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July 18, 2017

Hey guys! Happy Monday and all that good stuff. I would say my day was fantastic but it was a hot mess that deserves its own post, so let’s recap the weekend, shall we?

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Friday

My Friday was super busy yet super productive. I REALLY didn’t feel like working out but I decided to push through and do it anyway and I’m glad I did. I got in a great walk at the park and felt so energized afterwards.

Good thing I jumped straight into the shower when I got home because little did I know, I was going to be heading right back out the door. My parents called me when I got home from working out and asked if I wanted to go to lunch at our favorite Hawaiian bbq spot. Uh, duh! Of course I want to go!

We had a great time at lunch. My youngest brother even joined us. I took my laptop with me since I was working that day but I managed to have a good time and work at the same time. Not bad for multi-tasking, eh?

My silly parents

Friday evening went slightly downhill when I discovered that a Facebook ad I was working on for a client wasn’t approved and in fact, shut down my entire ad manager account. *face palm and shakes fist at sky* I spent the rest of the evening trying to fix that and submit a ticket to Facebook while watching “Birth of a Nation” with my husband. Have you seen that movie? It was so intense but isn't all of history?

Saturday

This one was my favorite and had a basement.

I guess we were all worn out from the week because everyone slept in until almost 10am. My little one woke up at 4am (!) for some milk and went back to sleep. I managed to roll out of bed about 9 when he smacked me in the face so it was time to get up. I wrote out an entire to-do list of errands only to get sidetracked when we found out that my in-laws were in town for an impromptu visit.

They are relocating here so we were helping them find an apartment or house to rent for the next year. By the time we looked up, it was evening and the day was over. I did manage to discover a few new houses for sale in my subdivision and fell in love with this one because of the basement. Le sigh. We aren’t buying a new house for least 3 years so I can let that go for now.

Sunday

Sunday was a relaxing day. We all slept in and I even managed to cook breakfast. My oldest kiddo had swim practice at 1 so I didn’t plan for much during the day. Hubby wanted to check out the new Planet of the Apes movie so we headed there after swim practice. How amazing is the instructors farm where the swim center is located? Crazy right?

Another successful swim practice with my little fish

The swim center

The owner owns this amazing farm that that center is located at.

Check out all that land.

Other than that, my weekend was spent rearranging plans and not getting much done but sometimes those are the best ones, right?

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July 10, 2017

Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of Weekend in Review! Ok, that was corny but whatever. So, it’s Monday and you know I have talk about my weekend because I live a fabulously exciting life (not really). Here’s what happened with me:

Thursday

I guess you could say my weekend really started on Thursday since I worked from home on Friday. I left work feeling pretty good since we had plans and tickets for an early screening to see Spiderman: Homecoming. I have not written my review for this movie yet, but I will say that it is the BEST Spiderman movie to date for so many reason. My son has been dying to see this movie for months so when early tickets came available, I hopped on them and almost bought an entire row. Naturally, his BFF Ryland was there and they had a great time. We also struggled Friday morning because we didn’t get out of the movie until after midnight but it was worth it, just seeing the joy on his face.

The kiddo and his BFF

Friday

My dip ingredients

After struggling to get up Friday morning, I was out the door early getting the kids off to daycare so that I could get a mile in at the park before my meeting. After finishing my quick walk, I made it home just in time for my meeting only to discover that it was cancelled. I knocked out some other work before a discovery call with a potential new client – which went really well. Since Hubby was home on Friday as well, we both worked and talked about how we’re going to take over the world before picking up the boys late that afternoon. I also made a bomb spinach and artichoke dip that I will share the recipe for later. Unfortunately, my husband threw his back out before I was heading out to my friend Kat’s house to help setup for her daughter’s birthday party the next day. Once he was settled, the boys and I set up to Kat’s for party prepping.

While the kids entertained themselves, Kat, her mom and I got to work on party stuff. We blew up balloons (30!), baked cookies and made goodie bags. The highlight of the evening were the #strugglecookies LOL. So, the party was a PJ Mask theme, with Owlette being the main character. Kat has this fantastic idea of baking Owlette shaped cookies with red icing. Perfect! The cookies were perfect but the icing process was a debacle. I wish I would have blamed it on wine but nah, it just sucked! Those cookies started out ok and went downhill from there. It got to a point where I was breaking them and trying to “ice” them back together. By the time it was all said and done, there was NO WAY we were going to serve them the next day. Needless to say, I ate about 5 of them on my way home. They tasted great but looked a hot mess LOL

The struggle cookies. I'll stick to cakes and pies.

After getting the kids home and in bed, I passed out shortly after making pasta salad and baked beans for the party.

Saturday

I was up bright and early so that I could my beans into the oven and finish the pasta. I think I’m ok cook but, I can cook the heck of baked beans and Greek pasta salad. So much I impress myself! After hubby left for his shoot, I cleaned the house and got the boys and I ready for the party. We actually left two hours ahead of time since I needed to pick up face paint and some racks and were right on schedule until we hit epic schedule traffic coming through downtown. But we still made it there and had a blast. I even did face painting and the kids loved it! Note to self: be prepared to paint faces ALL day. These girls had their demands on designs but most settled for ladybugs. The most unique one all day were the cupcakes.

I did pretty good with the lady bugs.

After leaving the party, my kids were still amped up and excited but I knew as soon as they got baths, eat and were put in the bed, they would pass out and lo behold, it happened just that way. I managed to stay up for a few more hours before finally passing out around 1am.

Sunday

I had no intention of getting up early but I was up by 7:30 and spent that time cleaning the kitchen and cooking a big breakfast for the family. We pretty much spent the day lounging around until I took my oldest to swim practice. He did such a fantastic job at swim practice. I’ve had him in the water since he was about 10 months old, as a matter of fact, we spend every birthday of his at the pool. I’ve also been teaching him to swim over the years so that teacher was pretty impressed by his lack of fear of the water. He did such a great job that he was diving for rings and managed to get two on his own. So proud of that kid!

My little fish!

After class he asked for chili so off to Wendy’s we went. We came home, showered and lounged the rest of the day. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, in my house took a nap around 3pm. I didn’t wake up until 6 and I have no idea when the boys woke up. Either way, the rest of the day has been spent watching movies and writing.

How was your weekend?

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