Happy Monday everyone! How was your weekend? Mine was a lot of fun. It was busy but not too busy and the weather was perfect. It was a great fall weekend. Make sure to link up to your weekend snapshots at the bottom of this post!
I went on a bit of a pumpkin overload this weekend with a pumpkin spice latte and pumpkin spice cupcake from Aromas. ‘Tis the season!
Josh and I attended the Better Together Bash at Creighton on Friday night. While Omaha is an incredibly safe city, North Omaha is disproportionately dangerous. It’s also very segregated and very impoverished. Abide Omaha organized the event to raise city awareness of their work and raise funds so that one day there will be no inner city in Omaha.
We got to hear some incredibly moving speakers and watch Michael Jr. give a hilarious comedy performance. This organization is doing a lot of good in the community and I left the event inspired and motivated to do more.
Saturday Josh and I went to the Holland Stages Event to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Omaha Performing Arts. OPA is an absolute jewel in the Omaha community and I can’t believe they have done so much in only 10 years. The Holland Stages Event was a free all-day event with numerous musical acts. Josh and I took a tour of the Holland and then caught a few performances inside before heading outside to see Bandaloop perform.
Bandaloop does vertical dancing and it is quite a sight to see!
It was beautiful and breathtaking and I can definitely say I have never seen an act like this before.
I really enjoyed the performance and getting to catch up with Julie afterwards.
For dinner Josh and I walked over to Rock Bottom. We managed to catch the end of the Husker game on TV which was great. These pretzel bites were unreal.
And I loved my chicken sandwich. I enjoy food infinitely more when avocados are involved. 😀
Sunday was a low key day. Josh and I had a movie marathon morning watching Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (and the sequel). We thought the movies would be entertaining but we had no idea we would love them as much as we did. We laughed and laughed and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. If you’re looking for a funny and heartwarming movies series to check out I highly recommend this one.
Sunday afternoon was a shopping day to pick up some new items for my closet. I do not have the body for a trapeze dress, and therefore did not get this LOFT dress but it was the only picture I snapped of the experience. There are some great sales going on right now!
After shopping I met up with Josh to head over to our friend Bryan’s house to meet his adorable cat Chester. Chester and Punkin could be twins! While we were there we got to chat over delicious (spiked!) hot cocoa. It was such a great night!
Questions of the Day: What were you up to this weekend? Do you like spiked hot cocoa? Have you seen Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs? What organization is a gem in your community?
Vertical dancing?!? Wow, that definitely sounds breathtaking! 🙂
Have a great week!
That cupcake looks so good!!
great pictures honey!!!
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That Friday night event sounds really cool. And your yummy food snapshots are making me hungry!! Happy Monday 🙂
I bet that performance was incredible in person!
Would have loved to see that vertical dancing! And maybe try it … sounds like a riot 🙂
Vertical dancing looks so cool!
such a lovely post with so beautiful photos! You did a great job!
I’ve been meaning to watch that movie forever! I loved the book as a kid, so I wanted to see if I’d love the movie just as much!
You had such a productive weekend. That food at the benefit looked amazing. I went bowling on Friday and Breast Cancer walk on Sunday and thats it. Now I’m ready to start my week.
Yay for fun fall weekends. I also had a good one filled with apple picking and spiked cider. Your cupcake looks so good and spiked cocoa sounds perfect !
I’ve wanted to watch that movie for forever–the book is so cute!!
That looks like the pumpkin cupcake to beat all other pumpkin cupcakes!
What an awesome weekend! Those pretzel bites look crazy good!
You got so much done in one weekend, Erin. Love the spiced lattes in general. That fit+flare striped dress is too cute. Yeaaaay for cute dresses!
That pumpkin cupcake looks delicious. I think the bandaloop performers have come around my area for the fringe festival, but I have yet to be able to see them. It looks really cool though.
That vertical dancing looks interesting.
Amazing post!
Have a nice evening!
That pumpkin spice cupcake looks amazing! Glad you had a fun, event-filled weekend!
Vertical dancing sounds so cool! And those pretzel bites look like heaven. Yum.
I am all about EVERYTHING PUMPKIN too! Happy Monday!
You seriously know how to make the most out of your weekend! Looks like a fabulous time!
That sounds like an amazing performance. Oh, and look at all the good food you ate.
Vertical dancing sounds like so much fun and I love salty pretzels they are delicious!
Looks like you had a very full fun weekend! I would love to see the vertical dancing!
That cupcake and pumpkin spice latte looked amazing. Gave me some serious cravings this morning 🙂 What a wonderful event to attend. And, the entertainment looked crazy. I’ve never seen anything like that before.
These pictures are making me so hungry. Love those pretzel bites.
That pumpkin spice muffin looks heavenly!
All the food looks amazing!
This looks so good. Love!
Sounds like a weekend filled with some great events and lots of great food – I am totally craving that cupcake!
haha your face in that dress you didn’t get is my face when trying on jeans!! 😉
Man I need to start posting about my weekends on my blog..I want to participate in your link-up! I think I post that stuff more so on Instagram. Or snapchat. 🙂
Oh! Also I’m doing pumpkin week on my blog with 5 other bloggers so I’m right there with ya on pumpkin-all-the-things!
Looks like you enjoyed a true Omaha weekend! Love all the accompanying photos.
Looks so fun! and that cake look so yummy!
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Such beautiful photos – I love everything pumpkins, too! Oh and that bandaloop – I have never seen anything like it and you probably won’t find me doing it either…LOL! Too afraid of heights!!
Looks like a fun weekend filled with lots of yummy food! Jealous of the spiked cocoa!
looks like a fun time!
The cupcakes look so good.
OMG the vertical dancing looks amazing! I’ve never heard or seen of it before. And sadly I can’t do a trapeze style dress either even though I keep wishing I could 🙂
Vertical Dancing sounds found and how was the ALE?
Looks like a fun weekend. The vertical dancing looks amazing.
What a neat event. Those dancers and the food look spectacular.
Love your photos, cupcake looks yummy I wanna grab it lol.
What a whirlwind weekend. Such great experiences and memories. I too think some foods just taste better with avocado. 😉
Cloudy is one of my husbands and my favorites! We saw the first one on one of our first dates and when I found out he enjoyed it, I knew he was the one, haha.
That performance looks interesting…
P. S. Love your food photos!
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Sounds like you had a great weekend and a fun event the food was looks good
What a productive weekend. So nice of you to attend a charity event and help raise awareness. The bandaloop dancers are so awesome! I love the dress on you, hope you bought it.
Vertical dancing is something else!
That looks like a fun event. The food looks mouth watering. I got hungry looking at your photos.
What a fun filled weekend! That gala look great, and I’ve never seen vertical dancers! I do like spiked Hot chocolate, and you wouldn’t believe it but I still haven’t seen cloudy with a chance of meatballs!
that vertical dancing looked awesome. the food plates looked fantastic as well.
That vertical dancing looks like it was really cool. Love anything pumpkin so I’m with you on the cupcake.
Coffee and cupcakes! Yummy indeed! I am sold already.
What a fun weekend! I definitely need to step my pumpkin game up.
Your weekend looks like it was totally amazing!
That was amazing. I lived the moments through your photographs.
Looks like great food. We celebrated my son’s birthday this past weekend.
Oh, I don’t think there’s such a thing as “too much” pumpkin! 😉 Vertical dancing, though? Yikes!
I have never seen anything like that – vertical dancing! So scary! But fascinating. Thank you so much for linking up with SHOE AND TELL on Style Nudge!!
That cupcake looks AMAZING! Your weekends always make mine look mediocre 🙂 Love looking at all of your pictures!
I would not have been able to enjoy that dancing because I’m terrified of heights! I would have been scared for them the whole entire time! Also, that dress would have been super cute with a belt!
i’m so jealous of your lifestyle! it seems so amazing! but i just can’t get over how much money you must spend!
Hey Deborah! We actually save more than we spend.