Christmas Eve Meal with Family

2022, Cooking & Baking, Gatherings, Holidays, , , , , , , , ,

Sister Lindsay and brother-in-law Mike were in town for the holidays so I had them over for Christmas Eve with Mom and Jeaux. Yummy dinner, but everything was kind of on the cold side. Bad management.

Holiday cookies

Homemade tomato soup

Scalloped Potatoes Jeaux made

Cornbread Jeaux made

Garlic mushrooms!

Chicken Mom brought

Dessert plate! One of everything.

Christmas Eve group

Halloween Party 2022

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I finally got to have a Halloween party again. 🙂 Friends came! I was dressed as Lapis Lazuli from Steven Universe.

Halloween desserts

Halloween desserts

My Lapis Lazuli costume

My Lapis Lazuli costume

Kari with Pumpkin

Meggie as Vanellope

Katelyn as a butterfly

Dare as Dipper

Benjamin as Luigi

Rachael in faire garb

Michael in faire garb

Rina in a flower outfit

Jeaux as Jamie

Meg with pumpkin roll

Kari with dessert

Jeaux and Dare

Me at my party

Me with Meg

Jeaux as Jamie

Party group

Meggie & Dare

Fifth Day in New York with Jeaux!

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Our fifth day in the city included Strand indie bookstore (where Jeaux found a copy of my book on the shelf!), coffee with my coworker Deepa, pizza with my friend Amin, and a rooftop dinner at Peak (where we also got to go out onto the Edge), and a New York cheesecake for Jeaux from Ferrara’s!

Outside Strand

Inside Strand

My book at Strand

My book on the shelf at Strand

Coffee with Deepa

Meeting Amin at Marta

Jeaux at Peak

Ivy at Peak

My daiquiri at Peak

Jeaux & Ivy at Peak

View at Peak

Strawberry Daiquiri at Peak

Farm Egg at Peak

Squash at Peak

Ferro at Peak

At the Edge

At the Edge

At the Edge

At the Edge

At the Edge

At the Edge

At the Edge

Jeaux’s NY cheesecake

Cookie in a hoodie

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Fourth day in New York with Jeaux!

2022, Vacations, , , , ,

Jeaux and I spent our fourth day in the city seeing a Broadway show (A Strange Loop), eating dinner on a rooftop (Haven), going shopping (Nintendo store and Midtown Comics), and getting frozen yogurt (Sixteen Handles)!

Subway goers

Seeing A Strange Loop

A Strange Loop

Coffee while waiting for Haven

Dinner at Haven with Jeaux

Dinner at Haven with Jeaux

With Pikachu at Nintendo Store

With Link at Nintendo Store

Pipe at Nintendo Store

Midtown Comics

Frozen yogurt at 16 Handles

Third day in New York City with Jeaux!

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On our third day in New York City, Jeaux and I rode the Subway, went to the Museum of Natural History, and watched comedy at the Comedy Cellar!

Jeaux’s first subway ride in NYC

Rocks!

Planetarium!

Rocks!

Trilobites!

Bones!

Lucy!

Early sculptures

Meteorites

Jeaux with moon rocks

Ivy with Amethyst geode

Garnets!

BIG GARNET

Dinos!

Dinos!

Dinos!

Jeaux taking a picture of a dino

Dinos!

Dinos!

Dinos!

Dinos!

Dinos!

Dinos!

Dinos!

Dinos!

Dinos!

Dinos!

Comedy Cellar with Jeaux