happy birthday baby gavin

one of my best friends, rachel, has a son named gavin who is just the cutest little boy to ever walk (oops crawl) this planet. i call him my little nephew and i am his auntie kail. yesterday, he had his first birthday party! it was so darling and so fun.  rachel did such a tremendous job with all the homemade decorations and little yummy treats.  she is seriously such a wonderful mother, and one of the most beautiful too.  here are just a few of the photos i snapped to make sure we always remembered this very special occasion. congratulations rachel and andrew on a beautiful baby boy who is becoming such a handsome little man as he grows up.

new friends//new fun

i spent a majority of february making new friends and spending time with my dear loves that i can never get enough of.  can i just tell you it was so fun?  i got to go on a few dates which were fantastic and got to know people who were wonderful as well. cheers to friends :)

-new friend v and myself

-candy because i obviously LOVE candy. there were so many choices! i was so overwhelmed! eep!

-coffee with one of my best friends christine. we call her cricky. she is lovely. that day we enjoyed tea at rembrandts coffee house, which is my favorite place in all of boise quite possibly.

-rachel won bunko so she obviously had to wear the crazy hat at bunko night with all the daycare ladies! we have that once a month.

-most delicious glass of wine ever courtesy of sterling at the restaurant he works at (R&R Public House). the food there is delicious! such great salads, grilled asparagus, spicy tomato soup, and hamburgers. their beer and wine selection is amazing as well. mmm!

-mimosas and breakfast also courtesy of sterling at goldy's.  we went with his friend jared who, i may add, looks like he could be mario lopez' little brother. goldy's is this cute little breakfast place in downtown boise. i love it. the inside of the place is amazing.

-i made dinner for sterling one night (in the next four pictures). I made cappelini pomodoro all by myself. It was delicious, but i could have used a smidge more garlic. such a fun night!

all in all, I love making new friends and meeting new people. the end.

boise trip circa july 2011

sorry for the delay of these photos as well. i got to see so many wonderful, beautiful people while i was home last month and finally made my decision to move home as soon as possible. im back in boise this very moment visiting right now and (so excited at this news) getting a new car, but hopefully ill be all moved back by the end of september. wish me luck. enjoy!

lunch with rachel (circa july 2011)

about a billion years ago, i went to boise to visit my family and friends. okay it was only a month ago, and now im actually back in boise right now, but i haven't been able to update my blog in so long that it actually feels like its been quite some time since ive been home. sorry for the lack of updating. not having a computer or internet in arizona is hard.

while i was in boise i was so lucky to be able to see my beautiful friend (who i consider a sister to me) rachel and her little boy gavin. he is the best nephew a girl could ask for.  it totally makes me want a baby.  i mean okay, yes i can definitely wait a few years and i surely do not mind admiring everyone else's babies while i wait, but he is just so darn cute! and she is the greatest mom i may have ever laid eyes on. i love both of them very much. oh and on our little lunch date, we went to the brick oven bistro which is is our place to venture when we go on our said lunch dates.

p.s. if i can be half the mom rachel is someday, i'd be one very proud, happy mama.

our very own gryffindor common room

we made our own common room last night. yes you read that correctly. kylie and i made our very own gryffindor common room last night. you see...i put the sorting hat on and was sorted into GRYFFINDOR. (really people, did you you expect anything less?)

and i thought (out loud of course) "KYLIE we HAVE to make a common room somehow!!" so, we created a fort in the living room.

and yes it was amazing. and no im not pouting. then we decided to try on our invisibility cloaks that obviously worked because you definitely CANNOT see us in the next two photos despite our best efforts to make us known that we are in fact extremely visible.

also kylie forgot that it wasn't july, the month in which christmas is sometimes celebrated, but mostly the month in which we celebrate our fellow classmate harry potter's birthday...

after all of this documentation of our amazingness we decided to take a best friend picture and get back to studying our spells. our owls are coming up. duh. THE END.

 

happy birthday to my favorite brothers

my dear friends jake and jordan had their birthday the other day. they were my first friends here in arizona. the two boys turned twenty-two (obviously they are twins thats why they have the same birthday duh.) anyways, we all went out to a bar called stray cat and after we went over to jake's house where all their friends came over. i brought them each a dozen red velvets with green dots on them from sprinkles (red velves and the color green are both of their faves).

most of the end of the night was kinda blurry (oopsies!) but i know what i did remember was pretty alright, even if i did get tackled and fell over a couch...and even if i burnt my hand on a lean cuisine when i got home (dont ask). i know i met a lot of beautiful people that night too and i know that i made a fool of myself a lot but as long as jordan and jake had a good night then thats all im worried about.

so happy birthday to two of my most favorite brothers. you'd be lucky to have friends like them in your life. so if you ever get the chance to meet them, don't take that for granted.

and a photoshoot in the "washroom" as josie calls it :)

who knew vegetarian food could be so delicious

last week i went to lunch with my dear friends micah and josie and josie's precious puppy melishka. im not sure how to spell her puppy's name but she is so sweet and darling. micah is a pescetarian, so we went to a vegetarian restaurant in scottsdale called green. looking at the place from the outside you would NEVER realize or even think to stop by. it was in a little strip of businesses in a dark grey building and a somewhat empty parking lot. i mean, i definitely would not have known this fantastic place really existed. so thank you to miss micah!

it was so delicious. i had the sweet and sour bowl, and i had vegetarian chicken in it. i was kind of nervous to try it. i mean...meat that isn't...meat? its weird to think about. but i will tell you now...i couldnt even tell a difference. it was wonderful.

you can bet i will definitely be eating there again.

fabulous feature friday !!

so today i am featuring another one of my new friends here in arizona. her name is ashely hanson and she is sooo naturally pretty its insane! im really excited that she was the first one to write me back about featuring someone today for the blog for my new feature friday posts. not only does she work at sprinkles with me, she works at j. crew as well. hello how amazing is that store? i can tell that she and i are going to have a great friendship and i am lucky to have her here in arizona.

here are ten things that make ashley very, very happy:

1. marc jacobs bargains
2. cute boys
3. seafood/sushi
4. friends and family
5. the beach
6. a good run

7. laughing so hard she pees her pants and being goofy

8. corny jokes
9. flowers
10. getting into good trouble

oh and she just informed me she forgot one!

11. concerts

so there you have it. a little insight into ashley's happiness.  what are some things that make you happy?
if you'd like to be featured feel free to e-mail me your happy list { minniekaileigh@yahoo.com }

feeling a tad bit off

have you ever had those weeks where you just feel off? or even just days when you don't feel like yourself? i feel like the past week i have been feeling exactly like that. and i dont like it. im trying to get back into the swing of things. i mean there is so much to be happy about. so to try and feel more positive and happy i have composed a list of things that have made me happy this week.

1. i started officially working at sprinkles! i was training before but now i officially on the schedule.

2. i have gotten to hang out with my new friend kylie twice already. she is adorable and so cute! she recently started blogging as well. 

3. kylie and i have made plans to do a bake entry once week that we will both feature on our blogs.

4. i watched love actually last night. well most of it...i was playing "words with friends" at the same time so it became a little distracting.

5. i started my healthy diet. i have been doing really well on it and have already lost 2.2 pounds. i am so excited!

6. i found a half marathon that i am thinking about training for. if you know me, you know that i hate running. i kind of want to do it so that i can just say that i ran a half marathon once in my life.

7. the half marathon I'm considering running takes place in disneyland. its the tinkerbell half marathon.

8. i am loving being healthy. 

9. i have been fast food free for three days and my body feels great.

10. the other night at work we had extra cupcakes leftover that were mess-ups from the new people being trained as frosters the other day. i got to take home thirty-three. they're all in my freezer don't worry.

ps here are some photos i found that i think are so sweet and adorable.