A Milwaukee blogger brunch

Karis hosted a lovely brunch at her house on Sunday morning. Two other Milwaukee area bloggers, Erica and Alysha also attended!

I loved the sign on her front door! I laughed as I approached her house.

Karis is a typical Virgo and very organized (I am not a typical Virgo since I am not as organized at home). She had a menu written out with ingredients and the source. It was also sort of a joke and you can read about it on her blog post.

Karis’s husband, Chris, opened the prosecco for our mimosas.

We started with fresh homemade cinnamon-sugar donuts, which were delicious! My husband saw the picture I took of them and couldn’t believe Karis made homemade donuts. He wouldn’t let me get a donut pan though, however. Silly husband, as he would benefit directly from it more than I would.

While Karis cooked, I enjoyed watching her cats, Merlot and Chianti, be mischievous.

Chianti reminds me so much of our cat, Tanzi.

The other fantastic brunch items we had were Vanilla Chobani greek yogurt with berries, nuts, coconut and granola.

A fritatta with kale and onions.

Here is my plate…we also had some fresh cantalope and red potatoes.

After we were done eating, we went outside for the photo and admired Karis and Chris’s container garden, which is doing quite well.

I proceeded to admire her cats. I love that her cats have a little area to sit outside in. Ours don’t go outside and they would probably beg to go out all the time.

It was a great morning and afternoon spent with fun and friendly bloggers! I am so thankful for blogging as it has connected me with new people I wouldn’t have met otherwise.

Head on over to Karis’s blog to check out the recipes she used.

Sunday brunch

I got up somewhat early today, read the ads in the newspaper, watched CBS Sunday morning and got ready to leave the house to drive forty minutes away for brunch at my friend’s house.

I knew I couldn’t wait to eat brunch after 10 a.m., so I had some coffee and an Athenos greek peach yogurt before leaving.

At my friend’s house, it was fun to visit with the girls and see two of their babies.

Baby Daniela and her mama Kelly

Baby Aidan and his mommy Loni

Aidan with my friend Jenny

My brunch plate. I went back for some more french toast and strawberries. Enjoyed it with more coffee and orange juice.

Us girls visited into the early afternoon, mostly concerned about some very serious matters in the world. I guess being 30 years old and over makes us concerned about such things. We still discussed fitness, beauty and nutrition too (topics dear to my heart of course).

After visiting, I drove to my parents’ house because they live out that way in the country. My mama fixed some of my clothes, so I was picking those up–she hemmed pants and patched holes. I cannot sew for the life of me and she has a nice sewing machine and is a quilter. We visited for a while and on my way home, I realized that my afternoon of talking left me with a very sore throat that is still lingering.

It was a dreary day here and the rain and clouds made me want to go home and curl up on the couch. I sort of did that and read magazines, a book, we finished watching Despicable Me and now I am enjoying Amazing Race.

I didn’t feel like anything sweet for dinner, so I had half of a plain bagel with spinach artichoke cream cheese and then Craig made pierogis, so I just had a plate of two of those. Brunch really left me full for much of the day.

Better go watch my show and check blogs during commercial breaks!

Not ready for the week to begin again. I feel like I had a productive and nice weekend though spent visiting with family and friends.