Welcome to Monday! We had a good good weekend, that included a Friday night in, riding the Denver Trolley, celebrating my mom’s birthday, some solo Mom time on Sunday and then a spontaneous trip to the museum. Oh and looooots of Olympic coverage! I love it so much!

The kids and I picked some baby plums in the backyard before Grandma Lori came to pick them up. I spent the rest of the day working and with no appointments booked, the day felt very chill. Made us all some pesto mini meatball soup for dinner and the peak of summer heat is probably not the best time to make soup but oh well, it tasted great! We let the kids watch the beginning of the Opening Ceremony then took them up for bed and finished the rest by ourselves. Joey says the ceremony had a lot of criticism online but I dug it! Loved seeing all the performers all over the city, plus Celine performing from the Eiffel Tower?? Stop! It’s too good!

We had a busy but super fun Saturday! Started with a swim lesson for Dempsey. His regular coach is at the Olympics and I’m so jealous! And also ready for her to come back, because Dempsey has been so nervous with the subs. Afterward, we headed downtown to ride the trolley with Grandma Lori! It was so cute and fun and I think Dempsey really liked it 🤍 Afterward, we took our time (with a quick stop into REI for Dempsey and I 😂) walking over to BriDer for lunch. Lydia has no chill at restaurants (or anywhere) these days, climbing on everything, running everywhere and is somehow so independent and so attached to me at the same time. I’m tired 😅

Back at home, Lydia took a nap, Joey, Dempsey and I watched some swimming and then I made peach cobbler for dessert later on 😉 Once Lydia was up, both kids got baths and then we tag-teamed a cute hairstyle for her. My family came over around 5:30 for birthday festivities! We had such a good time, drinking wine, showering my mom with gifts, eating some really good burgers and of course, finishing it all off with cobbler. It started raining a few minutes into dinner so we dashed inside, but what can you do? I hope my mom felt loved because she really really is!

What a good Sunday. Felt like it’d been forever since we had pancakes, so maybe that’s why they tasted extra good?! Demps and Lyds were pretty into slalom canoeing and archery and then Joey took them to the park and I walked to get a facial. I’d been wanting to try out Heyday and Lori was kind enough to get me a gift card for my birthday 🥰 Felt so nice! Back at home, lunch, naptime/quiet time and I made salads for the week. It felt like we’d been watching TV for six hours, so once Lydia was up, we headed to the museum again. It was super busy but I really love it there and so do the kids! We went to some areas I hadn’t been before, so that was really cool. I think Dempsey’s favorite part was pressing the elk bugle button 😂 We had pulled pork in the crockpot all day, so dinner came together pretty fast once we got home and then we hung out outside until the kids’ bedtime. After they went down, we watched Big Brother then got into bed ourselves.

It’s going to be a hot, busy, fun week! Wishing you all well 😊