thanksgiving & jenna...

hooray! i've been anxiously awaiting for this week to arrive: jenna's visiting and my favorite holiday :) and as usual, i went a little overboard...

the feast:

- roast turkey with pinot grigio gravy -

- mashed potatoes with garlic & chives -

- apple, celery, sourdough stuffing -

- butternut squash with browned butter & sage -

- green beans with garlic -

- cranberry orange relish -

- glazed carrots with mustard & brown sugar -

- pumpkin cheesecake -

more people should make room for dessert. jenna and i were the only ones able to stuff ourselves and now with colin out of town for the week, i'm left to eat the rest by myself. i've been trying to convince myself to freeze it or throw it out. neither of which have happened. pretty sure i'm going to have another piece after i post this *sigh* it's just so delicious and my will power is pretty weak...

good thing we snowboarded for 4 hours in the morning to work up an appetite... and 5 hours the day before to preemptively burn enough calories to justify all of it.

this reminds me of an old high school diving/ gymnastics photo

the lake in the background is where we take the dogs swimming sometimes

me, colin, jenna, and colin's friend frank (they play lacrosse together for the tahoe dawgs)

yoga boarding :) my new favorite photo.

yet another view that doesn't suck

hope everyone had a nice thanksgiving! miss you all!!!

casa de robinson...

 no more 70s jail bars!!! special thank you to colins dad :)

 with the chilly days and even colder nights, we are loving the wood burning fireplace! colin has become quite the fire master.

the closed door on the right (above) goes upstairs to the 2 bedrooms and 3rd bathroom.

 laundry room/ bathroom (above) our bedroom (below)

 the awful, awful drab blue bathroom. i like the color for a laundry room, but hated it in my bathroom. this does nothing good for your complexion. it had to go. i was craving something brighter, and more "me"

 i've been obsessing over orange for a few years now. i finally found the courage to paint an entire room bright, in your face, pumpkin orange. (appropriately completed right before halloween). it really wakes you up in the morning, just like the sun. i'll probably get sick of it in a year or two, but for right now- i love it.

a few of my favorite accents... owl sculpture (also a fairly new obsession of mine), diver fabric for my window treatment, and for course a touch of jenny sweeney's artwork: "you are beautiful" sign. i think every woman deserves this little reminder in morning :)