Thanksgiving 2015

Happy day after Thanksgiving!!

We went to Erik's mom's place for Thanksgiving, aka "Nana's" house.  Erik and I even got to sneak away and go to see the movie Creed. (We love Rocky!)

I'm now ready for all things Christmas!!! Warm cider/tea, Christmas trees, Christmas lights, Christmas movies, etc etc etc. I'm planning to make an toddler friendly advent "calendar" since Emersyn is old enough to understand and appreciate things a little bit more this year.  

Here's to the start of "the most wonderful tiiiiiiime of the yeeeeeear" :p 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ... everywhere you go.

This holiday season has really snuck up on me with a newborn and a toddler. The whole "days are long but the years are short" saying is proving to be so true!! Seems like just a few months ago Erik was staying up late on Christmas Eve putting Emersyn's kitchen set together and yet here we are at Thanksgiving with another kid!

We've been living in KC the past month or so while my awesome husband works on the latest project, Komatsu.  Amazing ramen coming at you soon!!!

Annnnyways, I plan to take full advantage of being in KC for the holidays and that will include many visits to Union Station to let 2 year old run around and get out energy while we bask in the Christmas delight, ha. Or something like that. Because dark at 5pm, people. Hashtag stir crazy.

Yesterday it was 60 degrees outside so I couldn't resist going outside to take full advantage of nice weather before it's too cold. We walked to the park and of course Emersyn was thrilled, as always, with "running" and playing outside!

Thanksgiving and Christmas ... here we come!

Back in Action

And we're baaaaack!

At least in some form.  Two kids, two restaurants and much more later, I've decided to come back to the blog world at least a little bit. Now that I'm getting settled in to life with two kids I miss the creative outlet it allows. 

I've tried my hand at having a kid related blog and a food blog and that obviously didn't work either. So here we are back at The Purple Carrot, where everything I feel like posting will be found. Kids, food, family, life, whatever ... Looking back, one of my favorite things about blogging is to be able to look to past years and remember what was going on and having a record of fun memories and different seasons of life.

So here's to another era of The Purple Carrot, whatever it may look like!