Memorial Day Weekend 2010

Oh what perrrfect weather we have had for our long weekend thus far! And have we ever taken advantage of it! On Friday night Jessica and I went downtown to meet the Toney's for Angie's 35th b-day celebration at the Rathskellar. It's been a long time since I've been down to the "Skellar" - it brought back a lot of fun memories! Then on Saturday we headed to the Haute and hung out with mom, dad and grandma for a while before going over to Aunt Kate's for Leah and Alice's graduation party. They recently put in a pool and a pool house - both of which are absolutely fabulous. Behind the pool there is a view of the field and trees, and absolutely nothing. It just feels so private and remote - I LOVE it! The girls had a great time and swam the entire time we were there. Then today we woke up and pretty quickly headed over to our pool. We were there for a few hours while the race was going on (b/c I just don't really care about the race!). I burned despite the 30 sunblock I used, but the girls and Barclay were unscathed. It was sunny and beautiful outside. Afterwards we changed clothes and headed down to the zoo to see the new Cheatah exhibit. It was HOT - that's really the only way to describe it. We couldn't stay long b/c we were over heating! The Cheatah's were cool, though, and we can cross that off our list of "need to sees". Then we picked up food to throw on the grill and had Betty and Peter over for a cook out on the back porch. Tomorrow I have big plans of spending the day at the pool again - provided it doesn't rain! Ah, how I love summer!

Oh yes Oh yes it's Spring Time!

So admittedly I've been a bit of a blog slacker lately! It's soooo hard to find the time for posts, though I do love the blog so I'm committed to keeping it up. Some day I'm going to print the whole darn thing and save it for the kiddos when they get older. Let's see...what have we been up to? On April 24th Barclay and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary with a date night and had dinner at Eddie Merlots. It's a fabulous steak house here in town - we go there every so often for big nights.

One day a couple of weeks ago we took the girls to Traders Point Creamery to check things out. It's out on the NW side of town. It's basically a little farm. The restaurant is in the loft of an old barn. They have yummy ice cream, cheeses, yogurt, etc....that they sell at the restaurant and in local grocery stores. The food is all organic - it was pretty yummy. After we ate we let the girls wander around and visit the cows and chickens. They do love the animaleees.

Last week we set the kiddie pool up for the first time. We had a few days in the 80s when it was warm enough to use it, but now it's chilly again. Hopefully this is our last burst of chilly weather and we'll be back in the heat soon! The girls wouldn't hold still long enough for me to get a picture, but I tried :)

Other than that, we've been busy with work work work. Both around the house and at the offices. We've gotten some boards replaced on the house, cleaned gutters, laid mulch, weeded like crazy people, trimmed bushes, planted flowers, mowed a million times, etc etc. Spring is usually a pretty high maintenance time with our yard. And work has been absolutely c.r.a.z.y. for both of us. And I mean CRAZY! A girl needs a break! Today Barclay got 12 bottles of wine in the mail from one of his clients. That helped him feel a bit better about his schedule! Party at our house this weekend - or at least Abbie's coming on Friday and Saturday. We can say goodbye to a couple of those bottles!