Italian food with friends

I have all kinds of friends, friends who I know since I was in high school, some friends I met back in college, friends from church and friends that have become friends along the way and friends that even though I don't see very often are still very dear to my heart.
Well these are my friends that I met back in Jr College and we tried to meet at least once a month to catch up and keep each other accountable, some of us are married, some others are single and others are in a relationship but the we have two things in common we love food and we love to laugh!
so every time we get together we always break bread together and laugh until our cheeks and our bellies hurt.
I love this ladies and this past time they wanted to try a new place so I took them to Devanti Enoteca in Little italy, we shared all kinds of cheeses, salads, pasta, pizza and my personal favorite Focaccia with honey comb and finished the night with a walk around Little Italy.
we had a great time and I cannot wait for next month to get together again and also meet with the ones who couldn't make it this time.

a Cupcake tradition

Ever since we met, my friend Mayra and I have bonded over JUNK FOOD

I know, sad but true one of my guilty pleasures is anything that is junk I love and so does she, even though I try to eat healthy and avoid it I have to give in sometimes.

We have a tradition where we take each other out for our birthday and try a new cupcake place together and I must say it is a pretty sweet tradition!

This year I took her to Sprinkles for her birthday and as we were so excited to have our cupcake we also found some cute little shops around there an decided to go in and explore.

We found a little store where they have everything for scrap booking, awesome papers and cards and it was just DIY heaven!

Can't wait for June so we can try another cupcake place together for my birthday!

Lunch with the Olson's

This past year we got to know and build a great bond with Kyle and Mayra so it was just obvious that we wanted to celebrate a whole year of doing life and ministry together and we went out to lunch with them.
We always go on and on about our love for ribs and BBQ that they wanted to try one of our favorite places and we ended up at Claim Jumper.
It was an awesome time together and I cannot wait for their wedding next month!!!!