Artichoke Festival 2012

I can't believe it's been over a month since I visited Castroville, CA and attended the Artichoke Festival! Every year I tell myself that I'm going and this year I finally made that dream come true! My friend Nate flew in from Salt Lake and we made the seven hour drive together.





We got to take a tour of the fields and pick our own artichokes!





Ours.

Grilled artichoke, my favorite. I got three.

Fried artichokes with Tapatio.

Artichoke taquitos.

Artichoke soup.

Last but not least, artichoke cupcake.



Working on her artichoke mermaid.

Artichoke flamingos!


Our charming bed and breakfast, Captains Inn.







Cutest decor.


Even the keys were adorable.




Truly one of the most magical experiences of my life.

I left my heart in March: St. George (part 2)

While I was visiting San Francisco in early March, it was decided that a road trip to Las Vegas was in order to see one of my oldest and dearest friends (and roommate!) who had recently moved back from New York. Shortly after which my mom had contacted me that she would be in hiking in Southern Utah that same week during my little brothers spring break. Immediately I called my best friend in Salt Lake to fly her ass down to Vegas and drive with me back to Utah. The weekend altogether was a blast and so much fun that I'm still smiling.

We hiked inside some pretty amazing caves & lava tubes in Snow Canyon It was freezing cold & snowing pretty much the whole time but beautiful nonetheless Pit stop at The Sweet Tooth Fairy on the way back to our hotel Fairy funfetti, raspberry lemonade & strawberry shortcake cupcakes ...and lunch (y'all don't know about my love for Arctic Circle) Someone is ready for the hot tub in his grocery bag that doubles as a swimsuit Cinnamon rolls for breakfast before heading back to San Diego

link love v.20

I absolutely need this vintage steamer in my life.

Whoa, cool technique for chopping onions.

Cute lace leggings.

A good little reminder of 30 things to stop doing to yourself. Take note, Ainsley.

An outfit that was made for me.

Tiny houses = ♥

These mini block polaroid albums are awesome.

DIY red velvet cupcakes in a jar.

So odd, but I love it, the invisible mother.

Fall photos

My goodness, time flies. Where have the past three months gone?!

Every time I do something fun, go somewhere new and exciting or eat pretty much anything I always plan on coming back here and writing about it. It's important to me that I can always look back and remember how life was (I still to this day find myself occasionally logging into livejournal and reading about my adventures...and misadventures). But life happens and I've been so incredibly busy with work and getting ready to go home for the holidays, so here is a little photo round up of the past few months, if only for myself to look back on what it was like living this single life stint in San Diego, before picking up and moving this journey on elsewhere...













December Nights:


















obsessed with salt & vinegar chips, like her mama



Disneyland:










Space Mountain, on repeat




Die Hard, pool side


5am hotel baths


First, last and only photo taken with my brand new instax camera before accidentally/stupidly leaving it at said hotel of jerks and thieves