Friendsgiving 2015

Despite the outcome of the game, I love spending time with these fellow and future Wolverines and watching the Michigan contingency grow :) 

GO BLUE!

My Loves

Stella & Cole

Pippin Pix

This dog just makes me smile :) 

  

LPZ Employee Collaboree

So much to be thankful for this holiday season. This place and it's people ranking high up on the list.

Let there be light!

Gnome Crossing

New Leash on Life

As luck should have it, I was connected with a wonderful couple in Lincoln Park looking for a live-in dog-sitter... for three months!

Yes, please, thank you.

Please meet Pippin :)

The adorable cockapoo who I have the pleasure to stay with through February. 

We are one week in and I've taken quite quickly to my adopted furry nephew-pal. My camera roll is all things Pippin. Stella has nicknamed him "Pirate Zuma" and my heart melts when I catch her having conversations with him. The barista at Elaine's coffee takes a break just to pet him. People on the street stop and smile at his mohawk. I wake up excited to take him for a walk before work and I can't wait to get home to do it all over again. 

  

Feeling very grateful that this serendipitous second job has come along this holiday season. It's like life has handed me a high-five in the form of a four legged friendship :)

  

6 Month Vortex

Yowsers! Where have the last 6 months gone?

Have the day off of work and am getting back on the blog-wagon :)

Pix soon to be posted below of the past half year. Time flies!

First Annual Fall Fest

A November tradition has been born :)

Happy Hall-oween!

  

Welcome to the world, baby Cole!

Congratulations, Kendra & SJ for making yet another beautiful baby :)

Welcome to the world, Cole Joseph Hall

Born October 28th, 2015

8 lbs 4 oz of awesome

Boy oh boy are you loved! 

Aunt Stace 2.0

   

Congratulations, Bari & Jeff!

It feels like yesterday that Bari and I were roommates at a wedding together in South Carolina and she had just said yes to go out with this guy named Jeff :) Fast forward 500 days to the wedding of the year and my heart absolutely exploding to see you two as husband and wife. Throw in a speech from the former President of the United States and potentially the future POTUS... well, I would say that is in fact the recipe for one unforgettable evening!

To the new Mr. & Mrs. Westerberg, 

Thank you for sharing your love and including me in your absolutely epic wedding celebration. You have truly raised the bar. May we all be so lucky!

I adore you and cannot wait to get back to NYC to spend more time together sans the secret service men that wouldn't dance with me ;)

Your tamest wedding guest,

Stace

SO MUCH LOVE!

Stella at LEAP

Getting to be one of Stella's teachers every Thursday morning at our Learn, Explore and Play class at the zoo is the highlight of my work week. She literally melts my heart.