Photos from the weekend

Oh happy Monday, my friends.

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I know there are some of you heading back to work and school today after a glorious holiday break. Bummer, right? Although I suppose it's all in how you look at it, as with many things. Only a small handful of my co-workers were in the office with me last Thursday and Friday, but today the whole gang will be back. To everything there is a season, and today it's back to work!

 

Speaking of seasons, we had sunshine this wintery weekend...

 

Doug and I met some friends for dinner on Friday night and tried a {new to us} restaurant in Scottsdale called Veneto's. Oh.My.Yummy! The food was delicious, and company was awesome. I had a shrimp ravioli dish and a couple of glasses of chianti. Part two of the evening included Doug and I coming home and sitting outside on our patio for another glass of wine. Part three of that was Saturday morning I woke up not feeling so great. One wine over the line, if you will. ~sigh~ Good times, my friends, good times...

Ah, but this weekend was not for wimps! I had a ton of stuff to do - like preparations for my sister-in-law's baby shower in California this weekend...

 

Saturday evening we headed out to Doug's dad's for dinner and we enjoyed a lovely evening with my in-laws. Dang you guys, they are such awesome people! I'm still practicing with my mom's yeast roll recipe, and I think I've just about got it down. This was my fifth try and it's true what they say - practice does make perfect {so be careful what you practice}.

 

It was really cool that my SIL {hi Meta} made her mom's bread pudding recipe {yum!} and I loved that she referred to my bread as "Marti's rolls." {ugh! I miss my mom!!!}

A sweet friend of my father-in-law's had sent a large tray of cookies for us to divvy up. Yummy treats and such beautiful presentation.

More busy work yesterday, but a break in the afternoon for some chili-cheese-fries, a cold beer and a football play-off game. I watched the game for as long as it took to polish off the plate of fries with Doug, and then I was off and running. I had a little shopping to do {fun! missed you, Carrie!} then back home for laundry and more baby shower prep. 

 

Sheesh - that was a weekend of some heavy food and a bit of alcohol. No wonder my body is dragging this morning! Whiskers' expression sums it up...

Alight, my friends. It's time for me to hit the yoga mat and prepare for the day ahead. I wonder what's in the cards for me today... I know it's not shrimp ravioli with cream sauce, Christmas cookies, Marti's rolls, PJ's bread pudding, and chili cheese fries. Or chianti or cold beer.

Hoping for willpower to avoid the work kitchen donuts this morning...

 

Have an awesome week, everyone!

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