Weekend Update

Caution- Mostly for journaling purposes. This post may bore you to tears.

The Weekend Festivities:

1) an 8 mile run on the Bentonville Trail with Kasey, Tia, and Jocelyn (thanks Mom and Dad for watching Corbin and Quin). It was gross hot and muggy. I usually only drink water during and after a run, but on Friday I was screaming, "Thank you for existing" to the Gatorade gods.

2) Lunch at Atlanta Bread Company (ok I might have squeezed a shower and primping in somewhere between these two)

3) I'm not gonna lie. I'm a prize monger and I love me some presents. I opened some beautiful cards, melamine mixing bowls bowls (love), a lil' goodie bag with kitchen gadgets and other personalized items, a 24 inch clock, garden seeds (that I need to plant, like yesterday!) milk bottles (I've always loved and collected them, but lately I am becoming a bit obsessed), a little shopping lettuce that went toward a couple more robins egg blue mix n match dessert plates (another recent obsession...can a girl have too many dishes? no. no, she cannot. not this girl anyway. More dessert plates means more dessert!) and speaking of dessert....

4) a FAB steak dinner grilled by the BBQ master Hal, followed by a homemade NY cheesecake. Heaven. Leftovers for breakfast tomorrow? absolutely.

5) Friday evening and Saturday were spent at an SSD crop with my Mom and gal pals where I made some really cute stuff that I'll post pics of later. FUN times! I returned home to an actual GATE with HARDWARE on my fence, a trellis in our brambles patch, and a freshly mowed lawn. I kinda sorta actually have a yard. woot!

6) Saturday lunch at Marias (which included a Dr. Pepper....WOW, I should NOT drink caffeine. ever. I laughed involuntarily to the point of tears in the hours that followed. But, I guess if you're going to do something involuntarily, I choose laughing over any other spastic bodily function...I'm sure those will come in later birthdays)

7) I also came home to voicemails! Yay! Ever feel like your phone is a mailbox and all you're getting is junk mail? All business/To Do List phone calls and no just-for-fun calls? I've felt that way since September. It was awesome to just chat with friends for no purpose other than conversation. Thanks for the phone calls and b-day wishes!

By the way, some of you reeeeaallly shouldn't sing ;) (cough, Fonzo.)

8) I spent a good half hour on the phone with Reese on Saturday, trying to convince her to get dressed for her Tball game. Oh yeah, the novelty of tball wore off after practice numero uno. She totally hates it. We'd let her quit, but feel like it's good for her to do something she doesn't love. And according to Aaron, "Tball is good for her. It will make her a team player" and "She isn't going to learn how to share by playing Checkers"---is my new favorite Aaron line. Several bribes and one "broken heart" later, (yes, she actually told me that daddy broke her heart by making her get dressed in her uniform. oh the drama...I love that girl) they went to the game and she fun...or at least enough fun to get her bribe. Aaron might have to wait until Q or the Cheeto are interested in tball before we sign anyone up again. Poor Reese just isn't into it.

9) Corbin got a wicked sunburn at the game. He also got two more teeth through on the top. He's finally crawling like a normal baby, and phasing out the little inchworm/froggy crawl that he did for months. I miss having a little bunny hop around the living room, but am proud of him for figuring out the hand-over-hand coordination.

10) Quincy is still talking non-stop about Disneyworld, has kept pants on for 2 days straight, and has figured out how to make Reese absolutely LIVID, just by looking at her a certain way. It's awesome.

Magic Kingdom/Florida post and so-many-pictures-you'll-avoid-my-blog-for-a-month coming very soon.

Thanks to all who made my day a special one! I'm overwhelmed with love and gratitude for the great people in my life.