sunday loves: lucy lu.

happy sunday, friends!
what a fun day! we spent the afternoon at lucy's (my eventual step child) birthday party...then on to the pool...then onto a yummy mexican food dinner. pretty much all of my favorite things! the birthday party was so fun...her fun mama let her have pink hair! we had such a great time. i sure do love this little girl.
cheers,
savannah marie

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas...

hello, hello!
...and happy december 11th to you! we have had QUITE the day over here. busy, busy, busy! our saturdays normally do NOT start out at 7:30 AM, but this one did. we have been blessed with children that do not wake up at the crack of dawn & i love that. so anyway, we woke up early to get to a fundraiser at presley's school. they served us breakfast & we watched a movie on a big screen in their gym. presley got to introduce lucy to all of her school friends. (lucy lives with her mama & they don't go to the same school.)
we left the fundraiser & headed out to the christmas tree farm. we rode a tractor & saw some reindeer! the kiddos were hungry so we took them to eat pancakes for lunch & headed home to cook dinner, watch christmas vacation (twice), sing christmas songs together & get started on the decorating. we had plans to go to a charity event this evening, but the kiddos were totally exhausted & we realized it was probably best to skip the party & all stay in together. it was a lovely, lovely, day. i love my sweet family! hope you enjoy out photos.
cheers,
savannah
p.s. i'll share pics of the tree tomorrow when it's finished!

this is my kind of fiesta.

hello, hello!
happy tuesday! it's a quiet night here at camp ebv. the kiddo is in bed; the boy in the rock & roll band is in the recording studio; and me...i'm doing what i do best...sorting through loads of vintage lovelies & preparing for this week's photoshoots. i've got a lot scheduled for this week! some stuff scheduled in birmingham in the next couple of days & friday, i'm headed to atlanta to shoot with one of my good friends & one of the very first faces of ebv. i haven't seen her in quite a while & am super excited to play catch up...and dress up! the important part? there's about to be a whole crapton of new vintage pieces for sale in the shop. 60+ items listed right now, probably closer to 100 by sunday!
aside from all of that, i wanted to share a little piece of our night last night with you guys. the boy & i were home alone last night & we made one of our favorite recipes...mexican cheese soup. we shared a bottle of wine in front of the fireplace, ate soup, & watched about half of a really crappy movie before i fell asleep. you have to try this recipe!
cheers,
savannah marie

MEXICAN CHEESE SOUP
Ingredients:
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup diced green pepper
1/2 cup minced onion
1/3 cup all purpose flour
2 (10.5 ounce) cans chicken broth, undiluted low sodium
4 cups shredded monetery pepper jack cheese
1 (4.5 ounce) can chopped green chilies
2 large cans white meat chicken
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon ground red pepper
1 cup half & half

Directions
Melt butter in a large sauce pan over med-high heat; add bell pepper & onion & saute 3 to 4 minutes or until tender. Add flour, and cook, stir constantly about 2 minutes or until thickened. Reduce heat.

Stir in (shredded) cheese, chilies, chicken, & spices. Simmer, stirring often about 5 minutes. Stir in half & half & simmer for another 5 minutes or so until heated. Makes about 6 cups. Garnish with blue tortilla chips & enjoy!

a thanksgiving story.

hello, hello!
...and happy saturday to you! i hope you guys all survived black friday. personally, i didn't step one foot in any kind of shopping establishment all day yesterday. we live incredibly close (like across the street) from one of the biggest malls around & we are pretty much held hostage in our house in betweeen black friday & christmas. the traffic is bad enough to make you want to stay locked in your house hiding from holiday shoppers. my family & i used to have a fun tradition of visiting my laney's vacation home on beech mountain, north carolina & skiing the week of thanksgiving, eating & visting thanksgiving day, & then venturing down off the (hopefully) snowcapped mountain & shopping until we were exhausted on black friday. we didn't do that this year & i just don't think i can brave the black friday crazies without my mama & my aunt & sister & cousin. (including myself, we are pretty much 5 of the most determined power shoppers ever.)
however, what i did do on thanksgiving was super fun too. we spent the night before thanksgiving making squash casserole to take to thanksgiving lunch & then we headed out to the boy's rock & roll show. we tried to come home early to get in bed, but that didn't really work out so well. i had been kinda bummed that presley was with her daddy on thanksgiving this year, (to clarify...not bummed that she was getting to see his family, just bummed that i didn't have her) so we wanted to get out of the house.
the boy & i went to visit his grandma & have thanksgiving with his family. we were fortunate enough to have his little girl on thanksgiving, so that brightened my mood a lot. also, not only is his grandma completely adorable, she has a house full of the coolest vintage stuff ever! she showed me all kinds of gorgeous vintage dresses & something else that just melted by heart...she still has some of the clothes that nathan's grandpa wore when he was a little boy...in the late 30s/early 40s. so. unreal. precious. if we had little boys, omg, at what i would do for those outfits! she lives in the most beautiful place. it's about 2 hours south of birmingham & her home is the middle of tons & tons of acres of the most beautiful scenery. we walked all over the property & took photos. we will definitely be visiting grandma again soon for an ebv photoshoot!
enjoy the photos!
cheers,
savannah marie