High Five for Friday

Woohoo Friday!  I'm so glad we made it through another week...the first week of October no less.  Time is flying by! It's been a minute since I've done a High 5 for Friday Day post (probably because it's been that long since I've had anything interesting to talk about !), so I figured there's no time like the present to talk about a few things.

1. Twinning

This happened on Monday:

During a shopping trip while my parents were here a couple of weeks ago, Mom and I picked up nearly identical bright green sweaters as we were perusing the Talbots Outlet.  We were on different sides of the store, and when we met back up we realized what we had done.  Mom asked me what I would wear with it and I told her I would surely pair it with navy, she agreed.  We laughed about it and continued on shopping.  Fast forward and entire week.  We're having one of our afternoon phone calls while I am driving home and Mom casually mentions that she got lots of compliments on her bright green sweater that day.  Jokingly I tell her that I hope she wore it with navy.  Turns out she wore it with a knee length navy dress.  Guess what your's truly had on that very day....my bright green sweater over a navy dress.  We got a kick out if it.  I've always known I would eventually turn into my mother, but I guess I never thought the change would be so literal...lol.  Great minds do think alike!

2.Raspberries 

I received a large box in the mail this week from my grandparents.  I was curious considering I was not expecting anything, so I was pleasantly surprised when I opened the box to find a big bunch of raspberry plants!  I brought several home with us from out trip to Indiana this summer, but only one of them made it...I might have waited a little too long to get them in some dirt.  I am hoping our newest raspberry additions will thrive so we can have LOTS of raspberries next year!

3. Brazilian Food

The father of one of our friends who is from Brazil has been here visiting for the past couple of months.  He speaks very little English and we speak no Portuguese so it has made for some awkward but endearing conversations while he has been here.  Sadly he had to head back to the Southern Hemisphere this week, but we sent him off with a big cookout Tuesday night.  I have discovered over the past couple of months that I LOVE Brazilian food.  It is super light and flavorful, kinda tex-mexy but so much better.  I am sure I have mentioned the Brazilian Potato Salad once or twice around these parts,  It looks like a Shepard's pie, has the flavor of the bacon ranch boxed pasta salad you can get a the grocery store, but is filled with delicious things like carrots, olives, and even chicken!  This stuff is amazing.  At the cookout this week we had this delicious dish, as well as several grilled meats and of course fresh pico de gallo with rice and guacamole.  It was sooooo good!  As much as I hate to see our friend's dad go back home, I am so glad we got to send him off with a bang!

4. Dance Starts Up Next Week!

I am getting really excited because the 2014-2015 dance year kicks off next week!  I feel like it's the first week of school or something (which is guess it is the first week of dance school).  I cannot wait to get in the studio and work with all of the little darlings this year. I am going to get to work with 3rd graders-7th graders this year which will be lots of fun!  I will be tap-tapping to my little heart's content and I can't wait!

5.  No-football Friday/Homecoming?

We get to switch things up this weekend for football.  THS has a bye week [WHAT?!] which means we are footloose and fancy free this evening!  We considered going out to eat and then we both laughed and remembered that we are anti-Friday night date nighters.  We have never had luck trying to go out to eat on a Friday night.  It never fails.  We gave it up when we were in college.  Having football and basketball games on those nights normally keeps us from going most of the time, but when we have a free night we tend to momentarily forget about it.  My vote is for some Little Caesars and catching up on this week's NCIS episodes that we have yet to watch.  Whatever we do it won't be too much because we are going to be up bright and early to head to Montgomery for Homecoming at Huntingdon!  It's going to be a full day of fun and friends, most of whom we haven't seen in a year and I cannot wait!  It is supposed to be in the upper 60s and sunny all day which is going to make for an absolutely beautiful day!

The picture on the left was taken during Eric's last football season (fall 07) and the picture on the right is last year at Homecoming. 

Happy Friday!