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Giveaway Winners & NYC Pictures

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Photo Provided by Girard’s

I want to thank all of you who participated in my latest giveaway of Girard’s Salad Dressings. I used a random number generator to determine the 5 winners:

Annalene (The Wide World of All Things Cute and Cuddly)

Cheryl F. (The Lucky Ladybug)

Nicole (Prevention RD)

Elizabeth W

Dana (Food for Thought)

To all the winners: Please email me your address so I can have your prize pack sent out!

Mike and I just got back from our trip to New York City! We had an amazing time and I wanted to share a few random pictures we took…

Tags: New York City
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Our 5th Wedding Anniversary & City Lights Bed & Breakfast, Ithaca, New York

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Mike and I recently had the pleasure of celebrating our 5^th wedding anniversary…I really can’t believe how fast time flies. These past 5 years have been the happiest, most fulfilling years of my life and I’m looking forward to a lifetime of anniversaries with my wonderful husband.

For our anniversary we wanted a little weekend getaway, not too close to home but not too far to drive. We decided a bed and breakfast in Ithaca, NY would be perfect. Ithaca is a quaint college town (home to Cornell University) located in New York’s Finger Lake region.

On the drive to Ithaca…

The Ithaca Commons…

Part of the Sagan Planet Walk, a walking scale model of the solar system…

City Lights Bed & Breakfast: Part of the common rooms of the house…

The lovely kitchen…

All dressed up for breakfast…

The North Suite where we stayed…

Private entrance to and patio for our suite…

The view of Ithaca from the bed and breakfast…

My favorite part about our stay was the lovely attention to detail all around the house. There were vases of fresh flowers all over, books to read, and little knick-knacks. The fee per night for the North Suite where we stayed is $165, which includes a delicious breakfast of fresh fruit, yogurt, assorted muffins, toast, eggs, juice, and coffee. Mike and I thoroughly enjoyed our stay and we want to thank our wonderful innkeepers for their hospitality.

Soon I’ll be posting a review of a restaurant where we had dinner during our stay in Ithaca…stay tuned!

City Lights Bed & Breakfast

1319 Mecklenburg Rd.

Ithaca, NY 14850

Phone: 607.227.3003

Tags: Bed & Breakfast, Ithaca, New York, Travel, Vacation
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I’m Back! & A Beautiful Award

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

We had a wonderful time with my family in Florida. Even though the weather was a little chilly (only averaging in the 50s) it was still much warmer than New York…and the best part is we didn’t see a flake of snow! Here are some of the highlights…

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I recently received the Beautiful Blogger award from Dorothy at Kitchen Koala. If you haven’t done so yet, be sure to check out her blog. Dorothy is a fantastic cook (and baker!) and she’s got a great sense of humor and outlook on life. Thank you so much for passing this award on to me, Dorothy!

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Instructions for the award:

1. Thank the person who gave you the award.
2. Paste the award on your blog.
3. Link the person who nominated you for the award.
4. Tell 7 interesting things about yourself.
5. Nominate 7 bloggers or less.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominated.

I’m running out of things about myself to tell you guys (lol!), but here are 7 (hopefully) interesting things:

1. On vacation I just bought 6 new cookbooks (I know, obsessed much? ;) )…each cookbook is dedicated to a different cuisine from around the world.

2. My favorite painting is Van Gogh’s Starry Night.

3. I love the rain, but only in warm weather.

4. When I was a kid my favorite meal was spaghetti and meatballs.

5. My eyes are a light green/blue color. (Closest to “seafoam” if you have a Crayola box of crayons.)

6. My hair is poker-straight, but I’ve always wanted curly. (The grass is always greener on the other side, right?)

7. My ideal evening involves chocolate, a crackling fire, a good movie, and my hubby. :)

I would like to pass this award on to the following fabulous bloggers (ok, so I did 8 :) ):

1. Lorraine of Not Quite Nigella

2. Marla of Family Fresh Cooking

3. Chaya of Sweet and Savory

4. Erica of My Columbian Recipes

5. Nicole of Prevention RD

6. Holly of The Healthy Everythingtarian

7. Karine of Food Gourmand

8. Karyn of French Charming

My next post will be an exciting one…I’ll be reviewing one of the wonderful restaurants we enjoyed on vacation and I’ll be hosting a giveaway. Stay tuned! :)

Tags: Awards, Florida, Pictures, Travel, Vacation
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Camping!

Monday, June 29th, 2009

This past weekend I went camping at Allegany State Park, which the largest state park in New York. It was beautiful and we had a lot of fun (even though it rained on and off all day Sunday!). Here are some of the highlights…

The Scenic Car Ride

On the way we passed through the cutest little town called Ellicottville, right in the middle of ski country.

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A Gothic-Looking Church In Ellicottville

Our Cabin Looked Like Something Straight Out of the Movie "The Ring"

Our Running Water...Yeah, We Were Really Roughing It

The landscape was really breathtaking…

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Some wildlife…

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A Spider, Up Close & Personal

Mike Spotted This Beauty As We Were Leaving the Park

Beaver Dam

The So-Called "Abandoned" Bear Caves

More of the Bear Caves

Some of the local flora…

Happy Daisies

Some Kind of Probably-Poisonous Little Mushrooms

More Fungus

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A Faerie Hole

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The beach…

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My Niece, Autumn Rose

Some of our eats (we also made s’mores — of course, what is camping without them? — and mountain pies filled with fruit pie filling and sprinkled with powdered sugar)…

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Right before we left a thick fog rolled in…then on the way home we drove through torrential downpours and a thunder storm (I wish I had gotten a picture of the lightening, it was really close!).