family weekend

we skipped town last week on wednesday and headed up to my parents’ house (my childhood home) in bass lake, for a long weekend to celebrate my paternal gram’s 90th birthday (it was a surprise).

it was wonderful.  and relaxing.  and refreshing. and fulfilling (literally – i never felt hunger. so.much.food.).

highlights:

2,500 pieces of puzzles

mud baths for the kids

balance board competitions

dance competitions on the wii

speed scrabble

fire in the wood-burning stove

strawberry margaritas

hiking

searching for lady bug patches

snuggling my new nephew to sleep

eating yummy food, like my brother’s black bean salsa, mom’s caesar salad, oreo cookie pancakes, apple crisp pancakes, coffee cake, ribs, and s’mores bars.

lots of cousin time, for both the kids and adults

rocket launching

potato gun shooting

raccoon climbing into our kitchen and eating our food

sleeping in

staying up late

playing catch phrase

getting a sparkly pedi from my sister-in-law

just being with my sister (she lives in australia)

have a very happy week, friends!

ps – new items will be up in the shop later today… after grocery shopping and laundry!

girls weekend

i have an awesome husband.

really this post could end here, but i think i should give a little explanation for my hubby shout out.

here goes:

he rescheduled his work trip so he could be home a day early so i could head off early to see my friends.

for the whole weekend.

so at o’dark thirty on friday morning, i headed off solo to l.a.

i met mique at the garment district for a bit of fabric shopping.  mostly i just wanted to see her.  because i love her.

you know those people who you hardly ever get to see, but you connect with so well?  she’s one of them.

but wait – it gets better!  i then got to meet up with jeannett, maggie, jess, and ruthanne!

a whole pile of girls that i absolutely love, but don’t get to see enough.

we piled into a hotel room and laughed and laughed and laughed.

we spent less than 24 hours together, but i wouldn’t give that up for anything.

and i never took out my camera, so my terrible phone pics will just have to do.

the rest of the weekend was so much fun, too!

jeannett and i headed to julie’s house, along with meg, kimberly, mel, emily, heather, jessica, kim and erin.

fun doesn’t even begin to describe it!

the rest of the weekend was a crazy blur, which ended with a little chatting at blog sugar.

and finally landing in my own bed eeeearly early monday morning.

so fun.

thank you sean!