Friday's Letters

Dear Theatre Movie Line-Up, I am so ready for you! We have already started enjoying your post-summer blockbuster movies and are so ready to spend Friday nights and/or Sunday afternoons seeing movies like Argo, Looper, Django Unchained, The Hobbit, and Les Miserable! (to name a few...)
Dear Nails, I apologize for your great neglect. I'm finding less and less time to make you pretty, but I think about you lots.  Perhaps we can set aside 30 minutes for a nice salon to make them look feminine again.
Dear Pinterest and Polyvore, Please stop taunting me with all your beautiful fall wear! I have already done my shopping for the season and husband says I have to stick to my budget. You are not making this easy.
Dear Friends Who Gave Me a JAR of Hershey's Kisses for My Birthday, I guess it isn't your fault that they are on my desk at work, but you are terrible to me. Don't you know mindless chocolate muching is a bad habit I cannot shake?!
Dear Mother Nature, Please do not rain this weekend. I have big plans of running, eating outdoors, and attending Foxfield Horse Races.  You sent rain last year; I think it is the sun's turn to come out.
Dear Apple, Keeping up with your latest and greatest is like keeping up with the Joneses. How do people do it? iPhone 5, you look fantastic and everything but the 4S and I have barely gotten to know each other... we will probably meet one day when the iPhone 10T comes out.. you know, in like a year.
Dear Blog, Sorry I have no pictures today, but I put up lots yesterday so maybe you can share.




Have a wonderful weeked!!
Love,
DD

Fall To-Dos

Being in Virginia has been pretty wonderful so far.  Yes, at times being away from our family and all of our old friends is very difficult, but we have been so very blessed to meet some wonderful folks here that help to fill the void. There is something that Virginia offers though that, I'm sorry Mississippi, just does not compare to home. I know you all know what I'm talking about. It's all ANYONE is talking about these days... FALL! AUTUMN! HARVEST SEASON! L'AUTOMNE!

 

Really though, what is there not to like? Sweaters, boots, football, beautiful scenery, bonfires.. should I go on? Well I'm going to, because this season the husband and I are trying to absorb everything fall has to offer, especially around Charlottesville. I've created a little bucket list for us, and I plan on checking off every.single.thing.

What to do this Autumn:

 

 

1. Apple Picking
2. At LEAST two winery tours

3. Foxfield Horce Races - if you're not from Cville, just picture a racetrack surrounding a large field of great local food vendors, puppy racing stalls, and carnival-like attractions for kids and families next to tents of obnoxious graduate students in full-on Kentucky Derby wear. It's a can't miss. (Please note the appropriate attire won by husband and me)

4. Pumkpin Picking (or maybe just visiting a pumkpin patch after they've picked the pumpkins...)

5. Hiking Old Rag Mountain. Or really just any hiking that allows us to see views like this one from last fall.
6. Attend multiple Octoberfest events (starting with our first one tomorrow night here!)
7. And last, only because it technically has nothing to do with Virginia, but ALL to do with fall... travel over to Lexington, KY to see our very own Missisippi State Bulldogs!

What are your plans for the fall? My bucket list could always use more inspiration!

Love,
DD

Weekend in Review

TOP LEFT: is my fall inspired chicken, brie, and apple sandwich with homestyle mac & cheese. Seriously? Yes. And I could already eat it again. TOP RIGHT: Joe's Virginia Ham Biscuits on, yep, pumkpin bread. BOTTOM LEFT: When Sunday touted a low temp of 44°, I decided it was time for this pair of Calvin Kleins to make their seasonal debut. BOTTOM RIGHT: With cool temperatures outside and a sick husband inside, there was a lot of couch/kitty snuggling at our house this weekend.

Well hello, Monday! As per usual, this weekend came and went before I realized I was back at work making my first morning cuppa joe. However, my husband and I did manage to squeeze in a few fun activites before the inevitable cold virus fell on our house and took my husband hostage. Which, yes,  has led me to pump my body full of oodles of antioxidant gren tea, every vitamin in our medicine cabinet, and any Vitimin C filled citrus fruit I can get my hands on... hey, my strong-as-an-ox husband is sick for the first time in years, and someone has to take care of him!

But back to happier and healthier days: Joe and I FINALLY double dated up with our new-parent friends to enjoy some delicious food and outdoor weather before going to see Lawless (Tom Hardy. Gary Oldman, Shia Labeouf, Jessica Chastain -- definitely recommend, but beware if you are squeemish!) Nothing beats the Downtown Mall on a 70° Friday night with some seriously good-for-the-soul food and a sweet newborn in tow. What can I say? She was a welcomed fifth wheel; that baby girl is as precious as they come.

The second part our our weekend consisted of a little relaxing, a lot of closet overhauling, taking care of my sick hubby, and of course football.  Our Alma Mater, Mississippi State University, is 4-0!! It was a big night for us Davises crouched in front our baby macbook screens watching a poor quality pay-per-view showing of the football game. It was worth the sacrifice, though, it will VERY exciting to see our guys play live again in a couple weekends in Kentucky. Maroon dresses, tall boots, and cowbells: here we come! Hurray for fall!

Hope all of you had a fabulous first weekend of atumn!
DD