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Weekend Recap: Blackouts, Delicious Food & Art Fair

By: Annie Wagner

Annie here – we had quite the weekend in Ann Arbor. Brian and I had date night plans on Friday to celebrate our five year anniversary since we have a new live in nanny – my sister, Emma ;). Our plans were foiled by crazy storms and a 20 hour power outage. Thankfully we have very sweet friends Hunter, Jillian and their daughter and Margot’s bestie, Maya, invited us over for a sleepover in their air conditioned house. Thank goodness for good friends (who also happened to have power). We made the best of the situation and woke up early Saturday morning and had a lovely breakfast on the patio before it got too hot to be outside.

  • Margot admiring herself in my five year wood anniversary gift to B

While we waited for our power to come back on we enjoyed one of our favorite gourmet lunches, chicken bakes at Costco – YUM.

  • Costco Chicken Bake –
    pretty much why we have a membership
  • Weekend uniform –
    Madewell jorts, cotton tee and scrunchie bun
  • Happy to be back home with her ‘looks’

After lunch and some errands, we came home to our power back on and all took naps in the air conditioning. We ended our Saturday with dinner and water games outside back at our friends house. Jillian made a delicious meal – Shauna Niequist’s Lemon Dill Soup and Summer Salad from her cookbook Savor: Living Abundantly Where You Are, As You Are (recipes pictured below) – nothin like hot soup on the hottest day of the year! Call us crazy but it was SO good and refreshing. I’d eat that soup on the sun.

Sunday morning was a little cooler so we decided to head to the Ann Arbor Art Fair. This is one of our little towns biggest events of the year that brings artists from all over the world and over 400,000 visitors! We enjoyed all kinds of art as well as some delicious fair food.

  • Waffle on a Stick – I love the midwest
  • Free Mojito flavored La Croix – yes please!

After a very hot weekend, we decided to stay in Sunday evening and make tostadas and watch season 2 of Big Little Lies. If you don’t have HBO, now is the time to start your free trial and binge watch both seasons of BLL – we haven’t finished the second season so no spoilers please!!

  • Lazy Sunday with my girl 🙂
  • Kitchen Sink Tostadas –
    basically all of our leftovers from the week piled on a crispy tortilla

Sending cooler weather your way!

xoxo Annie

ChildServe’s Bubble Ball 2019

By: Emily Heaston

Tim and I had a wonderful night attending the Bubble Ball Musical Mashup benefiting ChildServe. I wanted to share a quick recap of the night which featured amazing performances from the Brazilian 2wins and a runway show with costumes made out of bubble wrap! We were thrilled to be a part of ChildServe’s big night which raised money to invest in state-of-the-art technology for the children and teens they serve right here in Iowa.

I loved wearing my Vince dress from Blond Genius and paired it with comfy linen Toms espadrilles. I loved the vintage rose color for early spring and can’t wait to wear it again. You can also find it here in black.

XO, Blond Genius!

By: Emily Heaston

Yesterday morning, my girlfriends and I were treated to a private shopping event at Blond Genius! Erin and her team had just unloaded beautiful inventory for spring and served mimosas, yogurt parfaits, donuts and other goodies! I purchased this dress by Vince (and Spanx boyshorts) and can’t wait to wear it to ChildServe’s Bubble Ball on Saturday night! There were so many cute lightweight sweatshirts for Spring that it was hard to choose just one, but this Wildfox Super Girly sweatshirt came home with me too!

Thank you, Blond Genius, for having us! We love visiting your beautiful store and appreciate all that you do to make it a kid-friendly space where we don’t feel rushed while we are browsing!

  • Vince Pleated Self-Tie High-Low Midi Dress
  • WILD FOX – Somers Sweater in Heather Grey

Spanx Everyday Shaping Panties Boyshort • Spanx • $22
Wildfox Couture Super Girly Sommers Sweater | Heather • Wildfox Couture • $118
Vince Pleated Self-Tie High-Low Midi Dress • Vince • $178