Summer Lovin'

Top: Hubby and I in the pool. (Can't believe I'm posting a
picture of myself in my bathing suit!) Bottom: Hubby tipping
 his brother off the floating chair and into the pool.

We finally got some summer weather here in Halifax! The past four days have been absolutely gorgeous. (Almost too hot, though I hate to say that after all the rain we had in June!) We spent three of the past four evenings relaxing in the pool or on the deck at my parents' place. Today my husband's two younger brothers came and joined us. The three of them were just like big kids playing around and splashing in the pool. Daisy came too and splashed around in her kiddie pool and relaxed in the shade. It was so nice to actually spend some time outside in the sunshine.

We're heading to Prince Edward Island this coming weekend to visit hubby's brother and his wife. They're in the process of adopting two children from Africa and there's a chance that they'll be heading over there before the end of the summer so we want to make sure we spend a little time with them before they go. They're two of the loveliest people I know and we always have a great time when we get together. I'm really looking forward to a weekend away too.

Weekend Update

I work in retail (well, in a grocery store, which I consider retail but my husband disagrees with me every time I say that I work in retail) so weekends don't really mean a whole lot.

On Saturday I worked 8 to 5. When I started telling people about my transfer the first thing they said to me was, "You have to try the peanut butter burger at Darrell's." Darrell's is right next door to my store and has won all kinds of awards for their hamburgers. Still, the idea of peanut butter on my hamburger bun weirded me out a little bit. I decided to go for it on Saturday though, and am I ever glad I did! If you've never had peanut butter on your hamburger I recommend trying it! I know it sounds crazy, but it's totally delicious.

I spent most of Saturday evening in the kitchen. We were having a potluck lunch at church on Sunday so I made sweet and sour meatballs (super easy and tasty) and a hamburger pasta dish. I also baked cupcakes. I was feeling lazy, so I just used a cake mix and Duncan Hines Frosting Creations. (Seriously cool - you buy the tub of frosting and a little flavour packet. I bought mint chocolate to go with my chocolate cupcakes.)

On Sunday we were at the church from 9:30am to almost 4pm. Such a long day. It was good, but so long. We had a guest preacher so we did a morning and afternoon service (instead of morning and evening) with the potluck in between. There was so much food! I felt like I was going to explode - but it was worth it. (This is my plate - my husband's was twice as full!)

Daisy was super excited to see us when we got home. She gets so lonely. Since it was actually a super nice day (first one this spring I think) we decided to take her out for a nice long walk. We took her to one of our favourite parks and walked around the lake. It was gorgeous. We ended the night with a fire in our backyard fire pit. We even roasted hot dogs for supper.

Hope you all had a great weekend too!

My weekend recap

So, I'm a day late, but I actually had a pretty great weekend.

Friday night Jonathan and I decided we needed a date night. My new job is still going well, but I'm exhausted at the end of every day. (Not so much physically as mentally.) We got some gift cards for Christmas for restaurants and the movies so the plan was to head to Boston Pizza and then up to the movie theatre to see either Oz or Identity Thief. Unfortunately we only made it to dinner. By the time I got home from work, and got ready it was later than we thought it would be. And of course there was a wait at BP. So by the time we finished eating we would have had to see a late movie and I still had to get up and work on Saturday. Even though we didn't get to the movie it was still nice to get out and relax over a meal that someone else prepared and cleaned up.

Saturday was a pretty steady day at work. I'm still trying to make things my own, plus do all the day to day stuff, so time is flying. We had signed up to play floor hockey at the church Saturday nights but missed the first two weeks. Jonathan was really looking forward to going this week, but truthfully I was dreading it. Driving home in the car I ran through all of the excuses I could use to get out of it. I got home though and Jonathan had cleaned the kitchen, vacuumed and made supper. Plus he bought me a beautiful necklace because he knew I had a couple stressful weeks. How could I not go to floor hockey now, especially when he was so looking forward to it?

So off we went to floor hockey. We go to a pretty small church so the floor hockey group was a mix of ages; from Jonathan's uncle to 10-year-old Emily and every age in between. In the end I was so glad I had gone. One, I need more physical activity in my life. (I'm definitely a couch potato.) And two, it was fun. We laughed and made jokes and no one took the game too seriously. At "half time" we all had fruit punch and rice krispy squares like a big group of kids. I can't wait for this week.

Sunday morning was church of course, but then, since the weather seemed to be turning spring-like, Jonathan and I decided to take Daisy out for a walk. She loved being in the new SUV, she had tons more space in the back but she could still get up close to us. We tried out a new path and Daisy loved it. Sunday evening was church, groceries, and the Amazing Race. And I was happy with how the race turned out too.

Pretty much a perfect weekend I think.

Hope everyone's week got off to a great start! I'm heading out for lunch with my old boss and then off to work. Hopefully I'll have an chance to get some posts scheduled this week.

Weekend Update

I'll be honest, I don't have much of a social life. Hubby and I are both very much home-bodies. But, I have to stop comparing myself to other bloggers and remember that this is my life and as long as I'm happy with it (which I am) than it's okay. I decided to the Weekend Update link-up with Sami even though my weekend was pretty boring. :-)

When I got home from work on Friday I decided I was too tired to make supper so I sent Jonathan to The Battered Fish to get us some fish and chips for supper. They make they best fish and chips I've ever had. It's both good and bad that they've opened up right around the corner... After supper I decided to try out a new nail polish colour I got in my last Avon order. I've been looking for the perfect turquoise for months and I finally found it. I'm pretty impressed with the Essie topcoat I got on clearance a couple weeks back - no chips even after my day on cash.

Saturday I worked 8 to 5. (Just like pretty much every Saturday.) It was crazy busy though, they were forecasting a snow storm plus people were picking up things for their Super Bowl parties. I ended up spending a big chunk of my day on cashing ringing people through. I'm actually not on cash very often so it was kind of weird. My day went really fast though! Saturday night hubby made supper and then we both relaxed on the couch with our books. I love that hubby is turning into a reader.

 

 

 

We had quite the snow storm on Sunday so church services were cancelled. We should have tried to be productive but instead we finished watching season 2 of Body of Proof, took Daisy on a couple snowy walks, and I wasted tons of time on Pinterest. Neither of us are football fans so in the evening I convinced Jonathan to watch Pitch Perfect with me. I was worried it wouldn't be as funny the second time around, but it definitely was.

 

Hope you all had a fantastic weekend!