On the water weekend

Hello Tuesday.  Now even though once again last night I somewhat got consumed by yet another episode of  "The Following" (more on that here). Then the little excursion to my little bros house.  That little excursion though will be bringing some huge news to our family.  Hold on to your britches, send some well wishes/prayers our way that this news does not fall thru.  Seriously just want to scream it out on here, argh. Patience.  

Alrighty let's just get to the point of this whole wonderful little blog post I got going on here.  Which would be the weekend.  Saturday morning marked the first "official" (this really means no more skipping, get your butt in gear) day for my half marathon training.

 

Breakfast of champs right there(english muffin with peanut butter and mommie's homemade jam).  And me looking all nice and fresh pre 7 mile run.  Sorry folks no after picture...no one wants to see that.  If you do..no words.

 

Since kicking my own butt once is never enough...bring on the kayak.  Perfect day to take the steppie out in the kayak.  And do some....

 

Our end destination today again was my little bro's house on the river.  We actually had a mission.  Pick some mulberries for pie.

Sorry didn't get a picture of the glorious pie. Getting the stems off of these things is definetly a challenge.  Here is what your feet end up looking like to after. 

Purple feeters

 

After running, kayaking, baking...it was off to visit a friend of mine(BJ) at his parent's house for a little BBQ.  Sorry for the lack of pictures here.  Feel a little awkward taking tons of pictures around new people.  BJ's parents have a house on the lake.  Oh my goodness it was beautiful.  His parents are absolutely wonderful.  One of the things that completely amazed me about their house was when they built they had to take down some old oak(I think) trees.   They repurposed them into the floors in the house.  Love that.

 

Now yet another reason I completely fell in love with his mom. Her totally rocking out the whole let's go boating theme.  She had a basket with a captains hat and a crazy catfish.  This accompanies them everytime they go on the boat.  Amazeballs.  Confirmation that I am not the only crazy person who loves to do stuff like that.  Now some moments....

Hubbie and me

BJ, the actual captain, and me...check out the crazy catfish.

 

Way up in that tree was a bald eagles nest.  No one was home today though.

Ended our Saturday with fireworks (that we got to watch from the boat).  Thank you BJ and your amazing family for a wonderful day and making us feel so welcome.

 

Now Sunday, was the standard do the house stuff kind of day...boring.  After my steppie received some sad news. The little bro decided she need to let loose for a bit.Thank you little bro (we think) for such a great idea.

 

Oh how I love summer weekends.  Family , friends, food, and fun times.

  

 

And then it was Monday...

Of course my intention on Monday is always to reflect back on our living like rockstar weekends.  Play hard or go home...or go to work.  Going to work on Monday is the forced regroup. I guess everyone needs a guaranteed break from all the fun.  Anyways, that little weekend show summary will not be happenening at the moment due to living it up until the very end this weekend.  So my pretties you will need to wait until tomorrow.

I will let you in on what caused part of this little delay. A tv show.  Yep. Instead of going thru my pictures from our little weekend show I was watching TV.  This is not a common occurence by any means.  How did this happen.  A morning show, Elvis Duran, kept talking about this show called "The Following".  After hearing them talk it up for so long, I discovered that they were going to reair the show over the summer.  Awesome.  Hook me up, I am in.  First episode I watched.  Fantastic. 

Here is the trailer, FYI it seriously is INTENSE:


Oh and on my first episode of the show, I only screamed once.   Completely blaming that on the little chiweenie starting to bark and the  very instant someone jumped out during the show.  So for now...peace out my peeps until tomorrow.

Firecrackin' Fourth

With the little title here you would think that there would be tons of fire crackers mentioned in this post.  For it being the Fourth of July there was no fireworks, yet.   Key word, yet.  In a moment of wisdom I thought it woud be a good idea to work July 5th.  So while other people where lighting things up, this girl was catching her zzz's.  Sorry to disappoint.  We did get our celebration on though with some fantastic family time.

Does the world appear more interesting this way?

 

 

 

 

Two of my peeps getting in the water and then....

Like a cat...nope not going in.  Not even my itty bitty little toes.   He did find his courage later and went in.

Really you can't get more cooler then this

We demolished our beach lunch.  Sun, Water, and Fun equals hungry peeps.

Back to the water...hubbie and steppie.  Way out there.  This chicken was not gong in that far.  Don't judge the water was cold.

And a fantastic finish to the day...bike ride to the wonderful Ice Cream Station with the steppie.

 

 

Thanks to the little bro for a great idea on the Beach Day.  Hope everyone had a wonderful Fourth

 

Dawn Marie

 

 

 

 

 

 

Craptastical

Well now this post is late...been sitting in the drafts.  Sometimes you just need to step back and .       Since things are all aired out now, here we go.

Craptastical.   Pretty much sums up a  few days and just my overall feeling in general.  Bad news out of the hubbies work.  Followed with a filling coming loose (completely my fault, teeth are not tools, do not use them to pry open a water bottle top, Whoops). Then just the standard little irrelevant things that would be overlooked on a normal day except when added on the top of a few major things.  Feeling like the direction things were going is eerily like the past.  Grab all that mold it into one ball and it basically wore me down to the craptastical day(s).

Now when things go south, you have no other option but too... 

Master plan was put in place so we may persevere thru the bad news from the hubbie's work. A portion of this plan may end up a blog entry in itself.  Will definetly be a test in our household. Yes let the suspense kill you.  Tooth fix, dentist called.  Easy.   Big things out of the way.

 

Sunshine to my day.

When one is having a craptastical day even the littlest thing seems like such a chore.  I have been on a quest for some curtians.  Target limited stock.  Have to go.  Suck it up buttercup and off I go.  There also was a half off deal at Starbucks for these refersh things I wanted to try.  Starbucks in Target. Both had to make it a little better. Sucking it up. Big girl panties on. In my lateness getting off of work, got to Starbucks just after it ended.  Bummed. Still staying with the plan and getting one anyways. Then the wonderful lady said even though it was after five she would give me the half off. (I didn't even ask) Thank you...this little act meant the world at that moment. 

Even managed to get the last curtain panel I needed for our future living room redo.  This was an exciting moment.   For a moment I thought I was going to have to try and figure out what or how to hang just one panel on the window.

Due to Smirnoff taking away my favorite Cranberry-Lime summer beverage of choice.  Yes, everything that I love seems to get discontinued. Seriously. Now from various sources, heard about the Straw-ber-rita budweiser margarita thing. Put that on my try list.  Hubbie happened to find a "single" serving size aka a very large single can versus a 12 pack to try.  So bam got try that upon my arrival coming home.  And my hubbie was there...the one I fell in love with. 

 

Watery Weekend

I love my kids, I love my kids, I love my kids...but YES, they were gone. Both of them at the same time to the other parent's house for a Friday evening.  Been awhile since this happened.  Opportunity knocked for a surprise at home date/adult time.  Plan: Starbucks Refreshers, movie and my popcorn. Of course the intent was to surprise the hubbie with the whole plan.  Couldn't keep the Starbucks Refresher quiet though.  He knew by the time I got to Starbucks. Those Referesher things are amazing.  They were doing a half off deal between 3 and 5. Just couldn't pass up that excuse to try something new. Ok, back on track here. My famous popcorn. Hubbie loves.  This really maybe one of the reasons why he married me and stays married to me. Anywho, we ate two whole bowls during the movie.  Sorry no pictures. Movie was: "Warm Bodies". Ha, told the hubbie it was a romantic <pause> comedy. Really not the whole mushy love story kind of girl over her. Sad to report the movie was pretty bad.  What we learn about zombies in this movie is that they really just need a hug.

Love brings them back to life..what?!?  IF the zombie apocalypse happens though, this girl is not going to be trying it out.  I will be praying that my endurance pays off and run the other way, quickly.

Rain, Rain go away. The next day/morning our original date just didn't work out. Raining equals not a good day for kayaking in my books. No paddle the marsh event for us. According to the event organizers facebook feed approximately 130 brave souls faced the weather.  We little chickens opted to reschedule something until Sunday.

Now aside from us just trying to get some adult time in, Friday and Saturday brought a few other notable items.   My shutterfly album of our "honeymoon" in Colorado.

Seriously good things come in little orange packages.

 

My teenager and his temps.  WHAT?!?! Hold tight people I am sure that there will be some drop dead exciting stories coming out of me placing my life in the hands of my teeanger.

 

 

Then Finally, sunshine on Sunday.  Hubbie and I opted to kayak down the river to the little brothers house. It would be his first time in my old Kayak (and second time kayaking).  I would be testing out my new kayak.  Enjoy the snippets from our adventure.

 

Oh yeah he has now nicknamed the kayak the green pickle.

Turtles on the log...

 

Floating down the river...

My brand new pretty pink kayak ...  love

The welcoming crew...little bro with my two adorable nephews

 

 

And we made it to shore....

 

Nephews time for a ride....

 

Beautiful day, awesome weekend.  And now it is off to work we go.