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Happy Monday, darlings! How were your Halloween weekends? Full of mischief and tom foolery? Good, good, that’s what we like to hear. Ours were spent in San Diego (Stephy) and Solvang (Karrie), an achingly sweet little Santa Barbara-area wine town, and the location of a Halloween wedding on Saturday. So many fun moments over the weekend:

STEPH:

Dog Beach | Covet Living

{Steph & Gus kickin’ it at their favorite place in San Diego – the Coronado dog beach}

GusGus | Covet Living

{Steph giving Gus a bath – or is it the other way around?}

Saturday Funday | Covet Living

{Saturday funday at Lahaina’s}

Decor | Covet Living

{Steph’s roommates helping “decorate”}

Dinner at Ironside | Covet Living

{Dinner with friends at Ironside}

Sigh... the beach | Covet Living

{The San Diego sunset… which never, ever gets old}

Beachside dinner | Covet Living

{Sunday dinner at her bosom buddy Natalie’s}

KARRIE:

Solvang | Covet Living

{Strolling through the picturesque town of Solvang}

Solvang | Covet Living

Wine Valley Inn | Solvang | Covet Living

{The adorable Wine Valley Inn in Solvang}

Wine Valley Inn | Solvang | Covet Living

{Hansel and Gretel might as well live here}

Wine Valley Inn | Solvang | covet Living

{Solvang Bakery, the sweetest little bakery you ever did see}

Hitching Post | Solvang | Covet Living

{Dinner at the Hitching Post, where Maya from Sideways worked}

My husband the devil | Covet Living

{Karrie’s hubby Tim aka TEEM aka one handsome devil}

Masquerade Party | Covet Living

{Karrie and Teem at at a Masquerade pre-wedding shindig the night before}

xoxo,

Steph and Karrie's Signatures TOGETHER

As a card-carrying, omg-i’m-still-devastated-they’re-really-over child of the 80’s, I keep their soundtrack on a pretty heavy rotation… in all its blue collar, jorts-tastic glory. Maybe it’s because all of that music reminds me of being a kid in our happy little working-man’s hometown (?)

Our Hometown | Covet Living

When Karrie and I were in Palm Springs this Memorial Day, we had the Steve Winwood Pandora station blaring at the pool all weekend and it was GLORIOUS. Anyhow… “Roll with It” came on my Spotify the other day, and I got so stoked that I sought out all the long-lost “OMG I **LOVE** THIS SONG” songs on this list. They’re like the cousins of the more mainstream ones I usually listen to, and there are several in this bunch I’m not sure that I’ve heard – oh – since I looked like this… circa no teeth and giant underpants.

80's leotards | covet living

And since my cousins and my cousins’ hair looked like this.

80's hair

And since my Mom (on the left) and Aunt Lou were getting jiggy on the weekends.

mom and lou

This mix reminds me of everything in tawny shades of orange and mossy green… of sifting through my mom’s jewelry box which I thought was like One-Eyed Willie’s treasure chest… of every family cookout with potato salads and burgers on the grill… of the sound of my relatives’ cackling with deep-throated smokers coughs… and dirty, grubby hands of happy heathen children running around the yard catching lightning bugs. In jellies.

Be honest. When was the last time you thought about Glenn Frey? Or listened to anything from the Beaches soundtrack? …you’re welcome. Link to Spotify playlist is HERE.