{ snooki }

I love the fact that I have family in jersey 

it's always a good time, especially when my family is in town
we ate we drank and ate some more and when it rained
we had an all morning father of the bride movie festival
we definitely spent time on the jersey shore though under the jersey sun
and my cousin my uncle and I spent a morning
biking & running & biking some more all along the jersey shore
my uncle put it well...nothing quite fits in jersey, yet somehow it all fits
there was even a snooki sighting by the wisconsin cousins on their last day
thank you jersey for everything you are...we had a great time.
love,
fern & co.

p.s. I'm getting good at taking iphone pictures while biking...

{ f is for family }

F is for family....

we had a little family reunion in the mountains

and my favorite part was sitting around looking at old photos

hearing stories about my grandfather and the brothers 

it was everything I could want in a reunion 

and as my family says, it's always happy hour somewhere... 

 they certainly always know how to the get party started...

my grandfather with a keg, so typical, so Fernholz. 

{ sister love }

Although she hates the city, my little sis made her way out of the fresh mountain air to 

come visit me this past weekend.  She was the perfect visitor...just wanted to hang out with 

me and didn't care about filling her scrapbook with New York tourist moments so...

we did NYC...my way.  Walked around the west village until the sun set and found the 

perfect corner bistro for dinner with joele...a central park picnic by the pond...saw performance 

art at moma that none of us will ever get...and a drive and hike up the delaware water gap.  

The city was perfect this weekend!  My family doesn't love my camera like my friends do...

I attempted to get a pic of Kells and I and all I got was goofy smile face but 

goofy smile face always makes me laugh so I'm okay with that.

{ my mother likes red }

my mother loves the color red.

she goes in phases with different colors but I think

red has trumped them all.

she bought me a lovely peach rose on my birthday

and then asked me what my favorite color was...

I told her I don't really have a favorite color

as I love them all,

then she told me her favorite color is red.

I looked over at her...

I'll second her love of red.

{ sweet }

I was doing a little reorganization last night and came across a folder with some papers of my

 grandmothers that I had saved after she passed. She wrote lists and quotes and thoughts and 

whatever else all over everything...a trait we both share. There was one sweet note in there, 

expressing how grateful she was to have been with my grandfather as long as she had.

sweet.

love you grandma.

{ fathers day }

happy fathers day daddy.

I miss you.

love,

me

{ brelly }

my cute little sister got married this past weekend.

the wedding was perfect and in true Fernholz fashion, we closed the place down.

{ CONGRATULATIONS kelly & bret! }

or more appropriate, "brelly!"

LOVEYOUTWO!

{ mamacita! }

mom flew out to NYC for the perfect Mother's Day weekend...(minus the hair piece!)

FRIDAY night started with the nyc ballet...the four temperments, la stravanga and chaconne. 

I'd been a few times but nothing compared to this. I've been to the Nutcracker, Midsummers Nights Dream and other more theatrical performances, which were brilliant but this ballet was much more my style. 

 Just a simple backdrop and the dancers. I have to admit I was even moved to tears on a few of the jumps. 

 I definitely need to attend more often!

SATURDAY morning was spent making cupcakes for that evening's joint birthday party, then we ventured up to the Cloisters in Ft. Tryon Park. It was quite a hike up there but I'm so glad we made the trek. Definitely go if you've never been! Then it was party time...the perfect night for a rooftop party.

SUNDAY started off with a delicious brunch...jalapeno & feta frittata and buckwheat pancakes with berries and whipped cream...yum! Then church and a gorgeous bike ride through central park.

At the end of her trip, she even gave me her heart...literally!

 A cute mini gold heart necklace that she'd been wearing all weekend.

THANKS mom!

{ hair screening }

I'll let Matt tell the story on this one:

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Pamela Pamela Pamela! What are we going to do with her. I say we take the hairpiece and do something fun with it. So, did she tell you what happened with the hairpiece? We were having breakfast with Ruth and Rob and Pam told us this story. She said on her way through security in Denver that she was wearing her Jean jacket that was part of her outfit. Security said she had to take the jacket off because she was buzzing. Pam refused! She told security it was part of her outfit and that she would not take it off. During the story, we are all like...you do what security tells you to do, post 9/11. Anyway we went on about eating our meal.

In the evening Pam was taking me to dinner. She then said that she had lied to Ruth and Rob about security. I said what are you talking about? Well come to find out, it was not her jacket that set off the alarm at security, it was her hairpiece. They insisted that she take off the hairpiece and put it through screening. So there this piece of fake hair is sitting all alone going through the screening...then after it checked out, she put it back on. lol

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My cute mother always makes me laugh!

SNL here's your next skit.

{ image found via photo shelter }

{ the 190 trip }

I couldn't be happier...

5+ days of sunshine, family & friends.

the 190 trip to be exact.

a few of my cousins turned 30 and the aunt & uncle 50

30 + 30 + 30 + 50 + 50 = 190

...like we needed an excuse to get together.

...I was OVER winter in NYC and needed a break.

The trip started in Huntington and then I made my way south to our final destination, Coronado...

Between R & R, eating (and more eating), boat cruises and an impromptu dance party, it couldn't have been more perfect.

I'm starting to question why I ever left Cali??? It really is great here.

Although I know when I get back to NYC, it will feel like home there too.

left vs. right coast...hmmm.

I love both equally.

Although right now, the left coast trumps it.

I'm off to the beach...