Sparkles and Lattes: Friday Favorites and Happenings

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Happy Friday all! I am so looking forward to the long weekend. The last week and a half has kicked my butt. We have some fun and chill things planned this weekend. Just thankful to not be super busy this weekend. I feel like we have been on the go so much lately. What are your weekend plans?

Anyways, onto Friday favorites and Happenings.

ONE. Last weekend I went to a charity event for women and children sex trafficking prevention and awareness. As a whole, we raised $62,000 which far exceeded their goal. And we did it while having a great time. We ate great food, had some drinks, did a silent auction, a ring toss to win wine, a photo booth and danced our butts off.

And then after the event was over, we ubered back to my friends house who lives around the corner from me and we stayed up talking until 2 am. Then I went home. And while I was tired on Super Bowl Sunday, I was NOT hungover and my heart was so happy.

This Rent the Runway dress accented my tattoo of my girls names so perfectly!

TWO. Just two days later was Valentine's Day. I got the girls a few items including some king size Valentine Reese's hearts, a large berry sherbet chapstick (from the dollar spot) and a little stuffed animal. The cat is holding a heart that says puuurfect.

And I got Rory a bottle of bourbon, a card and some andies mints (his favorite).

Rory delivered these beauties to me which smell amazing!!!

For dinner, we made filets (using the reverse sear method), scalloped potatoes and a Caesar salad (dressing which I made from a Pinterest recipe and it was really good).

And then for dessert, we had two that I picked up from a local bakery. One was a lavender, chocolate mousse and a shortbread cookie bottom and the other was rose, vanilla, raspberry and a pistachio cake.

THREE. Wednesday night I went to an event with my cousin. It was put on by the university that we attended and a local winery. We were put into small groups of four, we tried different kinds of wine, and then made our own wine blend.

We tried many different blends and found our one after 7 tries. Well it was #5, but we wanted to keep trying others to make sure it was just right.

Those wines were all judged and the winner's bottle is to be bottled and we all get a bottle in early Spring.

It was a lot of fun. Even though we didn't win, we still had a great time.

During judging, they had a big charcuterie board style snack area which we enjoyed plus a reisling that the winery made for us to try.