The One Where Family Visits...

Another good weekend, and another team who plays OSU, bites the dust. ;)

But today, I'm OK with that because we leave for California so soon! Come ask me that next week and I'm SURE I will be feeling very differently.

Our weekend can be summed up with: good friends, eating out, lots of football, and even some 4 wheeling. Friday-We took Billy's friends to The Pint House in the Short North for dinner and then to Seventh Son Brewery for some drinks afterwards. Ever since I got the truffle mac and cheese when we were in Chicago, it now pops off the menu at me and basically forces me to order it. My girlfriend Jen and I split the skillet mac and cheese at The Pint House and it TOPPED the truffle mac and cheese in Chicago. Oh my goodness...so so good.

Saturday-We all got up and went to get coffee together before the rest of Billy's family came into town. They got in around noon and we just played games outside in our backyard until we headed to campus to tailgate for the Ohio State game!

As we were all just hanging out in the backyard, all of a sudden Billy's family friend who lives in Cleveland drives through our backyard on his 4 wheeler...no one even had any idea he was coming! He was 4 wheeling somewhere else in Ohio and decided to randomly surprise us and come visit. Within 2 minutes of him arriving, I hopped on the back of that 4 wheeler and took it for a spin around our neighborhood.

Oh, I also made these brownies per Erin's suggestion. You should probably just go buy these ingredients today and make them.

One box of your favorite brownie mix
One big log of chocolate chip cookie dough
One box of Oreos (preferably the orange Halloween ones ;))

Grease the bottom of your brownie pan, mix up the brownie mix, layer the cookie dough on the bottom, then layer Oreos on top, top with the brownie mix. Bake according to the brownie mix box.

Then, eat your heart out.

I have a lot to do before we leave (I think I have 3 different to-do lists scattered around in different areas of our house), but I will be posting a couple more times this week because I have two great giveaways coming up soon that I know you will want to enter (hint hint Zappos!), so be on the lookout for those this week. :)

California, I'm comin' for you!
{we are even excited for the flight...hello gorgeous mountain views!!}

Fall In Our Home + Our New Chairs (!!)

 

{I spy white trim!}

Happy Friday!

 The Krysh household has been busy this week.

We got a new roof {who would've thought picking out a roof color would be so exciting?}, painted the whole downstairs trim white, got new hardware for our doors downstairs, and guess what was delivered/put together this week?

Our new tufted chairs for our kitchen table.

We just love them. They are more ivory than the website pictures, which actually works in our favor because they match our kitchen table legs perfectly and they show less dirt than white or a "natural" color. If you are looking for tufted dining chairs (and trust me, I looked everywhere), I highly recommend these. They are comfortable, too!

As you can tell, I caved and pulled out some of our fall decor. The weather this week has been a high of 80 and low's in the 60's, with hardly any clouds in the sky. IT HAS BEEN PERFECT! So basically what I'm saying is, I had no choice. The fall decor was coming out whether I liked it or not. Has anyone else put out their fall decor yet?!

So, moving right along, this weekend is going to be a big one for many reasons-

Billy's best friend and his wife are coming in town tonight....tomorrow Billy's brother and 4 cousins are coming in town....AND Ohio State has a huge game against Wisconsin....

#1. this means 8 people staying at our casa (follow me on instagram for picture overload!). I've got my hands full! 
#2. The Buckeyes need a big win!
#3. Most importantly, it's going to be SO much fun. I can't wait to see everyone.

What are you doing this weekend?

you know, besides cheering on my Buckeyes...

SOURCES:
Chairs-Overstock
Kitchen table-Husband refinished this!
Light over kitchen table: Pottery Barn
White vase, hydrangeas, and table runner: Target
Candle holders: I can barely remember, but I think Target (clearly I have a Target shopping problem...)
Plastic pumpkins, glitter skull, and wooden pumpkin: Target ($1!)
Chalkboard: World Market

 

Weekend Happies // Reunited THIS Week...

You know that saying, "wake up every Monday knowing that something amazing will happen this week"?

Yes...? No...?

I may have edited the words to this quote just a bit, but that's because I know for a fact that this week is going to be a good one {excuse me-every week is good, but this week is particularly better than others}. That's because I will be reunited with my bff here in blog land on Thursday evening....

and so will our men...

 remember this pic from Naples? good times, good times.

 

I'm already counting down the hours until we pack up the car and road trip it to Chicago with Billy! I'm so excited to see them-my heart is already doing BIG happy dances. Rocky is ready to see his Texas friends, too.

Okay, sorry. On to the weekend recap.

  
We had our first fire this weekend...complete with s'mores, Octoberfest, and sweatpants.

Can we all agree that this is the only real way to have a fire? I can't even imagine a fire without s'mores.

 "How can I have more if I haven't had anything yet?" -you better know what movie this is from

If you haven't tried Reese Cup s'mores, you haven't lived please do me a favor this fall season and try them. You will never go back to regular chocolate s'mores ever again. Or maybe you will if you are like me and like one of each. ;)

 

The crackling of the fire, the smell, the relaxation...I love it all. Couldn't have been more enjoyable.

Afterwards, we decided to dig into our old movie collection and Billy even let me pick the movie (which I'm sure he is regretting at this point), so I did what any logical girl would do-pick one of my all time favorite Disney movies, Man Of The House, starring your old flame JTT. Please tell me some of you remember the awesomeness of this movie?

Billy's jaw was dropped due to how many lines of this movie I still have memorized. Especially when I told him I downloaded some of the soundtrack and that I would try to memorize the rain dance that they do. They just don't make movies like this anymore.

It also got me to thinking about my childhood when I was in Indian Princesses' with my Dad....can you just picture that for a second?

My tribe name was Little Rainbow. My Dad's? Big Howling Bear. So very unique, I know. 

Saturday was spent at my girlfriend, Sarah's, big tailgate for the OSU game. She has two big tents set up with yummy food, drinks, and a big flatscreen tv in the back of her car to watch the game.

My headband is from Nora and Jac (get one with your football colors!) and my necklace is from Lilies and Fillies. My top is a couple years old from H&M.

{heading to the first tailgate of the season with all the necessities}

Have I mentioned that Subway caters and you can get sandwich platters that are perfect for OSU tailgates like this? Delicious.

Sunday. Hmm..let's see...you guessed it: MORE football....

but with this little cutie (my girlfriend Marissa's little boy-Maddox) it was much more enjoyable. How cute are they all together on the couch? Heart.melted.

How was your weekend? What is your favorite pumpkin flavored beer? 

Share with me, would ya?! I want new ones to try!

Labor Day Weekend / Anniversary Pt. 2

*if you missed pt.1 read here first

Hope everyone had a good holiday weekend! Skipping Monday and getting right into Tuesday has been pretty awesome so far...who's with me?

Not to mention, this weekend was the start of college football, which can also be known as THE best time of year here in Columbus. I mean look:

What can be better than a bunch of Buckeye fans all together in the Shoe cheering on the team on an absolutely gorgeous day? Not much! 

Ohio State came out with a win over Buffalo and it was really fun to be at the first home game of the year. Our seats were somewhat in the shade, which ended up being awesome because it was so hot and humid. 

I actually got my hair done that morning before the game (a few highlights in it!) but made sure I had on my Buckeyes gear so that I was ready to go afterwards...

After the game, if you remember what I mentioned on Friday, we had plans to go to Scioto Reserve to eat dinner where we got married! 

It was the absolute best part of the weekend, hands down.

 

(dress I wore to dinner-from forever21)

We pulled up and immediately started talking about our day and it couldn't have been more fun to be back there and experience it all again (you know minus the dress, our bridal party, the guests, etc). 

I really enjoyed being there JUST with Billy...I love that man for planning something so special.

(it was so humid that my lens kept fogging up!)

Our server was so good to us. She knew it was our anniversary and took a bunch of pictures for us, surprised us with the most delicious cheesecakes for dessert, and told us that her coworker who works a lot of the weddings there walked by our table and knew our names and remembered our wedding from three years ago! It was so funny.

The rest of our weekend was spent running a bunch of errands, lunch with my best friend Lindsay and her mom at BJ's Brewhouse, taking Rocky to the dog park and to get his haircut (I mean he has to be all nice and groomed for his trip to Chicago soon!), and then we headed out in the Short North with Billy's cousin Greg and his friends who were in town for a wedding the previous night.

We went to The Pint House again and ventured to a couple other places in the area afterwards. 

How was your Labor Day weekend?

Link up with Sami and tell us!

PS: The winner of my Albion Fit giveaway is April! Congratulations April. Thank you all for entering!