Category: Weekend Things

Weekend Things

Lauren2 Comments

I’m hardly a Taylor Swift fan, but sometimes life is so good that all I can think to say is “today was a fairytale.”  Because sweat pants are extra comfy on a Friday night, avocados are at their creamy dreamiest, the Whole Foods kombucha section is stacked, Sloan’s Lake is a beauty, friends are throwing BBQs and picking the coolest new breweries to try, five mile runs don’t even feel like work and I’m totally motivated to make our yard look clean and cute.

It’s the little things, ya know?

IMG_7953

Welcome to married life.  Where you leave work early on a Friday to go look at River Rock and make your weekly Whole Foods stop.  For whatever reason, I find myself suddenly really into cleaning up our front yard.  Like the whole manual labor thing even!  Who am I?

IMG_7921

IMG_7922

Avocados are the best right now, aren’t they?  They make taco leftovers taste extra good.  They don’t make The Wire any better though… I wanna pretend I’m enjoying the final season of this show, but instead, I extra dislike it.  Oh and we finished The Amazing Race.  The contestants had to catch a football in the end zone at AT&T Stadium and I got sweaty just thinking about how long that would probably take me.

IMG_7954

Night cap!  We literally check the freezer section every week for The Tonight Dough and it’s either not even carried or out.  Lori snagged the last two pints last week and surprised us with one on Thursday night.  Continuing to earn her “Best Mother-in-Law” title.  Guys, the hype is for real.  And that’s it for this week’s episode of “Admitting You Had a Boring Friday Night and Liked It.”

IMG_7929

We started Saturday at a walk for Cystic Fibrosis.  Mother Nature gave us a beautiful morning at Sloan’s Lake.  It was our first time there too!  Afterwards, our team leaders hosted a BBQ for the team.  They live a few blocks from us and just re-did their backyard so I got some extra motivation to get ours done.  Post-nap, we headed to Joey’s cousin Chelsea’s college graduation party.  She had quite the Mexican spread.  Tamale snack for the win!

IMG_7955

IMG_7933

Saturday night dinner + drinks, followed by beer + Scrabble with Hannah and Josh, who, get this, we hadn’t seen in EIGHT WEEKS.  Unacceptable!  I have this weird fear of games (I do not like being on the spot!) but agreed to a game of Scrabble and actually won.  I think it was my play of SQUEAK with Q on a triple letter score that did it.

IMG_7938

IMG_7946

Sunday: woke up, ran 5 miles (that Bolder Boulder is next Monday!), refueled with iced coffee, bought gardening gloves (that my finger broke through the seam of moments after putting them on…) and got to work.  I don’t know if it was that running victory, the bluebird sky or the caffeine buzz but I kinda liked the shoveling and sweeping and sweating.  The front section is ready for stone and sod.  Or something.

IMG_7965

Ended Sunday like the rest of America, watching Mad Men.  What’d everyone think??  I’ll resist any spoilers and just say something seemed kind of off to me.  For me, it wasn’t a satisfying ending.  Though it was leaps and bounds better than the Dexter or HIMYM finales.

Happy Monday!

Mother’s Day Weekend Things

Lauren6 Comments

Sometimes Mother Nature is like “Hey, looks like you’ve overextended yourself this weekend.  How bout I make it pour rain and snow and clear some of those Rockies game out of your schedule?”  She’s cool like that.

IMG_7840

So instead of going to Friday night’s Rockies game (which they actually did play some of but I was not about to sit in the rain to watch), we hit the grocery store and seeing as it’s Friday Pizza Night at Whole Foods, we picked ourselves up a pie for dinner.

Are black olives not the best pizza topping ever?  Took me right back to my childhood.

IMG_7866

Since we were hosting Mother’s Day Brunch, the first half of Saturday was all about prepping food and cleaning the house.  Seriously though, entertaining is the best way to ensure that you regularly clean your house.  After all most of the prep was done, we took ourselves up the street to Denver Beer Co.

IMG_7848

For a Colorado crawfish boil, naturally.  DBC flew fresh crawfish in from LA for the occasion and $35 dollars got you two beers + all the crawfish and fixings you wanted.  Favorite moments were Joey squirting the very uptight-looking girl sitting next to him with claw juice and the guy next to me who was trying to peel his crawfish with a napkin then just ended up eating five pieces of corn instead.  Some people just aren’t made for messy eating 🙂

IMG_7861

Remember how it SNOWED last Mother’s Day?  Yeah, it snowed again this year.  I should probably stop thinking it will be nice enough outside for us to have people over and be able to sit outside.  How is it two weeks from Memorial Day — the day I usually consider the unofficial kick off to summer — and we still have snow?

Anyway, that menu!

IMG_7868

IMG_7867

IMG_7869

IMG_7870

Not even gonna pretend to be upset about having taco extras for lunch leftovers this week.  We had a slight, okay TWO slight, mishaps with our coffee maker (apparently, it’s not up to the task of making an entire pot of coffee) but eventually, Joey and Lori got things working right and of course, MOMosas 🙂

IMG_7865

IMG_7874

My sister was working that morning so we had to give our mom separate Mother’s Day celebrations 😦  I got my mom a bar spoon, you know so she can make “a pitcher of martinis!”  I sure hope she’s sharing that pitcher!  That picture happens to be right after she tried to hang the spoon from my nose.  I told Joey this was a good looking picture and his response was that he always looks good, so no surprise.  So humble, that one.

We spent the second half of the day at Joey’s aunt and uncle’s.  There was homemade German Chocolate Cake and that’s all you need to know.  P.S. Penultimate episode of Mad Men… noooooo!

IMG_7873

In other news, THE SUN IS BACK.  It’s supposed to warm up this week and I feel so good about that!