good for the soul

Even though Saturday was a working one, this weekend has been great so far.

On Friday night, we went to dinner with E&R to Oxheart, a new-ish restaurant we've been wanting to check out. They love it and now, so do we!

While we see them almost everyday in practice, having time to chat and catch up and plan is so so nice. I can't imagine our lives without them.

We have another friend, S, who just opened her own yoga studio. And we are so happy for her and our yoga community in general. Houston is such a big city and now we actually have different choices for places to practice ashtanga? Yes, please!

Do not try this at home without adult supervision. 

Our yoga has brought such a diverse group of people together...and I wouldn't have it any other way. 

weekend lens | a quiet one

We had a pretty uneventful weekend, spent mostly at home, which is what I like to do.

Saturday night dinner at Radical Eats was our highlight - love the vegan Mexican food! And their chipotle chocolate cake :)

Look closely at this photo; do you see it?

Joe's been busy studying for a Cisco test, which is the main reason we've been laying low. So left to my own devices, I have been working on outfits for Burning Man. Much more on that to come later!

Although Monday is here again, this week will be short for us (summer vacation, part 3 coming up!), so it's all good.

out of practice

The funny thing, for me, about writing and blog-writing in particular, is that once the words stop, they become hard to re-discover. So this week my goal is to write more - nothing specific, maybe just how our days have been - just to exercise those writing muscles again.

We had a pretty quiet weekend.

Spent some good time with Mommy.

Finally found a good spot to take sunset silhouette photos.

Got my hair did!

Had fun with a "photo booth."

Practiced yoga.

Ate some tasty breakfast tacos.

As always, the weekend went by much too fast! Happy Monday :)

weekend lens | Open your heart

The weekend started off with more wine than usual, but we needed it. Too bad the Wine by Joe was only ok.

On Saturday we met S,P&T for dinner at Indika, a nearby Indian fusion restaurant. The food was better than I remember,which is always a good thing.

Later that evening we found ourselves at our yearly visit to SoBe, for Madonnarama. All Madonna, all night. Yes, please. And no, we did not stay until 5AM (those days are LONG over!).

I am not sure why S&I haven't been friends from before. I've known who she was for a long time but we have only started hanging out this last year. Besides the fact that she is drop-dead gorgeous, she's smart, funny and loves to dance. What's not to love!

Today I spent some time with some other girlfriends at the Earth Day festival by my place.


top&pants: Gap / shoes: Urban Outfitters / earrings: Francesca's / bangles: Loft / bag: MarcJacobs
I actually danced in these platforms all evening on Saturday night and my feet weren't completely shot afterwards. That's a plus!

weekend lens | B-cycling

I am a serious creature of habit and as much as I love traveling, I hate how it throws a wrench in my routine. This weekend we were supposed to go to Austin, but opted to stay home instead, which was a good decision, in my book.

We did try something new. A good friend of Joe's is in charge of a new bike program around town called B cycle, where you can basically borrow a bike for an hour or more and ride it around the city.

We rode around town for about 2.5 hours, including stops to

...eat dinner

...check out some blue trees :)

All of this done in Lululemon, of course!

weekend lens | a little bit of this, a little bit of that

This weekend we...

...celebrated a birthday (with a boy who only turned 29. Sigh. To be 29 again...)

...checked out a new ramen place.

...wore coordinating tennies.

...rode public transportation.

...enjoyed a post-yoga coco.

...learned how to play bocci ball.

weekend lens | happy days

My youngest nephew turned two this weekend. Two!

As usual, my sister went all out with cake, decorations, party activities as well as favors.

This cardboard train would have been a perfect backdrop for a kiddo photo but they destroyed it before it could happen. Hard to tell 2- and 3-year-olds what to do :)

For St. Paddy's day brunch we went to our favorite place, Radical Eats.

It's a hole-in-the-wall restaurant, but their food and drink are delicious.

And finished the day with some packing for our upcoming ski trip. Can I tell you how hard it is to pack for skiing when the temperatures are in the 80s outside?

weekend lens | springing forward

Things have been quiet this year in the K household, but I don't mind so much. I like to think of myself as a homebody-who-enjoys-the-little-things-in-life.

On Friday night we ate a giant pizza (and some apps) with S&H. This is our 3rd dinner with them this year; I'm thinking we're making it a monthly event :)

The Houston Rodeo is going on right now. We go every few years, but it's not really my cup of tea. So this is about as close as I am going to get to it!

Dinner on Saturday was at Radical Eats, a delicious vegetarian Mexican place. I had a spinach and corn as well as butternut squash tamale. Yums!

Today was a productive-get-stuff-done-around-the-house kind of day. Waking up was a bit more difficult - the sky was darker than normal this morning!

We finally hung up a piece of art created by JJ. Love the color! (I also cleaned out the closet, but that's a story for another post.)

As a reward for cleaning the closet I made another mess (which I eventually cleaned up as well).

Sunday dinner was cooked at home: tofu veggie pad thai with kale and beet salad. Definitely thought the food was picture-worthy.

Enjoyed another sunset with the hubs. Working is not always fun but it makes the weekends all that much sweeter.

working wardrobe | what happened to the weekend?

top: Anthro / cardi: Target / skirt: Uniqlo / shoes: Jeffrey Campbell / sunnies: Dsquared / necklace: gift'd
This weekend went by in a whirlwind of activity and I could use another weekend to recover! Fortunately the work week will be shorter (unfortunately Friday is a work day for me, but I don't think we'll be super busy). I'm looking forward to spending some QT with the fam :)


We gave one of our friends a GC to the Apple store for his bday and he finally bought his new iPhone 5. I love the panoramic function on its camera - so fun!

weekend update | hammer time

We had some out-of-town guests this weekend. Joe worked with J way back when and J&A actually got married the same year we did. They have 2 beautiful little girls and not much time for themselves so we were lucky to be able to spend some time with them over the weekend.


Much of the weekend was spent practicing yoga as well as buying cute yoga clothes, eating, catching up and the boys finished a triathlon in Galveston (the hubs finished 2nd in his age group!). I could use more weekends like this!

weekend update | on the lake

We took a quick trip up to Lake Livingston with some friends over the weekend.


The drive up is actually fairly scenic for Texas.


We stayed at our friend EJ's lake house.


Being in the water is a great way to escape the summer heat.


Good food and good friends are always a great way to spend the weekend.


A storm blew through on Saturday night with 70mph winds. Unfortunately one of EJ's friends boats and jet skis got destroyed because of the storm. Fortunately he had insurance to cover it. Which makes me glad to know generous friends who own lake houses but not to own one myself - they are a lot of work!