Squeeze In the Good Where/When You Can

Our weekdays are JAM PACKED! Here's a little view into what our Monday thru Friday tends to look like.  This doesn't even include the 8-9 hours a day we spend working for tat mighty dollar! *B is for both. :)

Monday: LifeGroup 6-8pm (B)/ Soccer (V)
Tuesday: Bowing 6-7pm (S)/ Soccer (V)
Wednesday: Volleyball (S)/ Soccer (V)
Thursday: Boxing 6-7pm (S)
Friday: BREATHE

Soccer and volleyball game times can vary, which make the week just that much more enjoyable. It also leaves me feeling like we don't get to spend a whole lot of quality time together during the week. By the time Friday rolls around I am craving some hardcore 1:1 time with my man! Like want to drag him into a dark cave, where no one can find us and just decompress and get a love recharge from the week. Am I a complete weirdo????? Vance seems to think so, hahah, but he does put up with it! The summer in particular is just the worse. Starting in April the family birthdays, on both sides, keep us in full swing. Between birthdays, birthday parties, graduations, reunions, vacations, baby showers and don't forget the holidays, we are in CONSTANT go mode.

Fridays we do our best to make ZERO plans if we can help it, other than to grab some dinner with each other. And then we do what we do best and attach our asses to the couch and get lost in tv or a movie we've been wanting to rent. It's glorious! This time is so crucial for us. We used to not be very good at taking time to check in with each other or our marriage. Which sounds crazy, but it is so easy to get lost in the motion of things. So this is our time to see how each other are doing with work, life, other relationships and specifically anything going on in our marriage that we need/want to talk about or sort out. It's amazing how much better I feel (I won't speak for Vance) after these conversations. I go to bed happy and at peace after Friday dinner dates. And I can use all the happy and peace I can get!

Saturdays are typically reserved for our FUN days. This Saturday in particular we made a trip down to the South side of Austin to visit South Congress. South Congress, for you non Austinites, is a funky, hipster-filled food and shopping mecca burrowed just outside of downtown Austin. It's a great place for people watching and stuffing your face and shopping for unique and stylish finds. We don't make it down often, but Saturday I was feeling the need to something different and outdoorsy and so we knew it was the perfect spot.  The SOCO area stretches about 5-6 blocks on both sides of the street. We parked on one end and made our way down and back up while browsing the funky stores and stopping in restaurants to eat and drink and be merry! After out little adventure down South, we came back home for a little cat nap, or a 2 hour cat nap, bit whose counting???? Once we pulled ourselves out of our mid day sleep slumber we headed back out for what else other than, MORE FOOD! We visited one of our favorite little neighborhood sushi joints. Saturday was food perfection. I miss it already.

Our first stop on South Congress at Little Barrel and Brown for beverages.

Vance doing what he does best, while I window shopped at TOMs.

Lunch at Perla's, we started will grilled oysters. YUM and my first oyster EVER!

One of Austin's favorite boot shops, Allen's Boots.

Tomo Sushi, try the Ex-Girlfriend roll, it our favorite!

This past Sunday I co-hosted a baby shower. I kind of feel like leaving it at that. It was for one of my best friends from high school. Him and his wife are expecting twin boys in October. I am so very happy for them and they were very grateful for the shower.

Typically, Sundays are spent at church and then usually meeting up with our families for lunch or dinner. And then preparing for the next week ahead of us. It's hard to cram all the good and fun into two days a week, but we do what we gotta do! How far away is retirement, hahahahah!??????

How do you guys spend your weeks?

Bye for now.