Perfect Sorts of Weekends.

We're enjoying this weekend working on the garden, playing with the pups, finishing up little home projects, and enjoying awesome cupcakes & coffee.

These types of weekends are my favorite: low key & spent with the family and friends.

Tonight we're planning on seeing a local show downtown & who knows what kind of adventures we have in store for us tomorrow.

[my fingers are crossed for either a kayaking trip or to set sail in our new little boat]

Hope your  weekend is just as awesome!

xoxo,

H.

Sailboats...

 We finally got the sails for our sailboat,

D is estimating our first voyage to take place in July.
He still has some cosmetic work on the basic structure, but other than that, its looking great.

I really don't know if I could be anymore excited.
I'm ready for many adventures on the water this summer.

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This week has been such a blur...

Works been consistently busy, and right now in my Master's program we are doing a program stimulation where we are virtually running our own business.

On top of that, we had a pretty crazy storm last night that my dear pups decided to share with me by waking me up at two & three o'clock this morning.

I don't really know how well I slept after that because I was pretty sure at that moment that there was going to be a tornado siren going off just as I fell back asleep [there wasn't].

Oh my.

What a week.

I didn't really think about how crazy this week has felt until I came home tonight and realized how behind I am on....everything. There's laundry that needs done, mail that needs sorted, life that needs lived, my garden needs weeded, my house needs cleaned, and I still have more homework waiting for me for this next week. 

Basically,

I'm ready for the weekend.

For some fun times.

For some garage sales.

For some sleeping in.

And for some cupcakes!

I heart Weekends.

Ah, Sunday,

I have such a love/hate relationship with you.

I love you because you're one more day before the work week starts again, but I always hate when you're over because the work week starts again.

It doesn't help any that I'm predicting a busy Monday at work or that there are homework assignments looming over my head that I really should be starting on. 

It also doesn't help that I feel like I've wasted today because I've done absolutely nothing, but that's what happens when one doesn't sleep very well the night before and has been feeling miserable which was the trigger for not sleeping well in the first place. 

Oh well, sometimes I think those days come so that we're taking the time for our bodies and given them the necessary rest they ultimately need.

Plus,

This was a pretty good weekend so I can't really complain.

On Friday,

D & I did date night, which consisted of a walk around the neighborhood, stuffing our faces at Long Horn with appetizers, and going out to Jake's show.

It's nice getting to spend some time with D, especially since these last two weeks have been crazy and I have barely had a chance to really spend time with him.

 (If you haven't guessed, yesterday was HOT)

On Saturday,

I joined D & Jake as their head cheerleader to support their competition in the Relay for Life Volleyball tournament. 

It was a lot of fun being out in the sun cheering on the boys and the competition brought a ton of money in for the cause.

Jake played great and D made all kinds of amazing blocks which triggered a proud wife sort of status. 

And as stated early, today has been all about rest.

Ash bought all of us Chinese today and then we all crashed for a mandatory nap time.

So weekend,

Please don't end.

Give me just a few more hours, okay?

Sometimes I wonder...

Sometimes I wonder....

Why society ever thought it would be a good idea to invent a multiple choice question based exactly off of an intense amount of reading.

Why my dog sometimes has this weird desire to chomp my face.

Why people are crazy... ever single one of us.

Why chocolate covered strawberries taste so amazing.

Why someone ever invented a 5 day work week and only 2 days of fun. 

Why Americans do not embrace siestas. 

Why cable can have a billion + one channels and STILL one cannot find a single thing decent to watch on t.v.

Why weight gain was ever invented.

Why Amanda Bynes is so crazy.

Why bad things happen to good people.

Why I hate laundry so much.

Why there aren't things like money or skittle trees.

Why people still believe reality t.v. is actually a real thing when it's obviously not.

The day our awesome staycation ended...

The thing I hate the most about staycationing is that they are never, ever long enough.

There's just something about being away from the stresses and worries of life that is so comforting and being able to spend those precious few moments with the person you love the most, well, it really can't get much better than that.

On our final day of staycationing, we decided to start our morning out with some juicing.

The juicer we got an incredible deal on during our day of garage sale hunting has really come in handy!

It's not only healthy, but it has really helped us avoid having our produce go bad.

If it looks like something is getting a little old, we just throw it in the juicer and make something yummy out of it or it gives us an opportunity to use the juice of those fruits & veggies at a later time for things like soups.

This particular day we decided to try oranges + grapefruit + kale + carrots + banana

Oh so good!

We also gorged ourselves on pancakes, which is always a good choice.

...especially on a day off.

...and we bought a sailboat.
I'm pretty sure D couldn't be any happier... he's been begging for a sailboat for years.
I'm also pretty sure the ocean & the love for water runs through both D & I's veins.
D grew up sailing with his family and I grew up by the ocean.
It's kind of a match made in heaven, us + the boat = pure bliss.
Really, this decision was only logical for crazy dreamers like ourselves.

After our morning adventures, we decided to head out on our kayaks and enjoy the water for a few hours as our upcoming work week loomed in the distance.

It was really nice to just get away from everything, to enjoy the water, and to feel such an overwhelming sense of peace & tranquility.

Some days, these types of activities are just needed.

I'm also pretty sure this is my all time favorite view of the city.

Being in a moment like this reminds me just how much I really do love Columbus.

And of course, sunsets can't get any prettier then when one sees them on the water.

After we got back to shore, we decided to round up the roommates and go out to the Columbus Commons to watch Shakespeare in the Park.

This particular night, they were showing Comedy of Errors.

We laughed, we ate Brown Bag, basically it was a really awesome night.

D, thank you so much for 3 wonderful years of marriage.

I am so beyond lucky to have you & I'm so glad for these moments we can share together.