Hope you all had a fun/good weekend. We were busy the whole weekend, although I stunk at actually taking pictures, for some reason.
Friday, we had framily come stay with us - we played at the beach and had the best pizza around (Hello, O.G. Bizzarros), and played games...and talked for hours. I sure to do love having them. We had lots of pool time throughout the weekend, too... so much sunshine, mixed with some sun showers, mixed with LOTS of humidity lol
Then, Sunday, was a mixture of work and play.
Riding bikes to Publix to get some things for me - but Caroline wanted to go with Autumn, so I wanted to go to keep an eye on Caroline...but she wanted to be a big girl with her big sister, so I trailed behind them, pretending I wasn't there, and I waited outside the store, while they went shopping for me.
They came home and made edible play-doh. There wasn't much playing, but there did seem to be a lot of eating. lol
Also, my husband got me a new vaccuum. lol. Yep, it's my love language, cleaning tools. ha!!
Anyway, he got this new Ryobi vacuum because he's on a mission to change out all "tools" too the ryobi batteries so we can just interchange them. We have the pole cutter, leaf blower, drill (and I'm sure some other tools I don't even know about lol). The vacuum works GREAT! But my favorite feature? It stands upright all on it's own. Unlike every other cordless vac I've had.
//VACUUM//
THEN he got this air pump (like for bikes and balls)
And another air pump for like air mattresses (which we actually used BOTH of these this weekend, and they were so handy not to need a plug, but also, the bike pumps are SO annoying and this thing was so quick and easy! lol I laugh at his purchases sometimes, but I'll be darned, if I'm not excited to use them myself and giddy when they work. lol
I spent most of the day pulling everything out of the back porch and cleaning/scrubbing it, with all the dirt and pollen, it needed a good scrub. And at the end of the night, I finally sat down out there with a glass of wine and a book to enjoy it!
I started my morning off with a "late" workout (I say late, but as you can see the sun was just rising. But that's me. I like to get it in before the sun rises.)
I loved my view from my workout room. These banners were part of my AMAZON HAUL.
I tried to stay with the theme - red, white, and blue for all outfits and food! lol
breakfast - vanilla greek yogurt, granola, berries, and chia seeds *yum!
The girls did it up pretty big, too! I love that they still love to get all themed up with me still.
Amazon Haul for most of our fun garb!
And just look at these babies... gosh I miss those cheeks!
We had family and friends over for dinner and fireworks, so I started cooking early.
Listen. I have tried SO many different ways of cooking bacon. We LOVE bacon. BUT every time I cook bacon, it either makes a mess IN the oven/toaster oven/microwave OR it smokes out the house. I finally got smart and decided to cook the bacon on the grill burner yesterday! lol.
The girls and I made 2 different desserts that both ended up being really good!
The cookie
No Bake Summer Berry Lasagna, which was the star of the show, actually.
It was layers of Red, white, and blue.
and it was so good!
Both of those recipes are in my Summer Lovin' Board.
After family left, we waited around for it to get dark, and went out side to do fireworks (sorry neighbors!). Friends came over and the kids all had fun with the sparklers.
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