What the F do you do with a hundred apples?

Three more Mondays to get through before we skidaddle on over to DisneyWorld! While I'm not one for rushing through days/weeks, I am just in desperate need of a vacation! Especially to one of my favorite places in the world :-)

Speaking of DisneyWorld, that little half marathon we are running while we are there, well our training took a turn for the "holy shit" when we ran 10 miles yesterday. TEN MILES. I honestly wanted to cry afterwards out of pain and overall excitement because a year ago I could barely run 2 miles without dying. Therefore, I feel like I birthed an elephant over the weekend because my legs/hips are screaming at me. I also may or may not have had a temper tantrum at mile 4, causing me to throw my running watch onto the ground like a child throws a toy. Oy...

But let me back up to Saturday! It was a perfect day and I just knew we had to go get apples and pumpkins. We went to Honey Pot Orchards which is in Stow, Massachusetts! I also decided to finally brush off the cobwebs of my camera and took her out with us. It had been like, a MONTH people! I almost forgot how to press the buttons.

If you look real close, you'll see how Kurt got assaulted by an apple tree branch and cut his head

As I sit here, knowing theres a giant bag of apples in my kitchen, I have to wonder; what in God's name do we need a million apples for? I love apples the most as is...crunching into them, but do you think the appeal of apple picking is actually going to pick them and that's it? I need some ideas of what to make with apples besides the normal pie or apple crisp! I'm kind of loving these baked apple cinnamon chips. What else can I make?!

Saturday night, kurt and I tried a new place for dinner in the South End in Boston, called Toro. It is tapas style and absolutely delicious! We got amazing bread, brussel sprouts, garlic shrimp with a red sauce, grilled steak/caramelized onions and potatoes. My mouth is watering just thinking of it!!

I also decided this was the night I would wear my spicy new leather leggings. You guys...I know they look like they're part skin, but they are so unbelievably comfy and they fit like a glove without that whole, omg I need to shake my butt and wiggle all around to get into them.

Before I go, it is a special lady's birthday today! Guess who....

Miss Sabrina! Happy Birthday to one of the most beautiful people, inside and out, that I've ever met! Love you and hope today is the most amazing day in the world!!

Link up with Sami and tell us about your weekend! Hope you have a fabulous day :-)

Blowin' Money Fast into the Weekend

Kurt is currently sitting across from me on the couch sniffling, coughing and just overall looking pathetic. I can't complain though because as much as guys bitch and moan when they're sick, they're kinda cute!

Last night I went all mommy and created chicken soup from scratch. I then demoted myself by making break apart frozen cookies (but aren't those always so much better sometimes??)

Anywho, I am kind of kicking myself this week. I've been letting the littlest things bother me, depress me, make me sad, and I hate that! On Wednesday I had full intentions of blogging, but I woke up early for a morning meeting conference call and shit just hit the fan and BOOM---automatic mood buster; don't you just hate that?

How I felt...^

On a better note, today is Friday and how can you complain about Friday? This weekend Kurt promised that we could go and get some pumpkins and apples, just like every other human being has been doing this fall except for me. Even though we will only get to enjoy them for about 2 weeks because then we are jet setting off to Disney, I still want them! More on my Disney trip to come since I know you are all iiiitching for details ;-) Speaking of Disney and pumpkins, I'm determined to carve a Mickey pumpkin like this:

I guess we'll see how that catastrophe turns out

Like on Wednesdays we wear pink, on Friday we shake our booty's! Linking up with Whitney this week with a song that is the exact opposite of what I should be doing. Lately I've been throwing money around like I'm a Cash Money Millionaire and that's just not okay...however it is okay for Rick Ross.

My parents surprise 30th anniversary party!

This past weekend was one for the books! :-) Let's back up to this past spring when one of my best friends Liz and her sister threw their parents a surprise 30th wedding anniversary party. I thought to myself, okay my parents 30th is coming up in October....I want to surprise them! So that's what my sister and I did this past Saturday---surprised the mess out of them!

Let's get one thing straight. My mom is the most DIFFICULT person in the world. My sister Lauren and I were quite worried about how we would pull this off and make sure 80 people kept their mouths shut!

The way we got our parents to the restaurant we had the party at, was by telling them I won a $300 wine tasting and wine basket at work to this restaurant and it was on a heated rooftop bar. We had to throw in the rooftop bit because the room for the party happened to be upstairs as well---so we had to make them come upstairs! Well, I made the mistake of telling my mom that my gift basket came with information on the tasting. She asked me to bring it over so she could see it, and yeah....I had to create some fake flyer/brochure thing to make her buy it. Ridiculous right!

If that wasn't bad enough, the night I came over to show her the wine information, she said I could call the restaurant to see what it was all about and to see if we could bring 10 people (my sister's boyfriend parents came up that weekend for the "long weekend" but were totally in on the surprise). I had to fake a call to the restaurant all while my mom's behind me saying things like "ask them this, ask them that." Told ya she was difficult! Thankfully my dad just went with the flow for everything.

The night of the party, I got there an hour earlier than my parents to greet all the guests and such, all while furiously texting my sister to make sure the plan was going to work. I got the text that they arrived and Kurt and I headed downstairs to the hostess stand to pretend like we had just gotten there and were waiting. I handed the hostess my fake flyer and she brought us up to the "wine tasting," and well, the rest is history! They had absolutely ZERO idea!!

My mom has the worst problem keeping eyes open in photos!

Lauren and I could not BELIEVE we pulled this off. My mom cried, my dad couldn't even SPEAK he was so shocked! The first thing my mom said was "I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN MORE DRESSED!"

We partied until almost 1 am with food, an open bar, cake, laughs and music! Just looking at these pictures from the night and seeing my parents, family and friends all celebrating 30 years of my parents, has me SO happy! It was such a fantastic night that I will never forget!