Fall Fun Day

One of my biggest fears when moving to Nashville was that I would miss out on the typical New England fall. 

Foliage, pumpkins, apples and crisp air are some of my most favorite things. 

As October began, Lizzy and I found ourselves constantly saying how it just didn't look like 'fall' but friends and co-workers kept assuring us Fall was coming.

Well my friends, the people were right. 

The colors of the foliage are incredible and the weather recently has been amazing. We decided to take this chance to do a 'fall activities" weekend.

We kicked it off by scouting a few grocery stores before finding authentic Apple Cider. 

Which needs to be purchased chilled. 

Not room temp in the "juice", Mr. Publix man. 

Just so you know.

Saturday we planned to go to an all-inclusive fall activities farm, Honeysuckle Hill Farm.

Doesn't it just sound perfect?

It was better than we anticipated however we kind of felt that we should of had a child or two with us..

There was SO much to do. 

Duck races

Tractor pulls

Amazing playgrounds

A huge box filled with 1000's of pounds of corn kernels

Pumpkin patch

Petting Zoo

Zip line

Hay Ride

Pumpkin launcher 

and much more..

Honeysuckle Hill Farm

All the fun attractions!

A 3 horned goat. I cannot understand why they didn't make a bigger deal out of this. There is no way this is common.

The six of us searched and searched until we found the best 6 mini pumpkins, our souvenirs from the hayride.

Lizzy and I lost in the cornfield

It was great to get out of city and have a day full of autumn activities!

XOXO

-Emmy

AT&T Uverse sucks but Zac Brown Band rocks

So AT&T Uverse sucks. 

That's putting it lightly. 

We didn't have cable or internet for 9 days. NINE. 

I called India every single night to complain and get an update on the progress. 

Every night they let us know there was "an outage in our area" um, okay. 

Iono about you but I have had cable in my life for 24 years and I have never experienced something like this. 

Maybe the cable would go out if there was a snow storm that was bad enough. 

But we are in Tennessee, no snow.

Anyway, I hope to get back in to this little ole' blog and keep logging our memories.

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A few weekends ago (September 22) we attended the Southern Ground Musical Festival here in Nashville. 

It's a two day, two night concert headlined by Zac Brown Band with an endless amount of other talent. 

We decided to just go on Saturday to save our livers so we wouldn't be too tired.

The line up consisted of:

 - The Lumineers

- Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

- Los Loney Boys

- David Gray

...Just to name a few

Oh and a special appearance by John Mayer. 

Yup best concert ever.

It was a beautiful day and we had so much fun, met really random friends and drank a few too many tall boys. 

Oh another great part, if you downloaded the Southern Ground Musical Festival app, you got a free tall boy koozie. 

If you know even a little about me you know I ALWAYS have a koozie on me so this upped the awesomeness about 100 points. 

So anyway...the day, in pictures:

The Koozies!

The Stage

The Lumineers. AMAZING = understatement

The Lumineers, again.

...and one more time

The cutest old man had the hardest time taking this picture

Friends.

Zac and John. Awesome.

Hopefully our internet doesn't fail again so we can keep at this!

XOXO 

-Emmy

Nashville Zoo Sunset Safari - Stones River Baking

Some exciting things have been happing around here. You may have seen on my Facebook already, but my amazing sister has launched her gluten-free cookie company! I can’t explain how proud I am of her. She is an amazing chef and baker and when she was diagnosed with Celiac two years ago, her kitchen changed quite a bit. The rest of her family was very sympathetic but was not interested in making the whole household gluten-free, for a good reason. Most gluten-free food pretty much sucks. So that’s when she took the challenge of creating her own cookie recipe that the whole family could enjoy. And let me tell you, these cookies rock. After a year of mixing and baking, she finally found the perfect mix.

 

YUM!

 



The finished product, Stones River Baking Cookies coming to a shelf near you!



On Thursday, September 6^th, 2011 we were vendors at the Nashville Zoo Sunset Safari. The night of exploring involved food and drinks from all of Nashville’s top restaurants, bars and bakeries, live music and dance from many cultures and chances to interact with some of the zoo’s friendliest creatures. All proceeds benefit Nashville Zoo’s education and conservation programs.

We were across from the flamingos, my favorite animals of all time.

It was an incredible night to be a part of and we couldn’t have asked for a better chance to launch our name into the world. We featured our Cranberry-Raisin Oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies. We received incredible feedback and support from the gluten-free community as well as those who aren’t affected by celiac or a wheat allergy but just happen to enjoy great cookies!

 

Our table at the event.

All sites are now live so make sure you like Stones River Baking on Facebook, follow @stonesriverbake on Twitter and visit the website: www.stonesriverbaking.com for updates on stores we’re coming to and new flavors! You can help out by contacting your local grocery store and requesting Stones River Baking cookies!  

You can submit requests for orders on our website under the Contact Us page.

Enjoy!!

XO Lizzy

 

 

Goodbye New England, Hello Nashville!

Welcome to our new blog! 

A little place for all our friends, family and probably creepers to follow our shenanigans in Nashville!

Never want to miss a post? Well then click that little "join this site" button to your right - - ->

Did you do it? Phew. 

Stay tuned for more fun as we get the hang of this and get to know Nashville.

And now to end with one of Emmy's favorite quotes:

"Every story has an ending...but in life, every ending is just a new beginning" - Uptown Girls

(yes, I just quoted Uptown Girls)

-E&L