The View From The Roof

I hope you all had a fun Fourth of July! Brent and I had a good time just hanging out at home. We made a delicious dinner on the grill. I had wild Sockeye salmon (Brent had a NY Strip steak), grilled herbed corn on the cob and a salad with a delicious Feta dressing.
The [...]

Valentine’s Day Dinner

Editor’s Note: This post was written in its entirety by Victoria’s husband, Brent, and has been posted in its original format.
So as Victoria mentioned earlier, it’s become something of a tradition for me to make dinner on Valentine’s Day.  This tradition has its roots in necessity, as when we first married, we were fairly broke [...]

Reflections & Resolutions

Here’s a quick recap of my New Year’s Eve, which was spent in the company of our good friends Tessa & Greg, a Nintendo Wii, and perhaps a little too much wine, champagne and jello shots.

Important things to note about the above series of photographs: Those were the coolest party hats ever, and there was [...]

“Christmas” Dinner 2008, Part 2: Dinner, Dessert and Games

Preparing a huge amount of food isn’t really difficult, and it is certainly made easier when you plan ahead, but everytime I feel completely calm, it seems like the last half hour before the food is to be served is when the shit really starts to hit the fan. I was flying around the kitchen [...]

“Christmas” Dinner 2008, Part 1: Dip & Noodle-making

Yesterday was a long day.  Amidst unusually balmy weather in the afternoon, I prepared a full Christmas feast for my family and in-laws. This may be a monster post. My family left Chicago at 5:15 this morning, so once they arrived they were tired, but also really hungry. I set out a veggie try with [...]

Christmas Breakfast Biscuits

Last night at my in-laws, when I told my mother-in-law that I was making Brent some biscuits for his Christmas morning biscuits & gravy, she patted me on the back and said “You’ve come a long way.” I believe she may have been referring to the first Christmas I spent at their house, like 4 [...]

Family, Friends, Food & Fun

Bear with me. This will be a long post. It was a BUSY, but very fun weekend. We ended up getting into town around 8:30PM Friday night. We stopped by a friend’s house to drop off their goodie box, and then headed over to my cousin Liz’s house to see my brother and some of [...]

Beginning to feel a lot like Christmas

I woke up to my husband saying “Hey it’s snowing!” I remember mumbling something about whether it was sticking. The answer was “Yes it is, and we’re supposed to get more.” We spent most of the day inside, with me setting up the Christmas tree and our stockings. We don’t have very many decorations, and [...]

Quick Recap

We’re back from my parents’ house in Chicago. It was a really fun few days filled with lots of food, drink, family and video games. My mom’s extended family all gathered at my aunt’s house for Thanksgiving. I was in charge of bringing a cheese ball appetizer, which I have no photos of, and the [...]

Halloween 2008

Let me explain something. My friends and I are really into Halloween. We’ve come up with some pretty great costumes in years past.
Here we are Halloween 2005 as “Gangrene”

For Halloween 2006, we went as The Fanta Girls

Halloween 2007 as DEVO!

This was the first year in a long time, none of us were planning to get [...]