Happy Friday!!

I am so very excited to reach the end of this week!

Linking up with these ladies again to celebrate Friday!

-ONE-

Thanksgiving is creeping it's way around the corner!

My roommate and L said I couldn't decorate for Christmas until AFTER Thanksgiving, so I settled on this "Give Thanks" Bunting Banner that I downloaded from here.

LOVE IT!

 -TWO-

The other night we decided to have a try to "make your own pizza" night!

My roommate picked up some supplies from Whole Foods, and we found ourselves elbow deep in pizza dough, hashing out a plan for some scrumptious pizza's!

Steph should clearly work down the street at Regina's (The best pizza in ALL of Boston). EXPERT!

My dough and cheese pizza was SO OH OH GOOD!

-THREE-

I don't like it when stuff is randomly out and not put away. Everything has a container, and every container has a label. I'm that person.

SO, you can only imagine my excitement when I found one of favorite food storage container brand (Sistema) had a baking line to store your baking supplies! Woohoo!

I picked up two large and two small, and started filling them, and I am LOVING how they look!

(Please ignore the crappy iPhone photo resolution)

-FOUR-

The semester is FINALLY coming to an end. Thank goodness!

All my labs are officially done, except for the final lab reports and practicals... and lecture is boring me. I have two finals (Organic Chemistry and Organismal Biology) left, one of which will be wicked easy, and the other which will shred me into pieces, causing my brain to fall out. Take a guess as to which is which! Next semester I am registered to take a cell class, as well as Organic Chemistry II. After Orgo II next semester, I will officially be done with all the chemistry I need to graduate! What a fantastic feeling that will be! I hate chemistry so much.

-FIVE-

My little sister is flying into Logan tonight! Heck Yea! I haven't seen her since July!

I have all kinds of BOSTON fun planned for her!

Including...

Those should all be on your "Boston Bucket List" if you ever come to visit!! This place is packed full of everything! 

Have a splendid weekend!

Everybody Loves Fall

It is taking every ounce of energy to focus all my blogging energy towards fall and Thanksgiving, opposed to the "most wonderful time of the year"!!

I'm here to recap you on some glorious Halloween FALL TIME FUN!

I'll start you with a pumpkin story.

I bought these two (rather large) pumpkins at Haymarket (a farmers market down the street), around the beginning of October. I was walking on my way home from Faneuil Hall, and thought "hey, we need some fall fun for the apartment, $3 for a pumpkin is a good deal"! So when I went to pay for it, he told me he would give me 2 for $5, an even better deal! Getting back to the North End with these two suckers was a pain in the ass workout that I NEVER ever want to relive. Eventually, after much sweat and two nice guys that helped me when I got to my street, I put them out on the fire escape and they rotted the next day. EXCELLENT! We left them out there for a couple more weeks because they stunk, were really squishy.. and we really, REALLY did not want to touch them. Eventually, L came and saved the day and helped bag them up for us. 

After that rotten experience, I went to Kennebunk and made my brother spend some quality pumpkin carving time with me!

He cheats...

 But I was seriously LOVING how these turned out!

 In the apartment in Boston, we have this random shelf that I wasn't sure what to do with?

It quickly turned into our "seasonal shelf" and is going to be decked out for every holiday!

It just finished up being decorated for Halloween, and is making the transition into Thanksgiving!

I'll post updated pictures when it's finished! (: 

 

BY THE WAY, I printed that Halloween printable from somewhere online... and they spelled "Lantern" wrong --fail

Chocolate Fudge

Can I share with you some of the most delicious, richest, to die for fudge ever!?

We scouted this recipe out from an island up by Michigan that is KNOWN for its fudge!

 You will need:

2 packages of CHOCOLATE CHIPS

1/4 cup BUTTER, cut into pieces

1/2 teaspoon SALT

1/2 teaspoon VANILLA EXTRACT

2 cups SUGAR

1 cup EVAPORATED MILK

12 large MARSHMALLOWS, cut into halves

...and voila! Homemade fudge!!

The fudge tastes 50x better if you let it sit, chill, and form in the fridge!

 --Kaylie

Pumpkin Dip

How is the beautiful fall weather treating everyone? Climates have been fluctuating so much around here! Yesterday, it was so gorgeous, not too windy with a comfortable cool... and today it's raining!? 

I JUST WANT SOME SNOW!

I am doing everything in my power not to start decorating for Christmas, however to my roommate's dismay, I have broken out the Christmas tunes! They're so much fun!

This year we would LOVE to get a real tree up to our apartment, however.. FAT CHANCE... we live on the top floor, with a tiny stair well in the middle of the Boston. We are definitely going to try though!

In the spirit of fall, I've whipped up a batch of some Pumpkin Dip. I saw this recipe on one of my favorite blogs, and just had to give it a whirl!

This dip only calls for 5 simple ingredients and is wicked easy to prepare!

For this dip you will need:

15 ounce CAN OF PUMPKIN

5 ounce box of INSTANT VANILLA PUDDING

16 ounce container of COOL WHIP

1/2 Tablespoon of PUMPKIN PIE SPICE

1/2 Tablespoon of CINNAMON

 

First, mix pumpkin, dry pudding mix, cool whip, and pumpkin pie spice together (by hand) in a very large bowl.

 Next, let chill for several hours.

Finally, sprinkle the dip with cinnamon and serve with graham crackers, vanilla wafers, or apple slices!

Thanks to Christina over at Carolina Charm, I'm eating my weight in Pumpkin Dip! Thanks for sharing this delicious recipe!

ENJOY!!

--Kaylie

RAH RAH BOSTON!

So I'm almost a week late in my celebratory BOSTON WON THE WORLD SERIES post, but if you have any interest in having a small photo recap of how proud this city is, keep reading!

"Worst to First"

has been the quote around here lately. 

This city has once again gone to prove how strong and great everyone in it really is!

As predicted, when the Sox took the win, shit hit the roof around here! Restaurants with patio furniture had to have it put away or bolted to the ground, cars were flipped, and glassware was thrown into the air at restaurants resulting in a rain of glass and mess.

Prior to the win, the city had dressed up most of it's statues...

...because, apparently Paul Revere was a huge Sox fan...

and of course I had to make a bunting banner for the season!

Find the template here!

For the parade, they had the cued the Ducks, who drove from Fenway to the Charles River to celebrate with all of Boston and its fans!

Security was crazy, and they had every possible type of police transpo available. Horses, motorcycles, cruisers, boats, buses, bicycles, oh my! You name it, they were there! They had several buses that were just loaded with cops waiting on standby, just as they had for the word series games!

The streets were just crowded and impossible, however we resorted to staking out at the Esplanade so that we could watch them when they hit the Charles. It was not nearly as busy as the streets, and had quick access back to the North End! You should have seen the lines for the T after the parade! 

These pictures look at though I'm creeping from a bush.  

 David Ortiz raising a beer to me, I wish think?! (:

This Black Duck is the same duck I took for a tour the other day!

Basically, the city has been on champion high for the past week, and it feels so good. Great Job guys!!

Feels GREAT living in a city of champions!!!

--Kaylie