FALL!

So ready for fall! Chilly nights, bearable days, leaves changing! Apple cider! Sweaters, sweatshirts, and socks! Pumpkin cheesecake! Rachel Ray has a new iphone app "putting out an APB on fall" Everything cooked with apples, pumpkin, or beer! Excited!

I'm kind of loving these shoes from Manimals (http://save-the-manimals.com/)

Dim Sum - Yum Yum!

I've never had dim sum before. I loved it!! Little parcels of amazing! There's a new place in DC, near Chinatown called Ping Pong. It's on 7th street. The drinks are fantastic, and food is delicious and super cute!






And cheap! They have a great happy hour and the inside of the place is really, really cool.

Next time you are in DC, you must check it out!

xoxo

I love you, Target.

Our Target just became a "Super" Target. I love it.

These little cookies are SO GOOD. I recommend you go out and buy a few boxes.

JAM!

I'll say it again - I love jam! Growing up, my mother always made strawberry jam - which spoiled me, because that was all I liked. The stuff in the jar from the grocery never interested me. Then I made this...It was ok. It didn't look like this - The middle layer has raspberry jam in it - which didn't really set up right. Either way - I had some leftover jam - and we ate it for breakfast the next day and I looooooooooved it! Who knew? Thanks Smuckers. My mom made some peach jam too that was sugary and amazing.

I also had some raspberry jam in Colorado that Megan made - and I also LOOOOOOOOVED it. So today I took a crack at it and let me tell you, it was a SUCCESS!! See the progress below...

I didn't even make that big of a mess!! It was quite a process - I of course didn't buy enough berries so I ran to the grocery AGAIN to buy more. Then when I got to the sugar - I ran out. My sweet neighbor, I'll call her Mrs. X, let me borrow some to finish the jam - it's a very precise recipe. But it worked out for the best!

...except now I have to stare at it for 24 HOURS until it sets!!