Ma

We got some shocking, awful news on Thursday. My grandmother, my mom's mom, was hit by a truck and died instantly. She was 86, and she was in incredible shape - still driving, off to play bridge that morning she was hit. 

I've been laying pretty low since then. It's taken me a while to absorb the news, and I haven't felt up to doing much. Thankfully, this was our first weekend all summer that we haven't been traveling or had something crazy going on, so we got to spend lots of time skyping with family and hanging out at home. We'll head to Indianapolis on Thursday to be with family and celebrate Ma's life. 

This is the most recent photo I have with Ma on my computer. I wore her dress - the same dress she had worn for her wedding in the 50's - when we got married in October. I'm so thankful we got to share that day with her.

My Sisters Have a Blog!

Most of you who know me know Laura Grace, my one and only sister, but she and her best friend Alison (who is also like a sister to me!) have started their own blog. Check out Meet Me at the Stop Sign!

(Here are Alison and Laura Grace at our English wedding. Don't you love all the fascinators?!)

My sister is so cool

That's an ostrich you see her riding! Outside of Nairobi. She is so cool and I am so jealous and sad that I'm not there with her.

Petey Graduated!

This weekend, we flew to Birmingham to watch my little brother Peter graduate from Samford. Lots more pictures were taken than my one iPhone pic on the right, but I don't have them now. I may share them later if I get them and get organized! But for now, you get little Petey with a mullet and Petey the graduate. So proud. 

Redwood forest

I haven't posted much about the senior Prices trip to California, and I wanted to share some pictures from our trip up north to the redwoods. John and Margaret wanted to go see the redwoods, so we drove up to Russian River Valley, spent a night in an adorable inn, and spent the next day looking at redwoods and doing a little champagne and wine tasting. I had never been to any of the redwood forests, and it was incredible to see these giants in real life.

 We were right by Korbel when we left the park, so we stopped by so that all of us, especially Margaret, could enjoy some champagne. I like this picture of Jonny and his parents. 

It was such a fun little weekend trip and a holiday from John and Margaret's San Francisco holiday. 

Ferrying across the Bay

I know it's been oh so long since I've touched this blog, and for all 13 of my readers, I'm sorry! The Prices have been in town for the past two weeks, so we've been focusing most of our free time on spending it with them. We had a great visit, and I'll be sharing more pictures soon. 

For now, I'll share some pictures from the ferry to Sausalito. One of my favorite things to do with friends from out of town is to take them on a ferry ride across the bay. The ferry boasts of being "the second most beautiful ferry ride in the world" which, for one, is a weird thing to brag about, but also, I don't know what ferry ride is more beautiful. My iPhone photos don't do it justice. 

I love that I can walk to work from where we live now, but riding the ferry and seeing people commuting home on it made me think I wouldn't mind a commute if it were a ferry commute!

Our weekend in Instagram

I'm counting the weekend as starting on Thursday night. Jonny's birthday is next Tuesday, and I picked him up from the airport on Thursday night in his birthday surprise....

I had managed to sneak around and buy a car (with lots of help from Josh and Ashley!) and Jonny knew nothing about it until he got to drive it home from the airport. My parents were also in town this week and weekend. My dad had work here, and my mom tagged along to hang out. 

We loved having them here, and my parents really took advantage of everything San Francisco had to offer, including riding our tandem through Golden Gate Park, visiting Kiva, going to Tartine FOUR times, meeting a bunch of our friends at a brunch we hosted at our house, and wine-tasting in Napa. Here's Daddy after a few tastings:

It was kind of a dreary day, but Napa was beautiful even when it was grey.

Here we are outside of Francis Coppola's estate.

I loved these lights. We had them at our wedding too, and I just think they have an awesome effect. 

All in all, we had such a fun-filled but also somehow relaxing weekend. Now my parents are back in Nashville, Jonny's on his way to Toronto, and I'm getting ready to read some of Delivering Happiness, write some very delayed thank-you notes, and get prepped for this week at work. Hope you all had lovely weekends too!

Londontown

Jonny and I spent Christmas with his family in London. My first ever Christmas away from Tennessee with my family, my first ever white Christmas, and our first ever Christmas as a married couple.

(1) The tube stop for the Prices - Harrow on the Hill

(2) Regent Street lit up for Christmas

(3) Dinner at Jonny's friend Tom's family restaurant right by Oxford Circus. This meal was amazing. Tom's dad didn't give us menus and just kept sending people out with more and more great food. He also treated us to champagne, wine, port, and amaretto and made sure both our glasses and plates were always full. 

(4) After dinner at Tom's family restaurant, Jonny decided to sing "With or Without You" with the subway musician.

(5) Trying out our self-timer with Jonny's parents at New Year's Eve dinner

We had such a great time - I wish I'd taken more pictures! Happy 2011!

Nothing Short of Thankful

We spent this Thanksgiving in Nashville and had a fun time full of food (not only the Thanksgiving day feast but Pancake Pantry and SATCO and lots of other Nashville favorites), family (all 3 of my siblings were home for Thanksgiving for the first time in 5 years!), and football (including witnessing the Deacs beat the Dores and watching the on-field fight between Andre Johnson and Cortland Finnegan).

To explain the pictures, our whole family ran the Boulevard Bolt, a 5 mile race that takes place at 8am on Thanksgiving day. We all dressed up, and as you can clearly see, Jonny was the Mayflower since he came over from England. He ran a full five miles with a pinata boat strapped to the top of his head! We did a bunch of other things that we didn't take pictures of, but we did document Ben Folds with the Nashville Symphony, which was a really awesome show. The last photo is Jonny, me, Loin, and Lod after the show. 

I just kept thinking all weekend about how much we have to be thankful for. Hope your Thanksgivings were happy!

My Sister's Yellow Coat on The Sartorialist

I like to tell my little sister Laura Grace that she copies everything I do (and for the most part, it's true!). But I have to give her credit for being the first one to buy a yellow JCrew coat (pictured above on me and below on someone on The Sartorialist). I copied her and picked out a different yellow coat from JCrew a year later.