The Wright Life!

We had a very quiet Christmas this year.  At first I was a bit sad that we wouldn't be with tons of friends and/or family but it was actually pretty nice.  I managed to not put on real clothes or make up for 4 straight which was glorious.  Christmas Eve afternoon we decorated sugar cookies with Kristen and Kerry, then ordered in pizza, drank lots of wine, and played cards against humanity. Christmas morning we were up at the crack of dawn.  Lily went straight to her new kidcraft kitchen!  Then we all opened stockings and took a break from opening gifts to start our breakfast tradition of monkey bread, mimosas,  and bacon.  Super healthy.  The rest of the day we played, opened more gifts, went for a nice walk, and watched Christmas movies.  That night after Lily went to bed Rollie and I made a really nice dinner (tri tip, hasselback potatoes and brussel sprouts with bacon) and opened a good bottle of wine, 2008 parador.  Lily got her kitc...

25. Make Christmas cookies. made campfire cookies for cookie exchange at work 24. Buy a real Christmas tree & stash vases of fresh trimmings all around the house. Done 12/1 23. Send Christmas cards & find a way to display all the ones we receive *I've been wanting to find a new way to display for a couple years now. 22. Buy a new red nailpolish. 21. Hang a string of colored lights somewhere unexpected in the house. Around your chalkboard, in the bathroom or even in your closet.  Lilys teepee 20. Watch Elf 19. Donate toys to a local charity. 18. Make holiday garland.   Thanks Dawn & Micaela!  17. Take silly pictures in our reindeer antlers 16. Make fireplace/stove s'mores & listen to Christmas music. made campfire cookies...sort of the same thing 15. Buy a new ornament for 2013. 14. Play the Christmas Vacation movie drinking game . played on Monday with our friends Tom/JC and Josh/Amber 13. DIY Christmas gifts for family. 12. Have a date n...

I had an intuition that the color of the year for 2014 was going to be Radiant Orchid!  Not really, its just a total fluke that our Christmas Card outfits were in that shade.  I'm really looking forward to a little R&R over the next four days.  We actually have NO plans Sunday through Christmas Day, at first I was bummed out because that's just not like us but I think we are both pretty content lounging around making cookies, watching Christmas movies and playing with Lily. Merry Christmas! 2013

Today we headed down to San Francisco to meet up with Cathy & Sal for lunch.  They let us pick so we decided on Coqueta, Michael Chiarello's restaurant at Pier 5 along the Embarcadero.  The food and views were outstanding but I was a bit disappointed in the service.  We had confirmed over the phone that we were going to be 4 adults and a highchair but when we arrived that informed us that they only had 1 highchair and it was already in use.  Well, needless to say this made for a difficult and exhausting dining experience.  They gave us the highchair after we were done with lunch, and at that point Lily did not want to be strapped down after being free for over an hour.  Anyways, the food and drinks were great. Its tapas style so we all shared a charcuterie and cheese plate, beet salad, crispy duck meatballs and paella.  After lunch Rollie, Lily and I walked around the Ferry Building before deciding to make the trek over to Union Square to window sh...

Yesterday we ventured out in the cold weather to Six Flags with our friends Kristen & Kerry.  They had free passes and they have special attractions going on for the Holidays right now.  We had so much fun!  Lily rode a train, the carousel, saw sharks, stingrays, seals, and walruses. All of us adults actually rode some roller coasters too and enjoyed our 'adult' hot chocolates.  Such a great way to get into the Holiday spirit.  They even had a snow hill that Lily and I sled down (poor Rollie tried to video it but it didn't work).  Lily's favorite part was the little Holiday show...teenagers dancing and singing to Christmas songs!