Saturday, February 18, 2006

haylie's here!

Yesterday I picked up my awesome little sister from the airport! She's here visiting for the weekend & I'm so stoked. It's been a year, which both of us can hardly believe... it's been the longest we've ever been apart, so it's about time we get a weekend to hang out!

Haylie's had a lot go down in the last year. One biggie being that she's now a Freshman in High School. oy! I remember those days, but she seems to be handling it pretty well. :) She's a smart kid: 4.0 GPA - aww yaa, little sis! She's also in Choir, French and Art. Oh & she's started skiing more this year, too, which is cool.

So anyway, picked her up & the first thing we did was go grab lunch. I took her to Savor in Noe Valley, which is one of my favorite restaurants because they have such yummy salads. Well, yummy everything, and on nice days you can sit out back, too. But yesterday was rainy and cold, so we snuggled inside & enjoyed our lunch, and the opportunity to catch up!

After lunch we walked around 24th St. doing a little shopping. We went to Urban Nest, Noe Knit, Ambiance, Gallery of Jewels and Just for Fun, stopping only briefly for a soy latte for me & passion tazo tea for her @ Starbucks. :)

on the go girls in noe valley

Lastnight we met Mateo at Triptych for dinner and since it just happens to be Matt's birthday today - Happy Birthday, Matt!! - we got to celebrate that with him and shower him with love, gifts and most importantly: eat a yummy chocolatey birthday dessert! heheee :p

sisters!

me w/ matt & haylie

I was pretty excited to try this new SOMA restaurant, too, and the service was top notch. They had a DJ that played good music and art all over the walls, and the food was really delicious! I highly recommend it and can't wait to go back myself. Apparently there's even an outdoor area that's open for brunch! wahoo!

After Haylie & I got home, we got our jammies on, crawled in bed & watched Uptown Girls on Haylie's Powerbook. Haylie dozed off, but I watched the whole thing. Very cute movie!

Today Haylie & I have been lounging around the house. We woke up & made a yummy scrambled egg breakfast & then settled in to our respective computers to geek out. :p Believe me, my little sister loves this just as much as I do. I got all my photos posted & blogging done that's been way over due, and Haylie even took an afternoon cat nap! aaww yaa, vacation! :)

We had a quick lunch, played with Kazoobie here & there and now we may finally going to start working on a few of the crafty projects we meant to start a tad earlier in the day. Oh & mid-day we wanted a snack & I made us some deviled eggs! It was my first time making them... it was pretty exciting. :)

They were good!

Here's the link to the Photo Album!

Tonite we don't have too many plans. It's pretty nice just to stay inside where it's all warm & cozy. It's been sooo frigid out the last few days! So we may watch a movie. I'm insisting we rent a few "classics" that Haylie's never seen (which blows me away, since they were at the core of my youth!): Breakfast Club, Heathers, E.T., or Goonies. :)

Click here to read the post about the remainder of the weekend