Hello 2019!

We're 6 days into 2019!  I'm hoping this is a year full of impeachments and indictments.  We shall see!! 

The end of 2018 was pretty great.  We went to Longwood Gardens on Saturday Dec 29, and it was sooo beautiful.  It was definitely crazy busy though, which was a little overwhelming at times!  We haven't gone to the Longwood Christmas lights in many years, so it has definitely gained popularity!! If we go again next year, we will for sure go on a weeknight so it's not as crowded.

We sat on a bench looking at this and talking while it got darker!  It was lovely and relaxing.

These trees were suspended above a pool!  

And now for some less impressive gardens... The cacti in our kitchen window have been blooming like crazy!  We have two Christmas cacti, and they bloomed almost exactly on Christmas!!  Crazy.  The larger one (in the orange pot) used to have light pink flowers, but somehow those were a beautiful light orange color with pink centers this year... I don't know how/why that happened, but I love it.  The smaller one (in the blue-ish pot) has bright pink flowers like it's always had.  

Look at those light orange flowers!!  With light pink centers... so pretty.

On New Year's Day we went into the city to meet up with Timmy (the guy who married us!), and Kevin and Timmy's friend from childhood Sarah and her boyfriend Rob.  Sarah and Rob have been traveling all over Asia for the last 18 months, and they just ended their trip and moved to Philly!   On New Year's Day Philly does the Mummer's Parade, which is always a great time. Sarah and Rob had never experienced it before, so they were loving it. 

 

I made a few New Year's resolutions this year (I always do), and one of them has to do with this blog!  I want to post more this year, because I really slacked last year!  I saw the counts, and I only did 25 posts last year!  And 37 the year prior.  So, I definitely want to do way more than 25 posts in 2019!  My other New Year's resolutions are to cook a lot more (we went out to eat wayyyy too often last year!!), and exercise more (I really slacked off at the end of the year), and eat more vegetables (this is a New Year's resolution almost every year!  I'm bad about eating enough vegetables).  The exercising more is not off to a good start, but I'm going to fix that very soon.  Cooking more is off to a pretty good start, and I decided the best way to do this is to plan out the menu for the week and buy groceries over the weekend.  Last year we were pretty much winging it every day, which led to a LOT of fast food and going out to eat.  So, I definitely did some cooking last week (yay!), and for this next week I have a bunch of meals planned and we shopped for everything today!  If anyone has any amazing recipes we should try (especially if vegetables are involved!!), feel free to email them to me!! :)  

It doesn't look great, but trust me it's amazing!  It's a soup with orzo pasta and chicken meatballs.  It's sooo delicious. 

I hope you all are having a great 2019 so far!!