Catching up

Oh my. 

Has it really been almost a month?

I'm a bad blogger. 

I hope you'll forgive me, but I've been dealing with non-stop travel, followed by moving halfway across the country, followed by no internet, followed by a crap-tastic internet connection. Comcast, if you're out there reading this, I hate you with the fire of a thousand suns. 

But anyway. I'm back! We're all moved in and officially New Englanders again. And just in time, I tell you. It took forever for the leaves to change this year, thanks to all the rain, but they finally popped last week, and now I'm enjoying the spectacular fall colors in the best possible place on the planet (in my humble opinion.) I meant to get some photos on our grocery store run this afternoon, but I forgot my phone. But I promise, it looks just like this:

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Okay maybe not quite that color-dense. But it's purty out there, believe me.

I'm going to try to catch up little by little, but for now, I'll give you a little photo preview of the past two months, during which I've written maybe one post. (Yikes. Not getting off to a good start in the blogging world).

Here goes:

September wedding

With my momma and sis

Family reunion! 

Country Kensie

Photo shoot in Katama

Classic fall weekend in Western Mass. 

Pumpkin pancakes with New York maple syrup



Life doesn't get much better than this. I'm so happy with the move, with my first week substitute teaching (more on that later!), with our sweet little apartment, with the abundance of fresh local food available here, and with all the extra time I have to experiment with it.

As I write, Alex is hard at work in the kitchen himself, slaving away over a batch of salteñas, which according to Wikipedia are Bolivian baked empanadas, and according to Alex are savory treats fit for the gods. His cousin, who is originally from Bolivia but moved to France after she met and married a Frenchman, is currently talking him through the recipe on Skype from Grenoble. In Spanish. I've got about five different corners of the globe represented in one way or another in my kitchen right now. It's awesome.

On that note, I'll leave you. I need to devote my full attention to their conversation, so to brush up on my Spanish vocab. And I can't do that while typing. Only while pinning. Which is also next on my to do list...

Chau!