Last week nothing particularly exciting happened Monday-Thursday, so I thought I would just do a little recap of our weekend since it was such a good one! Every weekend is good, but this one felt exceptionally long and fun-filled! I hope you all are feeling just as rested and relaxed this Monday morning! 😌

Friday

Normally on Fridays I love nothing more that staying in, cook a yummy meal together and share a bottle of wine. But this Friday it was such beautiful weather all day, 70’s and not a cloud in the sky, so we knew that we should soak up every ounce of good weather while we still have the chance! Thankfully we live in the best part of Portland in my opinion, so we just wandered out our door a couple of blocks and sat outside of Jo Bar and Rotisserie on 23rd ave. We drank their new seasonal cocktails, a fig old fashioned for him, a reposado cocktail for me, snacked on the best oysters with a tequila mignonette, drank several glasses of bubbles, talked and laughed and people watched. A quick happy hour turned into an unexpected date night, which is the best kind!

Saturday

Saturday we showed our support at the PurpleStride walk on the waterfront in Portland. Several of our friends parents have passed away from pancreatic cancer, so it felt good to be there to support them and help fund such an important cause.

Afterwards Thomas planned a surprise for one of our good friends’ birthdays – To take us all up in a plane! It was our friend Linzy’s birthday, and Thomas and Linzy’s husband had it planned for weeks and us girls had no idea! Unfortunately the weather ended up being too bad to go up once we were already at the airport, but she was still really surprised and we made a plan to make a day out of it the next nice day that we have in Portland! It will be my first time as well going up with Thomas in a plane, so i’m excited! We still had to kill time though since we were planning a surprise party for Linzy at her house, so we ended up going to Edgefield for a couple of beers before saying our “goodbyes” and then racing ahead of them so we could get to their house to be in on the surprise!

Sunday

Sundays is definitely my favorite to sleep in and move extra slowly in the morning. We fell asleep at like 10:00 Saturday night since we had such a long day, so after sleeping over 10 hours we woke up feeling rested and refreshed!

If anything is on your agenda for this week it’s to make this toast that I made Sunday! Sourdough topped high with an herby dill and parsley yogurt, sun-dried tomato pesto, wilted spinach, fried eggs, crumbled goat cheese, and finished with more herbs and Everything but the bagel seasoning! SO good. Around noon we headed out to Cornell Farms which is a beautiful nursery and garden center right on the outskirts of NW Portland. We made a cute little herb garden and then sat on the porch at their cafe and had coffee, quiche and a blueberry granola.

Afterwards we decided to check out Uwajimaya, a huge Asian food market in Beaverton. I have been wanting to go for a while now and it did not disappoint! They have everything you could ever want and we definitely took advantage! We spent part of our future child’s college fund but no big deal, it was worth it 😉 I made traditional miso ramen from scratch for the first time and I will never do it another way again! Posting the recipe soon!