Life in the Emerald City

My how the time goes by…it’s been a week since my last post! This week I accepted a position with Mildred’s Big City Food as a line cook, so I can learn how to become a professional chef from some of the best around. In addition, my friend Sarah has taken a new position with her mother’s dentistry practice. Lastly, my friend Joann has joined a top photography team here in Gainesville as their new marketing consultant.

With all the new, exciting things going on in our lives, we decided to take out our boys and celebrate! First we enjoyed a wonderful meal together at O!O Tapas & Tinis where I had a yummy fruit and cheese plate with double martinis and ended with a scrumptious chocolate mousse! Oh yes, I celebrated! Sean skipped the martini and enjoyed a Serrano cheese-wrapped fillet mignon with white asparagus and saucy potatoes. He didn’t celebrate as much as I, but I think he enjoyed his meal!

After lots of laughs over some great food, the idea was thrown out that we should go skating! We decided to take on the challenge and rekindle the memories of our childhoods! See the pictures below:

My how the time goes by…it’s been a week since my last post! This week I accepted a position with Mildred’s Big City Food as a line cook, so I can learn how to become a professional chef from some of the best around. In addition, my friend Sarah has taken a new position with her mother’s dentistry practice. Lastly, my friend Joann has joined a top photography team here in Gainesville as their new marketing consultant.

With all the new, exciting things going on in our lives, we decided to take out our boys and celebrate! First we enjoyed a wonderful meal together at O!O Tapas & Tinis where I had a yummy fruit and cheese plate with double martinis and ended with a scrumptious chocolate mousse! Oh yes, I celebrated! Sean skipped the martini and enjoyed a Serrano cheese-wrapped fillet mignon with white asparagus and saucy potatoes. He didn’t celebrate as much as I, but I think he enjoyed his meal!

After lots of laughs over some great food, the idea was thrown out that we should go skating! We decided to take on the challenge and rekindle the memories of our childhoods! See the pictures below:

New Year’s Day Sean and I traveled to Orlando to watch the Gators play against Michigan. We watched the game with friend at an Orlando residence with good food and great shots. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough to help the gators win…I swear everytime I go to that house the Gators lose! The following day Sean and I went to a Gator basketball game (UF vs. High Point), which we one (see pictures below)! That made up for the previous day’s loss.

Wednesday we went back to work for the new year. Sean’s company is doing very well these days and they are confident they’ll continue to go strong through April. Mackenzie had a fun time hanging out with all the family and friends…she just loves to be social! She also loves to play with her big red ball! Here are some shots!

This weekend I worked some overtime for my job…peak season! In the afternoon, Sean and I took down all our Christmas stuff and put it away for another year. We also trimmed our Crepe Myrtles as we expect to have no more cold weather this season (cross your fingers!) On Sunday we traveled to St. Augustine for a bridal show…we met a billion vendors who work out of Jacksonville, so I’ll be highlighting some of my favs over the next few weeks. Next blog I think I’ll run down the plans for the wedding thus far!

Hopefully this week will be just as fun…it’s certainly starting off right as LSU has just beaten Ohio in true SEC style! Ha ha…try again Buckeyes! Here’s to a great second week of the new year! Ciao!