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Weekend Things

Lauren1 Comment

Two nights out with friends, a trip to the Farmers’ Market, much Saturday relaxation, beer brewing on Sunday morning, seeing Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again with my mom and sister late Sunday afternoon and to cap it all off, Joey making me dinner.  So even though I think I was feeling sort of crabby on Saturday afternoon, I’ve all but permanently deleted that memory from my mind because the rest of the weekend was too good!

Oh and I finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and only cried like five times 😛

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Friday afternoon, we met Hannah and Josh at Community for some happy hour action and oh my gosh, has a cuter baby dino ever existed??  I spend a lot of time thinking “Mason is growing so fast, where is the time going?!” but when I saw him sitting in the restaurant high chair, he looked positively teensy.  He can now do things like feed himself cereal pieces and pull himself up to standing!  Also, we ordered approximately a million plates of food and it was all really good.  We had to grab gelato up the street afterward, because there was no AC in the restaurant and it was SO HOT so we needed a way to cool off 🙂

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We woke up Saturday and headed straight to the Farmers’ Market and it was blissfully the opposite of what the last visit was like, THANK GOD.  We left caffeinated — first stop is ALWAYS Pig Train for nitro iced coffees! — and with peaches and thee fluffiest pita that I am so excited to try.

Not going to lie, much lounging happened during the rest of the day and it was perfectly wonderful.  We watched Ant-Man for the first time and I’ve gotta be honest, it was sorta dorky.  If Paul Rudd wasn’t in it, I probably would not have been interested.  Someone could have warned me about close up shots of ants!  I still have PTSD from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.  

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I cracked open my “Melonilla” kombucha and I think it’s one of the best I’ve ever made!  I absolutely love the vanilla flavor and it’s perfectly carbonated.  Unlike the lime-ginger I made last week that I keep making Joey open for me because it’s explosively carbonated… Oh and we made a trip to our homebrew store for ingredients and got the trim and door painted on my little library.  Just needs to stencil work and it’s ready to go in the ground!

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We met Bobby and Becca at The Source later on for dinner at Comida.  That taco platter is a beaut and all of the tacos were good, but for me, the grilled taco still reigns supreme so I’m probably only ordering those from here on out!  Since we were so close to a handful of breweries, — but can you really be anyplace that’s NOT close to a handful of breweries these days? — we walked over to the Great Divide Barrel Bar for a beer.  There, we reminisced about how perfect the wedding was and I kept hearing myself say stuff like “I remember, at our wedding…” and felt like a real old married person.

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We woke up Sunday and, while Joey got our beer brewing, I made us pancakes and then we had like four hours to kill while we brewed.  I posted a few Sunday clips on my Instagram story and told Joey “it looks like I’ve done a million things today but I’ve really just done like 5 minutes of all of them!”  Those things being garden harvest/upkeep, black bean pressure cooking, reading, a little workout/yoga session and watching the OG Mamma Mia! because I needed to prep for sequel time later.  I was incredibly embarrassing dancing around to “Dancing Queen” but I can’t help it!  Also, that synth sound at the beginning of “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” gives me life!

As for the sequel, as my mom said afterward, “it’s not a good movie but it’s so much fun!”  That fleet of ships carrying dancers performing “Dancing Queen” made me the happiest I’d ever been.  Also, Lily James is a knockout, Jessica Keenan Wynn is a dead ringer for Christine Baranski and I was very very thankful for far fewer musical numbers by the three, ahem old mature men.  Cher doesn’t have a huge role or much screen time but she is a LEGEND, so we should feel lucky any time she graces us with a performance.

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I came home to this stunning dinner that tasted even better than it looked and most importantly, didn’t involve me lifting a finger, except the one I used to swipe my credit card when I bought the salmon on my way home.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there’s nothing better than having a homemade dinner prepared for you!

What did you do this weekend?!

Party Weekend Things

Lauren2 Comments

Hi all, Happy Monday!  I guess I should be kind of depressed that it’s the beginning of another work week but this weekend was so fabulous and I think I’m still riding out the high I have from all the happiness.  I can’t say the same for Joey who has been so.out.of.it. this morning.  But I can’t say I blame him.  We had our engagement party last night and the whole evening was packed with family, friends, food… oh and the Broncos game.  But let’s backtrack to Friday.

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We spent the first half of Friday night taping our bathroom so we could finish painting it.  Joey announced that we wouldn’t be relaxing until everything was taped so we busted it out quick then dove into our Great Divide beer supply, where we found this sticker.  I see these on cars all the time and was so excited to find one.

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We also made some giant salads (aka the only kind of salad I’ll eat) and watched A Guy Thing.  I wasn’t kidding about knowing almost all the lines to this movie as I kept having to remind myself to stop speaking them alongside the actors.  How sad is it that I can even sing along to the background songs?  Actually, don’t answer that.  I also wasn’t kidding about wanting to watch all these movies.  We took down Runaway Bride on Saturday night!

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On Saturday, we did end up getting all the painting done.  I’d seen a bunch of pictures of striped walls on Pinterest and loved the way they looked so we decided to do the same in our bathroom.  Not gonna lie, I also hoped it would give the illusion of a bigger bathroom but I’m pretty sure it still looks teeny tiny.  Anyways, the stripes came out great.  We love it!  I guess the 10 different tester colors we bought were worth it.

We took a break later in the afternoon and headed over to my brother and sister-in-law’s for a little family celebration.  It’s so fun to see my nephew so into school and all the crafts he’s done there.  I hope he inherited my brother’s artistic-ness and not my inability to draw a stick figure.  My niece was all dressed up in a little ballet outfit and it took me right back to my dance class days.  All she needed was a sticker on her right foot so she can know which shoe goes on which foot.

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Sunday involved more work on the bathroom.  We just need to finish up the sink and switch out the shower curtain and shower head and I think we’ll be done.  During a unsuccessful trip to Target for a bathroom mirror I may have purchased two more pairs of nude heels.  Of the four pairs, the two size six pairs were too small and the two size six and a half pairs were too big.  Is six and a quarter a size?  I ended up wearing a too small pair and they were actually fine.  I hoping they’ll stretch out?

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Please excuse the horrible quality of this picture — it was dark and a photoshop expert I am not.

So like I said, yesterday night was our engagement party, hosted by my parents and attended by our closest friends and family.  It’s seriously my hugest pet peeve when bloggers say they didn’t take pictures because they were having too much fun and forgot but seriously… I was having too much fun and I forgot.  We had it at a pizza restaurant — the owner is a client of my mom’s — and everything, from the food to the wine to the company was fantastic.  I am totally and utterly blown away by the outpouring of love.  Every time someone would tell me how genuinely happy they were for us I felt like crying.  My dad gave us a toast — despite me begging him not to 🙂 — and it was perfect.  Short, sweet and from the heart.

As a shy girl my entire life, I have this subconscious notion that people don’t like me and this party (and our whole engagement thus far) has totally convinced me otherwise.  I have been met with nothing but honest support and happiness that has warmed every inch of my heart and made me even more excited for the big day.  And I didn’t think I could be any more excited.

In other news, I just realized I put on all my makeup except mascara, so maybe I’m more out of it than I thought!