Thanks.

Thanksgiving might just be my favorite holiday. Cooking, eating, drinking friends, family... Does it get much better than that? There's no pressure of gift buying, crazy holiday shopping, it's all just about coming together with the people that are most important to you and being grateful for what fortunate lives we all live.
This will be our second year hosting and we can't wait. I love the feeling of having our home filled with our greatest friends, everyone so happy to be together, all the yummy smells from the kitchen. I know, I know, I'm totally cheesing out right now, but it really is such a wonderful time. There will be 12 of us this year which is perfect considering that's about all our table can hold. Everyone is bringing a tasty dish or 2 and a bottle of wine for the table. Robb & I will be heading up the turkey & mashies (Robb's a master mashie maker) again this year, sure to be yummier than ever!
So wherever you are and whomever you're with, Happy Thanksgiving from Mia, Robb & Mona!

Get in here...

Robb says this to me all the time. Whether he's referring to getting into his sweatshirt for a hug, under a blanket for a movie or into bed for a snuggle. I saw this and thought of him...
via Oh Joy

Wedding Pix

We were finally able to finish looking thru our wedding pix the other night. They are so amazing and we couldn't be happier with HVK as our photographer. She & her assistant Heather were so great with all of us and captured some wonderful shots.

Just a few of our faves:

Nemo First Friday

My talented husband will be exhibiting new work this Friday November 7th at the Nemo 1st Friday group photo show. The show is titled "Thanksgiving" and is a silent auction to raise money for the Oregon Food Bank. The artist's only direction was to shoot something they are grateful for.
Should be a really interesting show, I love seeing how other people interpret what something means to them.
I'm also really excited because this is the first time since we moved to Portland that Robb is showing new work. I'm so proud of him and I'm totally in love with the piece he submitted.
Come and check it out for yourselves! Nov. 7th, 6pm-10pm @ Nemo 1875 SE Belmont St. PDX

Just 10 More Reasons Why...

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Hey Ladies

Just gotta share, this made my day...
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APTS

With trying to figure out what to do about our living situation, we've been entertain lots of different ideas. We're just not sure if buying right now is the best idea, especially with the economy the way it is and who knows when or if its going to get better...
Anyway, we have to take into consideration living in an apartment again. This apartment that I found on sfbaygirl's blog makes it not seem so bad:

My Ladies

One of the most amazing parts of this whole wedding week experience was having all of my best girl friends out in PDX all at once. They planned a fabulous night out the Wednesday before the wedding and it was all a surprise to me. We started off at Loyly Spa in Southeast. I have been DYING to go there for the past year and we had the whole place reserved for just us! It was amazing, champagne, chocolates, steam, sauna, masks, scrubs, honestly so amazing. After all this we got all dolled up and went out to Masu for sushi, another favorite of mine! Tons of ridiculously good food and of course, great company! From there it was time for martinis (boy do these girls know what i like!) and meeting up with some more of my local girls, lots of celebrating and fun times.
We ended up taking a Pedi-Cab which is another one that has been on the "to-do" list. It was seriously one of the most fun nights I've had in a long time. I can't even explain how wonderful it felt to be with all the girls that I love most in the world. Thank you so much to all of you and I can't wait for us to all be together again!! I love you all so much.

Ice Cream, Yous Cream

We got an ice cream maker in the mail last week for a shower gift!!! SO excited to make some soon. We got all the fixins to make coffee ice cream to bring over to S&O's but we didn't realize it would take 6-22 hours to freeze the bucket. Lame. Anyway, we'll be ice cream makin' in no time! Thanks J&C!

Fife

R & I went out to dinner at Fife on Friday night.
When we first moved here it was on our list of places to eat and for some reason we haven't made it there yet. S&O have gone the last 2 years for their anniversary and LOVED it. Can't believe we waited this long.
We ordered an amazing bottle of Rosè to start, which was a great way to end the summer.
We shared a delicious order of Fried Green Tomatoes & a creamy Butter Lettuce Salad.
Then an order of medium rare Albacore over a bed of shredded cucumber, basil and red pepper.
The highlight of the night was our dessert which neither Robb or I would have normally chosen, but the waitress said was fab, so we went for it.
Some sort of peach cake with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce drizzled over top.

If you haven't been to Fife yet, definitely go soon. It's such great food.