WEEK IN PICTURES| Memorial Weekend

We kicked off our 3 day weekend with a dinner we like to call the “Gilmore Girl Feast”. If you don’t know about the GG’s all you have to know is that they have an unhealthy appetite of eating really good yet very bad for you food for dinner. They don’t need home cooked meals to make them happy and neither did we Friday night.Haidyn and I baked a Strawberry Mango Jello Poke cake for the Saturday Campout before Waymon got home.  Waymon picked up our dinner and drinks while Haidyn and I picked out movies for the everyone; Paddington, Selma and The Cobbler.

 

 We didn’t get to watch the movies until Saturday Morning, but we sure did have fun eating everything in front of us. There were no leftovers, no food wasted and Haidyn ate almost an entire double cheeseburger to herself. We were very proud parents. Our kid was prancing around our living room with her food in hand, happily dancing I might add. And yes, we ate on the floor picnic style in our living room. Haidyn was no longer sad about her “owee” from school. 

 We woke up Saturday morning groggy from our GG feast, but ready to conquer the day! All of that excitement lasted until we noticed that it was raining outside. I  started my bow board for Haidyn so that I could make any adjustments if needed. Once Haidyn woke up, we whipped up an easy breakfast, cleaned and popped in a movie before Grandma Tracey’s visit. Haidyn was eager to show Grandma how fast she can walk now. Seriously, the kid can almost run with her stride. Nonetheless, we were proud of her and just as excited as she was. Grandma dropped of some great books for Haidyn to read through the weekend too! Of course, her favorite was the alphabet book. 

After Grandma left, we binged watched all of the redbox movies. Haidyn could only sit through some of Paddington before napping. Waymon even got a little nap too when watching Selma. We watched all of the movies before packing up to head over to get together with the family for our family campout. 

 Everyone was happy to see Haidyn and we were so excited to see everyone. We were welcomed with lots and lots of food. Such good food! Haidyn ate a little as she was still busy greeting everyone and exploring. She got to spend lot of time with her Papa Lolo as we got to spend time with my cousins. It was great catching up with everyone and laughing over Pitch Perfect and the fact that our parents were putting more and more tents up in the backyard then needed. We left before Haidyn’s bedtime to head home so that we could put her down. We didn’t want another bedtime meltdown from her. 

smores cupcake before devouring

 
 Waymon and I ended the night watching a “scary” movie; the taking of Deborah Logan. I will say it got me good during some jumpy parts and I cuddled with Waymon way to much to overcompensate for me being scared, but it wasn’t too bad after it was all done. It was more of an “erry” scary rather than an actually scary. 

Sunday came along and we basically redid our Saturday all over again. It was finally beautiful outside. There was sun and not a drop of rain! We celebrated the latter with a big breakfast of crepes, eggs and turkey bacon!  We take our weekend breakfasts pretty seriously. We rarely eat something small.

 

 

i finally moved sass' bed to the window and she stayed there all weekend.

After cleaning up the house a little more, I went off to have tea with a friend to catch up. It was great catching up with her. I rarely, if ever, go out with my friends because of our busy schedule but it’s so nice to do so when we have the time. By the way, if you’re in Reno please go to Too Soul Tea Co. it’s seriously too good. Any who, after my lunch time tea I picked up the babes to head over to the park to meet up with our friends for a family day date.

  We had a family picnic while we waited for our friends to head over to the park. Haidyn loves hanging out being a big girl while we’re out and about. She sat quietly while she ate her chips and little sandwich as she people watched. Once we were done with our lunch, we met up with our friends to have our girls play.

 

 

 

and yes they're always so cute like this [:

 They were more interested in roaming the playgrounds rather than each other, but it was nice to see their friendship form just a little bit. Haidyn hasn’t been around kids her own age, since the girls at her school are about 2 years older than her but she did try . The girls did their own thing as we all caught up with each other’s lives as parents .  We headed to the store to do some grocery shopping and headed home shortly after. Waymon and I called it a night as we surrendered to Netflix to watch Turtle Tales!

 

 

 

excited for turtle tales!

 

Monday was our day that we had no intentions of acknowledging the outside world. It began to be raining and stormy where we were so we ended up making another big breakfast, reading books and enjoying a movie marathon! I finally got to watch Kurt Cobain’s documentary and we were all in heaven. Haidyn loves Nirvana, if you didn’t know so she was jammin to all her boys! She didn’t even nap so that she wouldn’t miss Kurt. We proceeded to watch other movies such as; The Sixth Sense, This is Where I Leave You, Tangled, Big Hero 6, 8 mile, The Other Woman and Wayward Pines ( not a movie, but such a good series already!) Seriously, we binge watched everything and had no regrets about it. We never have lazy days, so it was nice to actually just spend time together. I cooked up some turkey cheeseburger chili for dinner and we sat once again in the living to eat dinner to end our wonderful weekend together.

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Thank you for all those who have served time for our great nation as well as those who are currently still serving. Without you, my family wouldn’t be able to have such great weekends like these.