Weekend Recap: Wanna Play a Game?

You know how to tell you had a great weekend?  When you're laying in bed Sunday night and your hubby says out of the blue, "I feel like we just had a long 3 day weekend, " and you totally agree because you had such a productive fun-filled weekend.  Since we were out of town for almost all of 4th of July week, we decided to stick close to home and just hang out at the pool.

Friday I had to work in Birmingham and run some errands before I headed out of Montgomery, so I didn't get home until nearly 6 to a wonderful surprise.  My sweetie had mowed the yard AND cleaned the floors inside the house!  Talk about a great start to the weekend!  I am learning after nearly 3 years of marriage that it's the little things like doing my chores that make my heart go pitter patter....=)  We had some friends over for a cookout...steaks and taters and mushrooms and grilled corn....oh my!  Dinner was amazing to say the least.  We wanted to eat out by the pool, but Mother Nature had other plans, and decided that she wanted to continue with the daily monsoons we've had for the past 2 weeks which forced us inside for a game night instead which was no problemo!  After several rounds of Celebrity (many of which are still under protest) we decided that was enough.  We had no idea until everyone left, but it was already midnight! Guess time flies when you'r having fun!

Saturday we had a bunch of our softball friends over to celebrate our championship win with a cookout by the pool.  It was such a fun day of great fiends, delicious food, and a beautiful afternoon.  Of course we had to finish up the night with Celebrity (have I mentioned we LOVE this game!?!) and a few rounds of the Game of Things.

Sunday we worked....we spent the day cleaning out Eric's brother's old house they moved out of so we can rent it out.  It was a bit of an undertaking and I have a mountain of boxes of stuff to donate to a church yard sale, but we had it done in about 3 hours. We toyed with going to Montgomery to eat but decided we were both too tired to mess with that, so we grabbed Louie's and spent the evening vegging...it was perfect!

1. 1/2 of our new pool furniture....thank you Target and Academy summertime clearance sales! 

2. Eric's brisket that he cooked on Saturday.  It was his first attempt and it was a delicious success!

3. Summertime in Alabama means fresh tomatoes.  We've been given waaaaay more tomatoes that we know what to do with, so I used about 5 of them to make some fresh pico de gallo on Saturday.  It took me an hour to chop all of the tomatoes, onions, and peppers, but it was soooooo worth it!  I will take fresh pico over salsa from the store any day!  And it was amazing on my pulled pork sandwich!

4. One of my cards from The Game of Things.....what you you put?

5. Celebrity remnants.....\

6. A celebrity round in action.  I may have to share how to play sometime soon.  It's seriously one of the most fun games ever.  It combines catch phrase and charades in several rounds and will bring out the worst best in people.

7. Seriously...have you played this yet?  It's so much fun!

I am hoping that this week is a little less crazy that last week, but it's just Monday and only time will tell!