Cheers and Champagne

My little sister is engaged! A group of friends headed to Pops for Champagne in the city at Ohio and State.  We had a blast!  You know I love my champagne, and my sister and I have true love for Rosé champagne so we enjoyed a few (many) (lots) of delicious bubbly.  Our love of Rosé anything began when Katie was studying abroad in France, more specifically Aix en Provence.  It was there and throughout France that my love for rosé wine and champagne developed.

I had two favorite champagnes tonight: the Jean-Baptiste Adam Cremant D'Alasce Rosé from the border area between France and Germany and the Raventos- Blanc de Nit Rose.  This second bottle was sent to our table from Katie's friend Lauren who she was paired up with when she studied in France.  It's a from Spain, but it was still phenomenal :)

We cheered to Katie and her upcoming wedding events, and celebrated this exciting time for everyone!  Pops was the perfect place to do this!

Thanks Lauren for the bottle of bubbly!

Cheers to the Bride to Be!

And the just kept coming...

Can we find these light fixtures, love them!

These 2 have been friends for 26 years.  Love.

Enjoying the night!

Taco Bar and Game Nights

What makes the heart happy?  Tacos and Board games.  It's a fact.

My friends and I got together for a Saturday night of board games and delicious Mexican food!

Let's talk the food.  We had beef, shredded chicken, cilantro rice, beans, and all the toppings.  Yum.  I love the way we set it up- made clean up, the worst part, an absolute breeze!  I picked up a roll of kraft paper at the Dollar Store... holla!  Some cute labeling with my sharpies (you know I can't stop with sharpies) and we had a fun taco bar set-up!

My second favorite item of the evening was the Scrabble Pencils! Yep, Scrabble Pencils!

I'm in love with these pencils, good thing I have 2 more packs :)  Michaels had the most amazing Scrabble section over the summer.  I picked up Scrabble mugs, pencils, cupcake liners, pencil cases, notebooks...oh gosh, I was sucked in.  Oh... and band-aids!  Two packs of those were also purchased.  Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, no one injured themselves on Saturday so I didn't get to use the band-aids.

My friends and I love to have low-key, easy nights laughing, eating, drinking... and competing!

And so it begins...

I'm sitting here, Blab on my phone, listening to Sheila from Sheila Jane Teaching and The Teach Happy Membership (#THMPride...yay!) and Amy from TpT.  Holy moly, inspiring.  I kept thinking my first blog post had to be pure genius.  Jotting notes and waiting for the perfect topic to be my diving board into the blogging world.  Wrong.  I just want to write about anything and everything! Big, little, important, silly... I want to share all my thoughts!

This is what I want my blogging to be about.  My thoughts about teaching, coaching, baking, shopping, and on and on.  I'm listening to Sheila and Amy discussing making mistakes and taking chances and that's what this is for me.  Hoping that I can go outside of my comfort zone and start to build relationships with other bloggers, teachers, bakers and sports fans and learn from them and let them learn from me.

A huge thank you to Becca at Jumping Jax Designs to designing and setting up this fun new blog!

So to the beginning of my new blogging journey... Cheers!