Memorial Day Weekend

It was a busy week for us, as always! Wednesday I had some of the ladies from the ward over and did a baby shower for my friend Dianne. This is her third baby (first girl), and she's due in June. It was nice to visit with the ladies and to enjoy all the girly little clothes. Boys clothes are cute, but girl clothes are so adorable!

It took most of Thursday to get everything put away, the house put back to normal, and the laundry done. I'm just glad we're done hosting things for a while! I decided I don't love hosting. So our house looks like it belongs to us again, and we decided to spend the weekend relaxing.

Well, I guess relaxing is a relative term. We made a list of things that would be good to get done, but decided if we didn't get them done, we wouldn't get upset over it. After laying 600 square feet of sod last weekend (along with laying the weed barrier and the mulch and the family dinner), we were ready for something more casual.

Friday we had a super casual day. Dave got home early, we worked in the yard a bit. Nothing major, just the basic mowing and weed whacking. When that was done we headed to the nursery to pick up some flowers to accent all the weed barrier we laid down.

For the front yard we got some pink Jupiter's Beard, drought resistant Blue bells, and some ground cover. For the back yard we got more Jupiter's Beard, Lamb's Ears, Hen's & Chicks, and Dragon's Blood. All are drought resistant, perennials and should spread out to eventually fill up the space we've planted them in so we won't have to weed around them (very important to me). Oh, and we got a few pansies, just because we've always gotten pansies since we moved in. They're not at all practical, but they're pretty.

We didn't end up planting them Friday, we decided to take the evening casual. We did a little Barbeque. Burgers, corn on the cob, and fruit. We went on a walk and ended up getting slushies at Sonic. They have a cherry lime-aid one that is just heavenly.

Saturday morning we woke up late, did a little shopping, and met our friend's the Terries for lunch. They were out visiting from Indiana, so we wanted to make sure we got to see them. We met in Orem at the Pizza Factory and indulged in some delicious pizza and breadsticks. It's the first real pizza I've eaten in months, and it was absolutely fabulous! I just love their breadsticks.

In the afternoon we planted everything and did some serious playing in the sprinklers. It was almost 80, and when we started watering the flowers, he just went crazy! So we let him enjoy himself. Sunday was full of more relaxing. Nothing fancy, just some well needed time with the family.

Monday we woke up early to did some shopping at Walmart and Lowes. When we got home I baked some bread, GF rolls, GF brownies (per Dave's request) and GF granola. We grilled some kabobs on the barbecue for a fabulous dinner, and called it a great holiday.