Weekend recap.

I trust and hope everyone had a great weekend... it was busy and crazy for me, but any time that I'm off of work seems to be that way.  Funny how that works.  Regardless, here's some highlights from my weekend.

1.  I took off for Iowa around noon on Friday... rode with my brother Chad and his wife and kids... it was a fabulous 3 hour trip because I slept the entire way.  Ahh, love naps.  We arrived in Iowa that evening and headed straight to the Botanical Center where the wedding was for rehearsal.  You see, my family is incredible for so many reasons, but one of them is that we make up a band.  My Dad plays trombone, I play trumpet, my brother Chad plays tenor sax, my sister plays alto sax, my not-so-little brother plays bass, and my Mom plays piano.  Fabulous, right?  So our neighbor from our old town asked us to play in her wedding, and while we no means claim to be pro's, it's still fun to play together.  So we had rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, then the girls went shopping for swimsuits, and the guys headed back to the hotel.  I ended up buying a really ugly swimsuit, but it was cheap, so that's all that matters.  The rest of Friday night was spent just hanging around the hotel with the fam.  We always have the best time together, no matter what we're doing. 

2.  Friday night I also heard from one of my long lost very good friends of mine.  It was awesome.

3.  Saturday we slept in, practiced, then spent the afternoon shopping.  You have to understand that since I've lost weight I have NO summer clothes.  I'm not saying I have a few things... I literally had nothing.  No shorts, no capris, and no summer shirts.  So I was on a hunt for some relatively cheap summer clothes... you know me; I'd rather spend my money on our house instead of on stupid clothes.  My sister and I headed to Forever21... you know, the most unorganized, upside-down stores in all of America, but here's what I came out with:


Then we headed to American Eagle where I found these:


So, that's what I'll be sportin' throughout the summer.  I know it doesn't seem like much, but I work 5-6 days a week and have to dress up for work... so it's not like I'll have much time that I can wear this stuff anyways.  It stinks being grown-up.  :)

4.  The wedding was beautiful; no big surprise there.  The dance stunk so we left early and headed back to the hotel where we all crashed kinda early.  A lot of my high school friends were back in New Sharon and I debated all night if I should go see them or not... and by the time I said I was going to go it was almost midnight so it wasn't going to even be worth it.  Me and my in-decisiveness.  Blah. 

5.  Headed back to Kansas on Sunday and slept the entire way back again.  It was sooo great to be home and see my husband.  He wasn't able to go this weekend because he was in Chicago for part of the week last week and didn't get back until too late and then ended up working on stuff around the house all weekend.  I missed him so much so it was great to see him again. 

Overall the weekend was good... my only regrets are that I wish I could have spent more one-on-one time with my sister, and I wish Tyler could have joined us.  I'm really missing my sister right now.  :(  Other than that, it was great.

6.  Here's a few pics of some random things going on around our home!


Tyler and our friend Andy stained our deck this weekend... here's a good picture of the stain we chose.  The deck needed done really bad so Tyler made that a priority before we even moved in that he was going to stain the deck as soon as he could.  They ran out of stain so he's going to finish it during the course of this week.  It looks awesome!!

 

The flowers in the front of the house are starting to bloom and they are beautiful.  I am so clueless when it comes to plants and flowers... I wish I wasn't.  Anyone know what I have growing here??

 

Our downstairs furniture finally arrived today!!  Woohoo.  Finally... no more sitting on the ground while we watch TV.  Haha.  You can't really see much in the picture, but we got black leather with a coffee table, 2 side tables and lamps.  We are happy with it!  Now I just need to find some things to go on the walls and figure out how to decorate down there.  Suggestions are welcome!!  :)

Have a great week!!