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Our weekend in Santa Cruz

When we weren’t looking at rentals, getting lost or admiring our surroundings, we were at Olive’s (a gal I get to work with soon!). Her place was darling. I loved her kitchen sink and organic products throughout. Hopefully she doesn’t mind that I snapped some pics!

I wish my name was Olive. I’d be all over that.

Heather made it a point to take us to West Cliff Drive so we could check out the dog beach. I can’t wait to take Tacoma! Look how stinkin’ cute Heather’s dog Rudy is!

The boys chatting.

We enjoyed our down time, too. Kicked off the Tom’s, drank some local red wine, cooked dinner and watched movies. Have you all seen Midnight in Paris? The music and scenery are SOOOO romantic. I might need to go to France sooner than I thought.

Good news is, we found a place to live and it’s PERFECT!! Rob also got to meet everyone at my new office, which I thought was pretty cool. For more on our weekend, check Heather’s weekend in pictures!

See you soon Santa Cruz!

February 16, 2012 by cherjoy

Friends, Projects

Our mini Alt

If you’re in the blogging world, I’m sure you’ve heard about the Alt Design Summit. There are blog posts galore about how fabulous the retreat is, especially when you get to hear from some of the most creative and innovative bloggers out there. Kristin and I were sad to have missed it this year and will hopefully get our registration in early for the next one.

For more about Alt, you can watch this great video or read these recaps by Oh Happy Day and Oh Hello Friend.

As you may know, One Pretty Place and I like to have blogging parties (where we kick the boys out of the house and blog for hours at a time). For this recent one, I called it a “mini Alt”, a night of blogging and brainstorming! Normally we are in jammies, but because we did dinner out before we got dressed up.

Don’t mind my Color Run tattoo ;)

Love Kristin’s new glasses!

And her leopard print flats.

While we blogged we watched some empowering movies (like The Devil Wears Prada and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days), sipped on red wine and cocktail jelly bellies and put dents in our to-do lists.

February 7, 2012 by cherjoy

Family, Friends, Tempe

The Color Run

My sister and I joined my friend Melissa and the rest of the ‘We Color Outside the Lines‘ team in The Color Run last weekend. We had a blast! The minds behind The Color Run ask that you wear all white at the start of the race. So, we did.

Love her.

Before.

(Picture taken by Melissa)

After.

The “Color Extravaganza” at the end was by far the best part! My favorite was the teal color.

(Picture taken by Melissa)

I had Tipped Out hair for a day!

February 2, 2012 by cherjoy

Food, Friends

Dinner with the Thomsons

Kristin really outdid herself this week. Not only was the meal sweet & delicious…

But the dessert took the CAKE! Literally ;)

(Pics by Kristin)

It’s called Toasted Marshmallow Fudge Cake. And it melts in your mouth. Recipe is here via Confessions of a Cookbook Queen. Enjoy!

January 29, 2012 by cherjoy

Family, Friends, Holidays, Lately, Scottsdale

‘Tis the Season

We’ve kicked off the holiday season with some fun activities lately! It smells like Christmas here in Arizona and I love it.

Tree lighting @ the Scottsdale Biltmore:

Movie in the Park @ the Biltmore – movie was Christmas Vacation:

Decorated Gingerbread houses with the fam:

Ours in the middle with the blackberry bushes, whipped cream snow and dog houses won 1st place!

Look at this soup that Rob’s Grandma Margie made. It involved mussels, crab, shrimp, and scallops – all of which I love. I hope they serve this in heaven!!!!!