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

UNH Homecoming Recap 2012

Once again Homecoming did not disappoint.

The weather the beautiful, the temperature was perfect and the beers were flowing. 

I would go as far as to say it was my most favorite homecoming to date.

Since I am a cliche sorority girl through-and-though, I decided with my bestie, Korrin, to design alumni shirts. I figured a few people might want them but never imagined 28 alumni would contact me about ordering one.  I was a little overwhelmed and a bit stressed but everything worked out and people LOVED their shirts. 

I totally should have overcharged and made a profit. Next time, friends, next time. 

They ended but being extremely useful because it made it easy to spot your friends in the see of navy blue and white at the tailgate. 

A few of us decided to stay the night at our sorority, Chi Omega, and it was awesome. We slept in the TV room on the brand new comfy couches that college-emily is very jealous she didn't have. Waking up there and sitting in the kitchen for hours after, chatting about the day before with all the girls, really made me feel like I was back in college. 

I couldn't have asked for a better weekend and I never wanted it to end. 

Let the countdown for next year commence!

Some of us girls outside the Banana

Part of Fall 07 <3

The Back of the shirts. Never enough owls

Me and Casey

Me and the little. Matching koozies, duh.

"We are the three best friends.."

Standard shotgun

Nothing better than a little after-shotgun reaction shot

He was trying to get us to leave when the tailgate was over.  We were trying to get him to chug a beer

Apparently the truck ride back to campus was fun

An unwanted and too soon goodbye

Requesting tunes. Most likely Tay

The Tailgate

Oh and in case you didn't know, today is a holiday in my world as today is the day Taylor Swift's Red album is released. 

XOXO

-Emmy

UNH Homecoming 2012

College was the best four years of my life. 

I feel sad for people who were 'ready' to graduate and move on because in my mind, it means they didn't get to have the same amazing experience I did. 

I never wanted to leave. 

Spending all day everyday with your best friends...priceless. 

I would go back in a second.

Lucky for us, there is still one weekend a year when we all get to go back to school, hang out with our best friends and pretend, just for a minute, we are co-ed's once again. 

That's right my friends, it's homecoming time. 

I fly out today at 6AM and land in Boston at noon. 

I'll be there for a little more than 48 hours but you can best believe it will be the best 48 hours I've had in a long time.

I haven't slept all week because, as the little girl in the Disney commercial used to say, "I was too excited to sleep!"

I'll give a recap next week but for now, some of favorite moments from the past.

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

 

 

Easton Corbin, biffles and Loser's

This past weekend, my biffle Casey came. 

Even though we could easily do nothing, entertain each other for hours on end and be perfectly content, I decided she would probably rather get a feel for Nashville.

Lucky for her, it just so happen to be Easton Corbin's my future husband's album release party at Loser's bar.

We knew he was beautiful from his album cover but he was even better in person. 

Extremely personable and very interactive with the audience. 

Had we not been standing directly next to one of the cops, I may have tried to hop on stage.

I tried to upload a nice video of him rocking out but unfortunately blogger was being annoying.

 So go buy the album. 

Cuz it's great.

And so is he.

XOXO - Emmy

Patriot's Game Recap

Happy Monday everyone!

I'm actually writing this post on Sunday night (cuz I'm a planner like that) and typing with one hand because I burned my hand on a frying pan while making dinner. 

Ouch.

 So any grammatical errors I blame on the one handed typing..

Now on to today's post, the Patriot's recap.

Last Sunday, September 9th, was The Tennessee Titan's opening game and they just so happen to be playing the Patriots. We bought our tickets before moving down here and ironically, it was the first Patriot's game I have gone to. A few of my friends who live in Memphis are also originally from New England and came up for the weekend to see the Pats dominate.

We were a little worried that we would be the only fans decked out in Pats gear but surprisingly everyone we met before, during and after the game were from New England so there was no shortage in Brady jerseys. 

It was a beautiful, sunny, wonderful day and no surprise, we won.

Mireille and Ryan getting their drink on before the game. Central time means tailgating starts an hour early...

Morning mimosas to jump start the day

The only bud light cans in the store...trying to force team spirit. Pshhhh

Mireille and I squinting in the sun

Lizzy and I

They say don't take candy from strangers but what about jello shots?

LP Field

XOXO -Emmy