Christmas Morning

Jake and I got up bright and early Christmas morning to drive up to Pip’s house. She was still asleep when we got there, so I set up her pile of presents. Jake and I noticed that Pippy had a weird tube coming out of her Gtube sight, and when I asked the nurse about [...]

Holiday stories from my childhood: The time bed wetting happened.

My two oldest siblings were away at college for a lot of my childhood. Since there were 6 kids my parents couldn’t really afford for them to come home on random weekends or more minor holidays, but they always came home for Christmas. We all would go ape over seeing them. We would fight over [...]

Holiday stories from my childhood: My first adult beverage.

It’s hard to imagine that cute face sneaking a stiff drink. There was this family in our neighborhood growing up that threw a huge bash every year for Christmas. We would all dress fancy…I would always wear patent black Mary Janes and some sort of huge bow with my hair pulled half up…and prepare for [...]

Holiday stories from my childhood: The time a tantrum worked for me.

My parents were pretty strict with us. I’ve told you about the mere look my mom used to give me and my sibs when we were kids. We would be misbehaving like a pack of hoodlums at church, but one look from her would have our behavior suited for afternoon tea with the Queen.  They [...]

Our 3rd day in Paris

Some of this post is going to be scary! You’ve been warned, friends. Day three in Paris was a Sunday, and true to what I heard, everything is closed in Paris on Sundays. We went to TWO bakeries I was dying to try, and both were closed. I was so bummed! And Jake was literally [...]

Off to Utah

I’m flying out today to be with my family. My Grandma’s funeral is tomorrow morning and I’m looking forward to hearing everyone’s wonderful and hilarious memories of her. Such as, she once told my cousin that she doesn’t use her turning signals because (in her words) “It’s no one’s business where I’m going”. Hahaha I’ve [...]

Top o’ the mornin’ to ya!

Happy st. patricks day! Eat some potatoes or something green. And don’t pinch anybody because that is super rude I think.

What we did over the weekend.

Saw that Pip. (Sweet) Volunteered at the midnight run handing out champagne at the 2 mile marker. (SO FUN) Kissed at midnight. (PDA) Got hoarse from yelling “Happy New Year!”, “Cheers” and “drinks on me” to the runners. (Festive) Found the battery dead in our car Saturday morning. (Jake’s fault) Blew a fuse in the [...]

2011

Happy New Year from the Breinholts!

Our year

A kiss, in case it doesn’t happen at midnight. (because we’ll be volunteering at a midnight new year’s run in central park. I doubt they’ll be cool with a full on make out sesh when there’s water to be handed out.) It was a wild year that two thousand ten. It started out rough with [...]