So Many Places To Go...So Little Time

Take a look at the websites I've added to the right.  Many of them are Tim and my favorite places restaurants or just places we like.  A lot of them are places we haven't visited yet but that I've found in my MSP Magazine (thanks Erica) and have loved their website.  The bakery's look AMAZING.  This leads me to my next topic...I'm on a diet. Haha...time to bite the bullet and just get rid of those extra pounds that have seemed to found their way to my midsection throughout the last few years.  It's hard...BUT...feeling great and healthy is priceless.

The days are getting shorter and the dark nights longer...that means the cold weather is just ahead of us.  We've had an amazing fall and can't complain.  But coming off of two record snow falls (one in Des Moines and then Minneapolis the following winter) we deserve all the nice weather God will give us!  It's funny...you can tell the temperature change by the animal movement (or lack of) in the household.   Here's a picture I just had to take this morning.

The cats know where the warmth is...in all the red fur!! "Albert, is that even comfortable??" Raleigh LOVES this weather...he's very comfortable all through winter often just sitting  in the snow watching traffic. It's kind of a pain because he's cool enough to lay on the bed all night long...and he's sure a bed hog.  Notice you don't see Os in these...that's because he goes straight from the bed to under the blanket on the couch and doesn't move unless we make him!  He definitely does NOT like winter...BUT, can you blame him?

Tim and I have started taking turns surprising the other one with a date night location.  We kind of started last week when we went out with 2 couples last weekend to Travail.  It was good food but they didn't take reservations and we didn't end up leaving until Midnight.  Too late for this girl who attended 5:45am spin class that morning...annnnddd possibly too much time to drink wine before hand. Needless to say next time I think we'll vote for a place that takes reservations.  Does that make us old?  We could have done it on a Saturday night...no problem. :o)