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Mother’s Day at Our House

Lauren4 Comments

For Mother’s Day, my mom requested that she be able to work in my “garden.”  To be clear, I don’t actually have a garden.  I have concrete and jungle weeds, but no garden.  I think her plan was to remedy that, but Mother Nature had other plans… like snow.  I guess it was her day too and she can do what she wants?  We opted for a big family breakfast at our house instead.  Turns out we can fit eight people and a table in here 🙂

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Joey and I spent a few hours prepping on Saturday, so come Sunday morning, all we had to do was pop a few things in the oven, make coffee and stall while one of the three quiches we made proceeded to take an hour longer to cook than it was supposed to.  Luckily, we’d gotten a head start that morning but seriously, quiche, do you have to be like that?

In addition to quiche, we made a sweet potato hash, a fruit salad and what’s Mother’s Day without Mimosas?  For the record, we barely put a dent in that huge bottle of champagne.  We also drank three pots of coffee, laughed over the card I got for my mom and watched Jory put on a light show with some fun pen thing he brought.  I’ve already asked if he could bring it to our wedding 😛

Several hours later, when everyone had cleared out and all the leftovers had been put away, I felt really proud of our first hosting gig in our own home.  My mom has been hosting family gatherings my whole life and I’d never realized how much work goes into it.  Taking on the responsibility this weekend just made me appreciate her so much more.  I love you, Mom 🙂  And Lori, thanks for making me feel like a part of your family since the moment I met you.  You raised a pretty great son and for that, I’m grateful 🙂

Happy (Snowy) Monday!

Weekend Things

Lauren8 Comments

Oh hi. Remember me?

Joey and Josh headed to Texas this weekend for the Cowboys/Broncos game (Joey is a huge Cowboys fan and Josh is a huge Broncos fan so that should be interesting), and I’m not gonna lie, it felt so good to not feel the pressure to do any house/wedding-related work.  Don’t get me wrong, that kind of work is really fun, but I also tend to get stressed out pretty easily (everyone who knows me is probably laughing right now…) so the break has been nice.  Plus I’ve had a week-long headache…yeah, I wasn’t kidding about getting stressed out easily.

So instead of renovations and venue shopping, I’ve been spending the weekend relaxing.  Ah, so nice.  On Friday night, we went to Joey’s uncle’s birthday — his aunt was so genuinely happy about our engagement and I was so touched by it 🙂 — then headed to a local bar to check out a possible wedding band (okay, I guess we did do a little bit of wedding stuff).  Verdict: They ROCKED.  Now let’s hope they’re in our budget…

On Saturday I got a much needed massage (see above regarding week-long headache) then spent the evening with my fellow bride.  Guess what we talked about?!  We had an early dinner at True Food Kitchen (help, I’m obsessed with this not so cheap restaurant!) and kicked off the night with some fun cocktails.  Cucumber Martini for Hannah, Ginger Margarita for me.  I thought they were both delicious!

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What we were really in the area for however, was Canvas & Cocktails!  Ugh, I can’t believe I’ve waited so long to do one of these classes.  If you’re not familiar, basically it’s a giant art class where they feed you wine and cocktails then walk you through painting a pre-designed picture.  It was SO FUN!  There were a ton of girls (and a few guys too) who were all singing, sipping wine and generally having a blast.

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While I totally expected to be terrible at painting, the cool thing was that as complicated as the demo picture looked, it was really pretty simple and the coolest part was that there was so much room for personalization.  None of the paintings looked the same at the end of the class.  I think I’ll hang mine in my crawlspace.  Or, if you receive this for Christmas, you can assume I don’t like you.

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Sunday started with a heavy dose of family time.  I hadn’t seen my brother & co. in so long!  My nephew is suddenly this calm well behaved boy and my niece is speaking.  When did this happen?!  Plus my mom and sister outdid themselves with this fabulously delicious breakfast.  French toast, roasted potatoes, fruit salad, coffee and cheesy bacon and veggie scrambled eggs.  I think all the food groups were covered in just one plate.

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Afterwards, my headache started to pick up but I decided to head to yoga anyway and actually felt so much better afterwards.  A little me-time really did the trick I guess.  Plus this tasty snack was waiting for me back home afterwards.  I know the rest of Colorado is probably drinking beer and watching the Broncos game, but a green smoothie and some Property Brothers is more my style.

IMG_4904This week is going to be busy with a venue tour/menu tasting on Tuesday, a photography consultation on Wednesday and vacation on Thursday night.  We’re leaving for New Orleans and although the trip totally snuck up on me, I am so so excited to be there.  I’ve already heard that my aunt wants to take us to a brewery and yes, Aunt Tricia, that is totally fine with me!  Here’s to taking some of this weekend’s calm with me into the packed week ahead!