Seeping into fall

Joshua has had to work at least 1 night shift a week (as in until 11pm) which gets pretty lonely.
Luckily I've had amazing friends ask me to do things at the exact right moments that I haven't had to spend many alone. I've painted walls, made cookies with friends, grabbed coffees, and the other night my friend and I hade Monday mimosas and made 2 huge batches of homeade cheese its :).
Except one night when I was left alone I bought a sweater online, haha oops.

photos from Camila's phone

Other than filling in my weekdays without hubs with lovely friends we haven't been up to too much this past few weeks. This weekend we saw Head & the Heart Concert at a really pretty theater, Paramount, had a birthday dinner for a friend, and layed around all morning listening to Lord of the Rings on tape, walked along the driftwood beach in the early afternoon.

 Very full of life but also very slow past few weeks which have been very rejuvinating, except now we're both getting sick.

So excited for all the feelings of fall flying around, some leaves are changing,

most are pine trees though haha.

Stoked to wear my new sweater :)

Just a few pictures of what we've been up to, sorry left the camera behind for concert & dinner:

Sherman, the mini crab we found

So much baking weekend

This weekend we played it cool:

went to a co-worker's baby shower,

Enjoyed the little bits of sunshine by walking around
the lake Saturday & Sunday with lattes, 

 

snuggled on the couch to movies and a new favorite drink of ours:

 (gin, clementine sparkling juice, sqeeze of lemon, topped off with a few berries dropped in)

made vietnamese coffee ice cream

slowly walked through the farmer's market picking up goodies here and there,

 cleaning the apartment,

making a canopy- hubs calls it a mobile, for over our bed,

and doing lots and lots and lots of baking.

For the baby shower I was in charge of providing the treats. I made Nutella stuffed brioche buns (I had to make 2 batches because I can't count! SO now I have oodles of dough, bummer I'll have to make us some cinnamon rolls :)  &  chocolate caramel cupcakes

it took all morning but it was so worth it the baby shower was so special.

Nutella stuffed Brioche buns:

Brioche dough: recipe from Flour
4 1/2 cups flour
3 1/4 tsp active dry yeast
1/3 cup + 1 tbs sugar
1 tbs salt
5 eggs +1 for brushing on dough
1 cup + 6 tbs butter, room temp, cut into tbs
nutella

1   fit mixer with dough hook
2   mix flour, yeast, sugar, salt, water, the 5 eggs, beat on low for 2-3 minutes
3   scrape down the sides, then beat for another 2-3 minutes
4   on low add the butter in 1 piece at a time until it is incorporated fully into the dough
5   scrape down the sides and then mix for another 10 mintues
6   once it is all incorporated, turn up the speed to medium, and beat another 15 minutes
7   once it starts to slap in the bowl turn it up to medium-high for 1 minute
8   spray olive oil in a bowl and place the dough inside and cover with
     plastic wrap, with plastic wrap touching the dough, place in refrigerator-
     for 6 hours or overnight
9   pull out of refrigerator and roll out dough into 1 1/2" diameter balls

10 then smash each one flat with your hands and plop a nice size tablespoon of nutella in the center

11 then fold up the dough on all 4 sides and pinch them together
12 drop each stuffed ball into a greased muffin tin slot

13 bake for 25-30 minutes, until golden brown on top, don't burn the bottoms

14 let cool completly before you store them.

I made cupcakes based off of this cake recipe I made, except I used This cake recipe because she's pregnant (so no espresso)

I also made more loaves of this heavenly wheat bread to make our sandwiches out of this week!

Even though I tore through our kitchen this weekend I have to admit the thought of those cinnamon rolls is going to pull me back in here soon. Ah baking, I do love you.