Five for Friday

Hello and welcome to my Five for Friday! Today I am linking up with Andrea!

1. It's been a while since I've done a Five for Friday post. I've wanted to write one for a while but I never had enough stuff to include in a post; but now that I'm writing this I'm coming up with lots of stuff to share! Anyways, I've just picked a few highlights...like these beautiful flowers my mom got me for my birthday last month!

2. We had a really nice Christmas.  We opened presents in the morning (yes, we did put on the Arendelle fireplace on Disney+!), I made cinnamon rolls, and we spent the day lounging around and watching The Mandalorian. It was the second time watching through for my sister and I but the first time for the rest of the family.

For dinner we tried to make it easy and just did a couple of roast chickens, twice baked potatoes, cranberry sauce, steamed carrots, and garlic bread. It was nice to not spend all day in the kitchen cooking dinner! I wish I had gotten a picture of our dinner because it turned out really good! How was your Christmas?

3. The Norfolk Botanical Garden had a drive through lights exhibit so we visited after Christmas and it was pretty fun! The drive was only a mile but it ended up taking almost an hour to get through. The lights were so fun and and we enjoyed the different themes they had set up. We really enjoyed it! 

4. I was at Target yesterday and found these cute storybooks (5 Minute Princess Stories and 5 Minute Frozen Stories.) in the clearance section for only $3.98 each! They're showing either full price or a different discount price online, but if you check them on the price scanner in store they are 70% off. 

I also got the 5 Minute Marvel stories as well. There were plenty other 5 Minute story books, but not all of them were the clearance price.

I don't have kids but I do babysit/nanny occasionally and like being able to bring books with me. The illustrations in these books are really great and would definitely recommend checking them out the next time you're at Target! 

5. In case you missed it, on Monday I shared a Currently post and then on Wednesday I shared our hike to Catawba Falls!

Did you have a nice Christmas and New Years?

Hope you have a great weekend!

Catawba Falls Hike

The last hike we went on in the Asheville area was the Catawba Falls hike. It's outside of Asheville a little ways, but was along our route to start heading back to Virginia. 

The hike was only a couple of miles and fairly easy, with the last little bit being a bit more difficult depending on where exactly you wanted to go. The closer you get to the falls the more rocks and logs you have to climb over and maneuver around. There was also a trail that went up alongside the waterfall that looked rather difficult to get up.

Also, with the humidity being close to 100% and being near the falls, everything was wet so we knew we needed to be extra careful to not slip on any rocks or anything. Just to get the pictures I did get of the falls I had to climb out over some rocks and a log.

1920's hydroelectric powerhouse

I'm glad we went on this hike as Catawba falls was really beautiful!

Do you enjoy hiking?

Currently

Hi! It's been a while since I've really posted regularly, but that is going to change because I have lots of things to share! I think I'm finally in a place where I have some consistent content to share so I'm working on that!

Working on - Putting together lots of blog posts! I have quite a few things to share so it's nice to finally be able to start checking stuff off of my to-do list! And to start blogging again!

Watching - There hasn't been a lot of new shows on over the last few weeks with Christmas, but during Christmas break my family binge watched all of The Mandalorian. My sister and I watched it as it was released, so it was the second time watching for us, but the rest of my family hadn't seen it and we all really enjoyed it! If you haven't watched it yet, I highly recommend it!

My sister is a big fan of The Child (also known as "baby Yoda". I won't spoil it by telling you his real name!) But if anything, watch The Mandalorain for him!

Reading - I read 84 books in 2020! Although it's been a little while since I read anything worth recommending. Lately everything I've read has been kind of mediocre. I've been thinking about writing a post on my favorite reads from the past year.

Listening to - I'll have to do post about all the podcasts I listen to because I listen to quite a few, but a few recent ones I've listened to are season two of Dr. Death and Do No Harm by NBC. Both were very interesting. 

Starting - On Photo A Day for 2021. I gave up on it last year, but I'd like to start doing it again this year.

Playing - My Nintendo Switch! I got one for my birthday last month and it's been really fun to have a game system of my own. We've always had Nintendo systems in our house, but both of the recent systems (Switch and Wii U) were technically my sister's (although we played them together.) So it really is nice to have a system of my own!

I got the Switch that came with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and then my sister got me Super Mario Bros U for Christmas and my parents got me Zelda Breath of the Wild,so I've been playing all of those games!

Finishing - I've been finishing up my to-do list. Not very exciting for anyone else, but I've been able to check off quite a few things and it always feels really nice to be able to do that!

How have you been lately? What have you been doing currently? Are you starting anything new in 2021? Let me know in the comments!