A Heck of a Weekend

Sometimes you just need to have a solid weekend. Just the run of the mill fun weekend.

And that is what we had.

Friday night, Husband and I finished the last bit of Grey's Anatomy season 13 which was INTENSE. I think the most nerve wracking episodes I've even seen. They were just, realistically awful, in a way that made them possible. This is why we don't follow the show in real time, too intense to take a week or more between episodes.

Saturday morning brought sleeping in. For me. Let's not get crazy my kids have a healthy does of this disease:

We played outside in the morning and Husband cut the lawn. (We were safely on the porch reading a story and singing some songs when he did the backyard, don't worry!) After a delicious lunch and the reading of some I Spy books it was time to get ready for the birthday party.

We dropped C off and then we headed out for some special two-on-one time with our girl! We first hit the frozen yogurt shop.

She picked cookies and cream flavor with sprinkles, a brownie chunk, some gummy bears and chocolate chips. She loved it. This particular shop has games on all the table and our table had Frozen Trouble. We didn't play but she popped the die and moved the pieces a few times. 

Then we went to the park. Which we absolutely did. But we took the extremely long way and took a 40 minute drive to get there. Part of it on the highway to encourage a little bit of a car nap. It was successful and then we went to play! 

It was a new to us park and it was wonderful. Quiet and beautiful, with brand new equipment and then with some luck we were the only ones there! 

After we picked up C we realized the baseball tickets we had for the night were a lot closer to home plate than we realized, and also that our kids were too overtired, overstimulated etc for such an experience to be any fun at all. So we had a pizza party and watched The Emperor's New Groove. Which was just the ticket. 

Sunday brought an easy morning of cleaning up the playroom and a heavy snack for the kids before Mass. We were hoping it would help the behavior of our resident two-year-old. But she seemed to derive power from it and it was the worst she's been in a while and lost her playground playtime privileges afterwards. That didn't go over well and she went right to bed when we got home and slept for 2.5 hours. 

During that time, the rest of us had lunch and the boys went grocery shopping. They got all the ingredients to make this dip which was just as delicious as Kathryn promised.  Though it really doesn't need the coconut. I love coconut, Husband doesn't and I put it in anyway. But I don't think I would again. 

After some fun play time we went out to a local burger joint for an early dinner then we came home and ate fruit and our dip. It was a party! 

All I was missing was dancing around to this song with a margarita or pina colada drink too, which... hind sight. 

We read some books including some new ones Grandma and Grandpa sent. Husband went and took this picture of us reading a book from the Easter/Spring book basket that is still rocking it in my living room. #reallife I never switched it out for summer books... oops. Then posted it to Instagram without me knwing. But it's cute even if I am wearing a princess crown... because 

I was a pineapple princess like the Annette Funicello song...

Then when it was time for pajamas C put on this little get up which rocked my world. 

His Vikings pajamas with the hat?! I died it was so cute. What a sweet heart. After our kids went to bed we watched two episodes of The Great British Bake Off and loved every second. 

It was everything a weekend should be. I hope yours was as wonderful!