Hanging Out With Friends

It's time for my recap of our weekend happenings. Friday night we invited some friends over for a little "deck party" to help us break in our new deck. It was a last minute thing so many couldn't make it since they already had plans, but we still had a good turn out nonetheless. It was a very casual get together with drinks and a few light snacks. We chilled on the deck chatting it up with friends and had a great time. The weather was absolutely perfect. Just the right temperature and the bugs stayed away, nice! Greg got rave reviews on his nice work on the deck which he so deserved! We hardly used our old deck, but I have a feeling we'll be getting lots of use out of this new one! The deck might be our new Friday night hangout and whoever wants to stop by to hang out can. Thanks to all our friends who stopped by and helped us break in the deck. What a great way it was to wind down the week! Neighbors your welcome to stop by anytime!

Our Saturday didn't end up going as planned. It was originally planned to be a day of just the girls and just the boys. Greg was going to take Evan camping, and Em and I were going to have our own girls day painting nails, doing hair, and going shopping. Well when we woke up Saturday and it was RAINING, there was a change of plans. The boys couldn't really go camping anymore. So we bummed around the house for a bit, had breakfast and then made a Sam's run. We ended up running into Greg's mom and since Evan wasn't able to go camping he wanted to go stay at Ya Ya's house for the night. So we shipped the two kids off for the night and had a free evening. We went for margaritas with our friend Brenda at Senorita and then came back and hung out on the deck. It was a nice peaceful evening. Much needed to be kid free after Little Miss Emmaline had been a pistol for two days!

Since we didn't have our boys/ girls day on Saturday we told the kids we'd do a little boys/girls time on Sunday. Greg and Evan went for a bike ride Sunday which Evan was really excited about and went on some new trails. Em and I hung out at home and we played games and puzzles and had some snuggle time. It was a nice way to spend part of the late morning/ early afternoon. We ended the day with a nice steak dinner on the grill, well steak for me and chicken for Greg since he doesn't eat steak. Although our whole weekend didn't go as originally planned it was a nice weekend overall hanging our with friends and the kids! That wraps it up for our weekend happenings at the Shearwater Nest!

Tonight we had dinner with our neighbor friends, the Marr's. Rich is heading off to school for two years so he won't be around much so we thought we'd get together before he starts school. I love my $15 gift card we got on Mother's Day at Champps. It reloads every month with $15 to use on a purchase of $25 or more. We all ate for $10, you really can't go wrong with that. Heck I couldn't cook at home for $10! We came home from dinner and went for a walk and then I ran some blueberry pie down to my friend Jess because I've been promising her some pie. Besides it was her birthday so I wanted to make sure she got some! She invited us in, and the kids played with her kids and we enjoyed a glass of wine. What a nice evening all around it was! Before I leave tonight I'd like to wish my friend Jessica a very happy birthday! Happy Birthday Jess and thanks again for the glass of wine tonight!