friends are parents, whoa!

In other news, even if that hadn’t happened, this weekend would have been a good one.  Mostly because of Friday tacos, The Santa Clause, breakfast with my family, the Studio C CD release, Christmas tree buying/decorating, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, ricotta pancakes and that feeling of having fit it all in without feeling frantic.

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Guys, I actually can’t stop making these fried broccoli tacos with “chorizo” dip and avocado cream from The Savvy Cook but I also don’t want to stop, so there’s that.  It’s a bit of work what with the dip and the cream and the actual breading of the broccoli but if you split it up between two people, it’s not such a big deal plus you can freeze the extra dip and make it easier on yourself for next time.

P.S. You all know my love for The Santa Clause, but is that part where Charlie says Neil won’t come in because “you’ll just end up saying something snotty” and Tim Allen responds with “not necessarily, could be rude or sarcastic, whatever it takes” not the best thing ever??

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A Saturday of miracles: I convinced my mom to go to Snooze before KBCO and my mom convinced my sister to get up before 7 AM to join us.  A win for everyone!  But being up early on a Saturday isn’t so bad when the sky looks like that and breakfast is this good.  We got over to the CD line just after 8 AM so things were already moving but they had us winding all through Whole Foods and I’ve never seen them do that before!  Soundtrack for the rest of Saturday’s errands was definitely this CD.  I’m not super into X Ambassadors but their song might be my favorite.

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We hit the mall, where I proceeded to buy a new phone case and screen protector (nothing like buying stuff for yourself at Christmas…), then decided to go pick out a tree.  I saw someone post a picture where they had set their tree inside a galvanized bucket and I thought it looked so nice and clean and immediately needed one too.  I love it!  I think this is our prettiest tree yet!  Though those branches aren’t the strongest.

P.S. Do you LOVE those ornaments from my mother-in-law or what?!  I can’t get over how perfectly personalized they are!

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Aside from meeting Baby Mason, Sunday involved ricotta pancakes, an outdoor run, salad-in-a-jar prep and dinner.  So food, apparently 🙂  I’d been wanting to make that hasselback butternut squash for so long and I finally did it.  I sort of wish I had cooked it for another ten minutes but I was hungry and sort of over it.  Still turned out really good though and those Swedish meatballs are AMAZING!

How was your weekend?!