We also bought some cute letter glasses that were on sale:

Friday night, I made bruschetta linguine for dinner, which is one of the first times that I’ve made up my own recipe for something. It was pretty good. I sautéed minced garlic and onions and then added halved cherry tomatoes and fresh basil for just a couple of minutes at the end, mixed it with some olive oil and added it to the linguine, with freshly grated parmesan cheese on top. It really did taste like bruschetta, in pasta-form.

Then Funnel and I went to Easton for some shopping.

I’ve told you before about my obsession with the lovely but out-of-my-price-range Anthropologie. LOVE IT. I have two gift cards there that I got for Christmas and I was dying to use them. So we went, and I was looking for a summery dress, but we ended up buying these pink stackable mugs (that go perfectly with all the sage-green and pink stuff I’ve been buying for our future sage-green & pink kitchen in our future house) and this brown and white plate:

The plate was originally $28, but we got it for $3.99! The mugs were a steal too.

The best part was that Funnel wanted me to save my gift cards for something for me instead of something for us, so there will be more Anthropologieness in the future!

Saturday was Peab’s graduation party. It was a fun time. Lovely weather, spent most of the day outside, got to hang out with friends and friends and ended the night with a bon-fire and the burning of a very dried-out Christmas tree.

Sunday, we accidentally overslept, and then I spent the bulk of the day in my pajamas, playing Mario-Kart with Funnel, with a short break for a round of frolf and a mango Italian ice from Rita’s (thanks to Sarah’s recommendation…its way healthier, and even more delicious than ice cream!). I am obsessed with the new Mario-Kart, especially since you can play it online with people from all over the world (I played against Canadians, Mexicans and the French!)

The weekend before this one was fun too… we went to the Asian Festival downtown and saw Sumo Wrestling and we also went to a Break-Dancing competition at OSU!

Here’s a fun picture of Michaela and me from Memorial Day:

Lastly, the baby geese that live in the pond next to our apartment are almost full-grown and there seem to be so many more of them!

Well, on Christmas day, my brother and Heather gave me a gift card to Anthropologie.  I was beyond excited.  Then, when Funnel and I got home from Massillon and exchanged gifts, he gave me a gift card to Anthropologie too! (He has had to endure much window-shopping, and “oohing and ahhing” when we walk past it at Easton — poor guy.)

So now that they are getting their spring items in, I’ve been stalking their website, daydreaming about what little treasure I will buy myself.

I would love to buy a set of their pretty little green teacups but I have always always always wanted a lovely spring dress from there.

But I think I’m going to save my giftcards for this spring.  There is something kind of disheartening about shopping for summery dresses when I had to scrape ice off my car to do so.

Pieces from Anthropologie are very, very pretty and whimsical and unique.  I own four things from Anthropologie and all of them were bought on sale.  And I am finding that even most of the stuff on sale is out of my price range.

Last night, when we were at Easton, I tried on two of their dresses and I felt very pretty in them, even though I know that I will probably never own either or them.

Here are my spring Anthropologie picks (and their prices, just to give you an idea of how expensive their stuff is):

Modernist Halter Dress, $188

Dahlia Stretch Tunic, $248

Vanilla Grass Dress, $348

Gypsophila Dress, $168

Glass Managerie Cups, $32/set

Lollipop Tumblers, $12/each

Wallpaper plates $40/set

Poppy Curtains, $198-208

If I had a really, really good excuse, I might buy one of their less expensive dresses.  Nothing makes me feel prettier than wearing a lovely dress.

In the words of my father-in-law, Dan, “… one day when I’m rich and famous…”

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Something I love about my husband: He likes to watch nature/animal shows as much as I do.  Last night we ate Pad Thai and watched two epsidodes of BBC’s Planet Earth.

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Tonight a bunch of us are going to a Denison Witmer show at Kenyon College’s Horn Gallery (where we saw Unwed Sailor last year).

I have so many pictures from the last few months to post.  I will get around to it soon, along with the rest of our wedding photos.