Eat, Nap, Repeat

This past weekend was relaxing and fulfilling. Friday my best friend and I took a much needed mental health day and got to be silly and laugh and relax ALL DAY LONG! A little morning massage and pool time was just what the doctor ordered. I closed up Friday with a late dinner for two with the Husband. Friday = Perfection.

Saturday was a lazy day. We took our time getting out of bed, made a late breakfast and then finally ventured out for some downtown window shopping and MORE FOOD! Our weekends tend to fall into a eat, sleep rhythm that just simply makes my heart happy. I won't talk about what it does to my rear end though, at least not now.

Sunday was church and then catch up sessions with family members, over what else but MORE FOOD! My soul was happy at the close of our weekend. Here's to hoping it stays that way!

Pool side.

Snuggle-fest 2014 and I wasn't invited. :(

Simply YUM!

Austin sky scrapers. 

My partner in eating and napping!

How was your weekend????

Bye for now.

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.

Weekend Warriors

We had such a fun weekend. I was finally able to make it through a full day at work (well most a full day) on Friday. In my industry I have the luxury of being able to work wherever there is wifi, so I've been hiding out at home. There's no one there to ask questions or to have to put on a brave face for, so it's just safer. I tried going in on Monday and one of the new guys and I were talking about lunch. He suggested sushi and I said I hadn't been in much of a sushi mood and he suggested maybe it was because I was pregnant. Now he has NO earthly idea what is going on withe me, but the joke still hurt. Needless to say I left soon there after and finished the rest of the day and week for that matter (with the exception of Friday) from home. Funny enough, the same guy made a comment to me on Friday about morning sickness, I guess it is inevitable. But by Friday, it was a little easier to let it roll off my shoulder, on the inside. That is refreshing to know things are going back to normal. And I've been laughing more, which is so nice. I hate being serious.

Hiding out a home, where no one can make my face do this...

So Friday after I finished work from the house, I dragged Vance out to the Domain. He had head of an event going on, on Saturday that we needed to purchase wristbands for. The event was Taste of Austin. Basically a bunch of local restaurants were coming out and setting up taste testing booths, so you could try out their fare. Wristbands were $20 and that got you 10 tastings. Sounded like something right up our alley! So we decided to make a night of it. Upon arrival I stopped in Forever 21 and H&M, I'm on the hunt for some new summer sandals, then we bought said wristbands and stopped in for dinner at Kona Grill. So yummy! Then we walked down to Copper, which coincidentally serves Austin Cake Balls and had a heavenly nightcap with a side of delicious balls! My favorite is the Vanilla Bean oddly enough, being such a chocolate person, I'm shocked! Vance's favorite is the Birthday Cake. We ended the night at the movies, seeing 22 Jump Street. It was hilarious, I would almost say funnier than the first, I highly recommend it. What a fun Friday, right!?

Kona Grill, yum!

Austin Cake Balls!! Even more yum!

If you are looking for a pick me up...I highly recommend it! Plus, there's Channing, need I say more?

Saturday we headed back to The Domain for the Taste of Austin event. I was HOT and sweaty, but the food was delicious. Some of our regular spots, The League and Tony C's were there, so it was fun to try some of their new stuff. And Nothing Bundt Cakes was there handing out whole mini bundt cakes!!! The Chocolate Chocolate Chip is my favorite! After about two hours of eating, sweating and eating some more, we popped into Cru Wine Bar and we finished off our Saturday soiree with a flight of bubbles, so light and refreshing!!!

'Bout to get our grub on!

Food for days...

Cru Wine Bar. I am a sucker for bubbles!

As we wrapped up our weekend at the Domain, we headed back home to spend the rest of Saturday at home. My new read finally arrived in the mail! I am loving me some Mindy. She was hilarious on The Office and I'm addicted to her new show, The Mindy Project. The woman has me constantly rolling. So I am looking forward to reading her book. Anyone already read it?

In addition to the relaxing I ventured out to Home Depot to gather supplies for my next little DIY project. Part of Pink Gloves Boxing is testing out and advancing up in tiers. As you test out, you receive certificates and such. My certificate and award have just been sitting on the kitchen counter. Personally I think they deserve a little better and so do I, for all the effort I've put into it. So I had the idea of putting together a motivation wall. I approached Vance about the idea of picking out a wall in the master bedroom closet where I could hang my stuff. When we had no qualms about it, and actually excited about the idea, I quickly through in that I wanted to paint the wall pink! Even though he wasn't AS excited about that aspect of the project, he wasn't going to stand in my way of motivation! Such a good man. So Saturday I got all my supplies together and Sunday I did the damn thing! I have secretly been infatuated with pink statement pieces...walls, sofas, refrigerators, etc, so it makes my wanna be interior designer heart so happy to have this bad boy in my life now! I'll be working on getting the Pink Gloves Boxing logo on the wall somehow and then adding my flare. Stay tuned.

The supplies.

The finished product in all its pink glory!

Last but not least we spent the tail end of Sunday supporting the great U S of A in the 2014 Fifa World Cup! Vance is a soccer fanatic, not to mention a soccer player himself, so I've been in Fifa World Cup hell. If we aren't watching soccer on the TV, then were at his actual soccer games. Soccer is taking over my life. By the time the game ended, IN A TIE, I was exhausted from our busy little weekend and ready for bed. So that's exactly what I did, went to bed at 9:30 pm. It was amazing. Here's to hoping this week is a great as our weekend was.

What is with my hair???? Getting ready to cheer of USA!

Reppin' the Red, White and Blue!

Now I want to hear about your weekends!!!!

Bye for Now.