We actually had a pretty fun weekend around here. We spent it with friends and family! On Friday night my brother and his family came over. I made homemade pizzas and cookies. We chatted and caught up for 4 hours! It was nice. Really. We haven't really seen much of each other in the 7 months (like twice) we have lived here and we only live 30 minutes from each other. Sad, but we are hoping to make a change this year. We're hoping to have "family" night at least once a month. I'm looking forward to it. The kids LOVED playing with their cousins. They have a new cousin on the way, whom shall be at the next family night. How fun!
Lives are busy, but there should always be time to enjoy family. My brother is in dental school, so he's really busy studying. His wife sells Lia Sophia, so she seems to have parties every weekend. Nick works. I'm always working on homework. So weekends are our "free" time. So glad we are able to make a day work and get together.
Saturday we woke up to about 2 inches of snow. Xander loves seeing "snow-man" as he calls it. He had to come up and make sure I saw it too. I ended up going out to shovel earlier than I wanted because some twerp of a kid down the street likes to use our driveway as a turnaround with his 4 wheeler. I hate have vehicle tracks on the snow. I don't know why, but I do. After I shoveled, the tracks were still there a bit, but a few hours later, the awesome sun melted them away and my driveway was looking normal. I know, it's anal.
Kids took great naps because they were told after they take naps they get to go play with their friend, Lily. I guess they knew it was going to be a fun night for them! Around 330 we started getting ready. Nick and I were going to be going to dinner with Lily's parents while Lily's oldest sister watched all the kids. I curled my hair, gave myself some beachy waves. My favorite way to do my hair when I wear it down. The best part is it really don't take that long. Maybe 20 minutes. I also had to make the kids dinner so after I finished up with my hair and getting dressed, so I rushed down to cook them some spaghetti. We get to their house and pretty much dropped the kids off and headed back out. We went to the Texas Roadhouse. Yummy! I never get steak, because I'm not a steak person, but I always get their shrimp. I love it. We sat there for 3 hours and caught up. Like my brother, we rarely see these guys either. Lives are busy and when you get that rare downtime, the last thing you think about is going out. You just want to stay home and relax.
I'm glad that it worked in everyone's schedule to get together because it was fun. It's the little boost in self confidence that a person needs sometimes.
Sunday. Fun day for me! I decided to go shopping, because I needed groceries and all. But on the way to the store I made a detour and headed to the outlets. Ha! I had my 4th gymbuck (Gymboree) to use up by the end of the night and I couldn't find anything online, so I thought the outlet would be great. I was right, Xander landed a bunch of shirts and Sterling just a few. I then went next door to Osh Gosh, just to look. I came out with a nice fleece lined coat for Sterling for $20! Original was $50. She needed a spring coat, so why not? Xander's spring coat will still fit him from last year. Here's where it gets fun. I went to the Gap. I decided that as I'm walking around in my yoga pants...as I always do...it's time to step out of my comfort zone. Now, if I would have known I was going to find some self confidence this day, I would have done my hair, but I went only to grab the stuff for the kids, so in my usual attire of yoga pants and pony tail it was. Now, let's go inside the dressing room (I don't usually take pictures in the dressing room. But, I'm stepping out of my zone!) When I got to the last top (I just left the same style jean on for all tops), I was giggling with excitement. I didn't think I'd love the second top (turquoise), but that one is my absolute favorite.
Selfies are the worst, but whatever. I actually liked the tops and jeans. I got all 4 tops and 3 different jeans. For the jeans, I've always hated buying jeans, but I really like the premium boot cut style. I thought I'd like the curvy the most...you know, since I'm thick and curvy, but they weren't my favorite. I bought 2 pairs of the boot cuts and 1 curvy. I'm excited to start dressing like a lady and not so much a frump. Gap also had a terrific sale yesterday. Jeans were 50% off. Then they had a special; spend $75, get $25 off! I did 3 transactions to get that savings!
Now maybe I'll have to start adding accessories? Hold up...let's just start with getting dressed in regular looking clothes first! Ha!
I put a roast in the crockpot in the morning so I didn't have to worry about dinner since I had to work on homework too. I think I bought the wrong roast. It was a round roast and I should have bought a rump roast. It was okay, but definitely not my favorite roast night. I'm very critical on my food, but it seemed dry. I cooked on low for 8 hours. Maybe a round roast is supposed to be dry? Every time I've made the rump roast, it never dried out. But why can I NEVER find a rump roast when I'm looking? I don't know the darn difference in meat cuts, but no more round roast! Thankful we had food on our table :)
Enough of my babbling. Have a wonderful day!
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