A Very Summer-like Weekend

I really didn't think it would be possible to top last weekend, but dagummit if this weekend didn't come out of no where as being seriously amazing.  The majority of it looked a little something like this:

Blue skies, sunshine, a pristine pool, my hubby, and my puppies (Peanut is by the planters in the shade on the left hand side of the picture). 

We spent a good bit of our weekend in this exact spot and it was wonderful! Just warm enough to lay out and get a tan, but not so hot that you feel like you're melting. Both of us briefly considered giving up our jobs and becoming teachers so we could do this all summer long before coming to our senses and remembering there is a reason neither of us are teachers.  We just aren't cut out for it. 

Our weekend started out a little late. I was worked late trying to finish up a grant so Eric took his dad fishing.  I'd been craving some sushi and we toyed with going out to get some but since I didn't leave the office until 5pm (I usually leave at 3:30) there was no way no how I was driving all the way home and then driving somewhere for dinner...especially on a Friday night. We opted for Fresh Market dinner which is one of my favorites. I worked there for a year in high school and crave their food from time to time.  We ended up with a sushi/pot sticker dinner that we had during a Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives marathon. We're just a couple of wild and crazy kids, I know.

Since we called it a night so early on Friday...cough 9:30 cough...we were bright eyed and bushy tailed at 6:30 AM on Saturday so we did the obvious and marched our happy butts over to 1220 Cafe for an amazingly delicious breakfast with the rest of the over 60 crowd.  Just kidding...we were there so early that we BEAT the over 60 crowd there. We continued our early morning adventure at Walmart to get pick up a few things for dinner and headed home so we could, wait for it.....mow the yard and run more errands! Long story short, we had the yard mowed, garden tilled, errands (to Montgomery) run, and everything for dinner done by noon. Talk about a super productive Saturday. Since we'd done everything that morning, the afternoon looked a lot like the picture above...with a few of our closest friends hanging out, too. We topped our night off with the Mayweather (or Mayflower according to one of our friends) vs. Pacquiao fight. Yes we were some of those people who got the Pay-Per-View fight, but we had several friends over to enjoy it with us.  To the untrained eye I thought Pacquiao won since he was clearly the aggressor and threw way more punches, but I guess in true boxing scoring, there's more emphasis on connecting on those punches which Mayweather did, so he won. Clearly boxing is not my thing, but I am pretty sure I'd go stand in a boxing ring and get punched one time for $180 million. Just one punch though. =)

My baby turtle friend Eric found when he was cleaning the pool...he may look large but his shell was barely bigger than a silver dollar.  I walked him down to the pond near our house and set him free!

Sunday was really just a continuation on Saturday.  After doing a little work, we vegged all afternoon at the pool with a few friends.  We finished up our evening with some fish tacos which have leapfrogged into the list of our Top 10 favorite meals. I have a feeling we will be indulging in them a whole lot this summer. Heck we might even get through half of the fish frozen in our freezer!

Clearly our weekend revolved around food: Clockwise from top left: 1) Friday night sushi dinner; 2) Saturday morning french toast breakfast...did I mention how delicious this was? 3) Saturday night Pasta Salad...I promise there were noodles buried under all of those veggies! 4) Sunday night melons from the Farmer's Market stand.  They were so good!

This week is going to be a bit of a doozy around here with finishing up grants and the dance recital this weekend.  I am just going to close my eyes and jump and see where I end up landing.