Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Goodbye Parties and Welcome Brunches

We had a great weekend last weekend.  Valentine's day was great. I came into work to a few pleasant surprises from a coworker.  She loves to bake so she brought in some delicious treats for everyone.  She also has been trying to get rid of a few of her grandmother's items that are no longer in use, and one of them was a pin cushion.  With my new found obsession of sewing, my ears perked up to this. A vintage pin cushion WITH pins!

Flowers from Tom :)  They are so pretty!

Tom's Valentine's cupcakes from Molly's

Saturday night we met up with our friend Jess and a bunch of her friends at Brownstone Tavern.  Sadly Jess is moving to New York this week.  It's a great opportunity for her, but we're going to miss her a lot!

Bye Jess! We'll miss you!

Sunday we met up with my cousin Laurel and my Aunt Shirley. We are so excited to be welcoming Laurel to Chicago!!  She found a great apartment in the South Loop with a killer view.  We met up for brunch at The Bongo Room, where initially they told us the wait was going to be 60-90 minutes!  We walked around to a few other nearby brunch hot spots, put our names in, and eventually walked back to the Bongo Room.  Good thing, too, since they called our names soon after.  I would definitely recommend checking out the red velvet pancakes here if you are ever in the area for breakfast.  And since pancakes are a breakfast food, I'm sure they are healthy ;)
Laurel's killer view of the lake!!


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