week in review

this week has been busy with holiday preparations, and today is even busier because i am baking all of my pies today.  here's a few highlights from the week.

nutella pastries  (drop dollops of nutella into crescent roll dough, roll and bake as directed!)

behind the scenes of coco's photoshoot


tonight we are decorating our tree, and i love our mushroom ornaments!  so excited to hang them up.

arlington cemetery

today started out with a clear plan, we had an outdoor photo shoot planned for coco, but due to the heavy rain it got rescheduled.  since we were all dressed anyway we decided to head to my husband's work to pick up some documents, and on our way out my husband stopped to show me some of a funeral ceremony.  now i know that sounds crazy, to take your family to see a funeral but its my husbands job, and in all of the four years he's had it, i've never seen it.  my husband works at the arlington cemetery where he not only does the funerals of our fallen soldiers and war heroes and others, he is one of the ones who carries the caskets.  very humbling.  it was beautiful to watch, and the rain and foliage as the backdrop made it that much more intense.  i have a whole new appreciation to what he does.  after we watched a few minutes we stopped by iwo jimma, and then we walked the arlington cemetery where he explained more of an average day of work, and we even got to see the tomb of the undead soldier.  it was so surreal, and i am so lucky to live so close to so much history and so glad to be able to share it with coco.  i'm going to be so heartbroken when its time to leave virginia in a year, because it is the only place i've lived since i began my love affair with america a few years ago and i can't imagine living anywhere else!

afterwards we lightened the mood by eating the best sandwich at jimmy johns (stuffed with alfalfa sprouts, i LOVE alfalfa sprouts), my new grumpy old men slipper socks came in the mail, and we had a circus puppet show.

i really wish i had taken more photos, but it was a sporadic visit and my phone was dying so i present our day via instagram.

a little sprucing up

finally hung up some pictures in my room. my cat is adorable.

finally not procrastinating

all morning i have been online trying to order christmas gifts for coco, i'm basically done with the online shopping i got him some games for his ds, and some books, story telling cards and the only thing he really asked for... that toy story dumpster toy set.  now all that's left to do is go to ikea and get him a new art table/art supplies.  he's very simple.  i've been super productive and even ordered the husby madden 12.

since i woke up at 4 am this morning i started to window shop online in-while watching that 90s teen movie called Drive Me Crazy and half asleep me decided to finally buy myself a couple shirts and two other things.  this is very rare because every time i get just a little extra money, i spend it on coco (very willingly) i'm so excited, i love getting packages!  these are the two i'm obsessing over.

'girl about town' lipstick by mac, it's so beautiful!

prague lace up boots (the grey)

yawn

good morning, I've been awake since 430 blah. hope everyone has a lovely day!