WHAT a GRAND weekend!!!!!

Can you say
MUCH NEED RELAXATION
and
REST!!!!

Usually - usually Memorial day weekend is wet, cool or cold and dismal. It's not the first choice for me to have off and usually one that I don't mind working. A lil while back I made a deal (with the devil as I call it) to work ONLY the Fourth of July (my first requested holiday) in order to get all the other summer holidays off.

When it came time for Memorial Day to come I was looking forward to a much needed three day weekend. I am just exhausted.... pure through and through exhausted. I could use two weeks off just to sleep in, orgainze and de-clutter the house and just rejuvinate. But I was going to be happy with my three days AND the holiday to boot.

Saturday (as you already know from my previous Snap Shots of Saturday) I worked. Not a big deal. It was 7A to 7P (yes I worked a day shift) and it wasn't bad. It went quickly and I was home with my fam in no time. Be all that it may I was EXHAUSTED and fell right to sleep in the middle of my dinner - I was home. The girls didn't miss me either - they were at the lake.....
Then they met me at work for lunch. That was a real treat.


After visiting me they went to the zoo and hung out at the lily pond.


We were worried that moving to Chicago would take a lil "nature" out of the girls but there is SO much here to do.


Sunday proved much different. I was exhausted and slept in. My girls and hubby were actually QUIET! I was shocked when I woke up. I felt very refreshed even though we were facing 31c degree weather. We tried to stay cool and play down any and all activity. We spent time in our back yard..... (?YES we DO have a BACKYARD?)

We got the hammock up so that I could lay back and read.... but as soon as I plopped down in it I crashed down onto the patio.... OUCH!!!!!! Between you and me the only thing that was hurt was my pride - but for the sake of the "the hubby who put it up." I am in EXCRUCIATING pain! LOL!!!!



Natalie set up home on one of the tables and preceded to draw pictures of outfits she thought would make GREAT summer wear for me and Rowan. She came up with some good sketches. She does not want me to scan or photograph them for fear someone might steal her idea. She is so cute how she puts detail into her clothes down to lace on the end of sleeves and drawings on the front of her shirts. She can not wait for project runway this fall.

As you can tell both girls got their fill of sun on Saturday eventhough they were bathed and rebathed in sunscreen. Gotta work on the application of said lotion with the hubby.

After a while - we ventured out for "movie time." We went to see HOOT. AWESOME movie. I mean this was a GREAT movie. It looked cute to begin with but within thrity minutes the girls and I were riveted at the screen. For me it was a trip down memory lane. The movie was filmed in Florida (where I grew up) and Jimmy Buffett (BIG Jimmy Buffett fan - grew up on his music, went to several of his concerts AND going this summer to Tinley Park for his concert with the Hubby - the hubby's first Parrothead concert!!!!) wrote the score as well as stars in it. Will Shriner directed it and half way through the movie
Ken Shriner (Scotty Baldwin) was in the movie as well.

Thank goodness we were four of eight people in the theatre. Bellowing out "Scotty" in the middle of the movie would have a made a stink in a more fuller movie theatre I think......

Highly recommend this movie if you are five years old (Rowan loved it!) or 99 years old. So cute.... So wholesome too.... and the music was the bomb.....

Afterwards we discovered a bike shop with people test riding bikes - that later got us in trouble (insert note from hubby... there is no "we" involved.)

At home we all curled up and READ. Natalie started "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" (a movie we had watched together the night before - well I attempted to watch in a coma on the couch - but we were all curled up watching it. Rowan was reading some starter books and I was reading "Devil in the White City." So well written... a breath of fresh air after trying to get through "Demons and Angels" as well as "Davinci Code (still can't get thru completely)." It's also a REALLY good book.

MONDAY - ah Monday - the last day of everyone's three day weekend (the middle of mine - I am off till Wednesday - I might forget what I do for a living). Today was grand. In addition to learning how to ride a bike without training wheels.....



and Natalie with the new super chick bike.....

and I anticipating the arrival of mine..... (big pout) Nat and I got our Pedicures, we spent time talking about Girl things AND spent some time picking out flowers for the backyard. I actually picked up a few at the nursery and put them on the deck tonight. As anyone who knows me knows - I am a horrible gardener..... I have a black thumb (as my hubby would say). Black for death that is....

We are all exhausted but happy and relaxed. Nat curled up with me a little while ago and mentioned how much fun this whole weekend was. IT was a very nice family weekend. I am looking forward to more this summer.

This picture says it all.... Rowan fell asleep mid bite of her after dinner snack. I think we will all sleep well tonight.

Oh - feeling a lil broke too. I planned and paid for our trip to the Dells, Planned and paid for a trip to Grand Haven AND made sure we were all "bike ready." We are planning on taking our bikes to these places as well as around town. So - back to work I will go.......