Father’s Day – Page 2 – Life as Lauren

THIS WEEKEND:

Friday breakfast date on the patio at Port Side.

Co-worker birthday treats. Got a request that it be a healthy treat, so strawbs and dark chocolate peanut butter it was!

Ditching work early to go grocery shopping, as one does. Right?…

Repeating “they’re shishito peppers” to the cashier at least 10 times.

Pizza, beer and best friend time with Josh and Hannah (WHO IS NOW A REGISTERED NURSE!!!!!).

Little Man, because if your BFFs have never been, it’s your duty to show them the way.

Saturday breakfast in the backyard followed by a bike ride to the Farmers’ Market, a new summer ritual that I’m madly in love with.

Family picnic at City Park for my niece’s birthday. SHE’S FIVE — when did that happen?!

Backyard beers + outdoor movie night = my heart is so happy!

Sunday morning run, followed by iced coffee and lots of reading on my porch swing.

Father’s Day lunch & my third Gose of the weekend — don’t judge!

Food prep for the week (iced coffee, pickled veggies, “Power Salads,” the best slider buns), before GoT and all the fist pumping I did through the entire thing. That episode was maybe a little predictable but also SO SO SATISFYING.

Little Man’s got pride!

It’s official — Space Junky is tied with Salted Oreo for best flavor ever at Little Man.

You didn’t think I’d waste all the bottoms of the strawberries from Friday, did you??

Def did not wake up at 2 AM to strain this iced coffee.

Bánh Mì sliders coming later this week!

So now it’s Monday (sad face) but it’s also the first (official) day of summer (MAJOR HAPPY FACE) and this weekend was a good (albeit HOT) one, so no complaints from this girl. Plus I’ve got a hair appointment, yoga, planter box preparations, Big Brother (!!!) and happy hour plans with my mother-in-law on the agenda for this week. Gonna be a good one ♥

Here are the makings of a perfect weekend:

Pulling three black and white dresses out of your closet for Friday, Saturday, Sunday outfit perfection
Friday dinner plans that combine family, pizza and a Moscow Mule
Up close and personal seats at Wicked
Jenn’s Birthday!
The Spice Girls, Will Smith, Hanson AND Whitney Houston playing in the bar you’re at and the hell with it, all of us girls are gonna dance
Saturday morning at the coffee shop when a girl biker gang shows up and they’re all just so cool
When “Buy beer” is the first “appointment” in your calendar
Biking to an amusement park in a dress and wedges and feeling like you’re just as cool as a girl biker gang
A Summer Shandy + a company picnic where you’re able to sweet talk yourself into winning the raffle Rockies tickets
Cutting into a pan of perfectly sweet and soft cornbread (yeah it may have been 85° degrees in our house and yeah I may have turned the oven on anyway, but that cornbread was worth it)
Summer BBQs, live bands, pulled pork and the coolest red truck, because no farm would be complete without one
Standing over your kitchen island to share a chocolate cupcake at midnight
Nieces that love to pose for the camera and enjoy Magna-Doodles just as much as you did when you were a kid
When you’re entrusted with the task of cutting the first piece of the world’s largest layer cake
Father’s Day cards that nail your relationship with your dad
Sprinklers that water your grass for you
Reading on the porch
Having the awareness to realize how super sweet summer is and soaking up every second of it