Happy new week Friends!
I'm late with this post as we were at the lake yesterday. We spent the holiday weekend there with Matt's folks. For those of you in the states that celebrated I hope you had a lovely nice long weekend too.
I always think of Labor Day as the end of summer... and I can't believe how fast the summer has been wrapping up. My in-law's will soon be headed back to AZ. So we are treasuring the visits we have with them while they are still here. We spent time doing some work and clean up on the property. We got out on one nice day and went on the pontoon. But the rest of the weekend it either rained or was soggy or cooler out. So we watched some movies & shows, played games and visited lots. The usual wonderful time there. :) On the drive there and back we saw several Autumn moments of leaves that had already turned Fall colors here and there. In just a few weeks it will start getting very colorful up here. Yay! 🍁
This morning I was getting things back in order and doing laundry from the weekend. I got my workout in and then had some lunch with my sweet Matty mine. We had our unofficial anniversary (the legal one) from the courthouse a few days back on the 4th. If you'd like to read that story click here. But what is to me our official anniversary, the 14th, as it's when we had the ceremony is coming up so soon already! It will be 2 years married and 5 together already. Time sure does fly when you're having fun!! ❤️
THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:
ON THE BREAKFAST PLATE THIS MORNING:
I have fully been into hot coffee mode now - so had my protein hot coffee with chobani creamer. A piece of whole wheat toast with a little spiced apple butter. (so good!)
ON MY TO DO LIST THIS WEEK:
Matt did a costco instacart but we will need to get a few more groceries, I have an appt, need to make some appts, time with my Mom, hospice work
THINKING ABOUT:
Excited that football starts this week! Go Pack Go! 💚💛
Also, I'm going to start doing some cleaning and decorating for Fall this week and weekend. I'm so excited it's finally here!! 🎃
THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY:
the smell of Autumn when I pull out the holiday bins and open one and a candle or sachet is in there that has that spiced autumn cinnamon smell
CURRENTLY READING
ON THE TV TODAY:
Big Brother (& still old seasons too), Ted Lasso, I finished Sandition, we still haven't got back to House of Dragon yet, at the lake we started watching Ride or Die series on Prime and we really like it (it has Hannah Waddingham from Ted Lasso in it and Ocatavia Spencer) I need to look up what new Fall shows will be coming out too
ON THE MENU THIS WEEK:
MONDAY - sesame ginger chicken crumbles(costco) over rice with veggie spring rolls
TUESDAY - breakfast for dinner (we have eggs & sausage to use up)
WEDNESDAY - salad with roasted chicken mixed in and balsamic vinaigrette
THURSDAY - leftovers (or something else if we get groceries before then)
FRIDAY - out for dinner?
TO RELAX THIS WEEK I WILL:
working on holiday and other gift projects
TIPS OR SOMETHING TO SHARE:
FROM THE CAMERA:
last week I made a favorite family recipe that's a version of beef stroganoff (my folks always made it for special occasions) - I will share the recipe soon
on one of our walks we noticed they had the goats in the park again helping take care of it so they don't have to mow so much
last week I talked about my Mom getting a new little Christmas tree for their apt this year and I shared that I had gotten some cute Fall things to make it an Autumn tree and several asked for photos so here they are :)
I haven't really started to put out my Fall decorations yet but I have some new ones I've accumulated and one was this cute ghost with glasses. I love that it's kind of a nerdy ghost. Lol I put it on my bookshelf because isn't that probably where a nerdy ghost would want to live?
I did make some fun treats for the holiday weekend...including puppy chow (or some call them muddy buddies) and some monster cookies. Will share these recipes soon as well.
Last week we went to Mr & Mrs C's youngest daugther's volleyball game. We love to go watch and feel all the Fall back to school vibes. And to cheer on their daughter and visit with the C's Go Hawks! 💙
There was such Fall vibes out on the water over the weekend. There were moments of fallen leaves on the lake (love how clear ten mile lake is - you can see in the floating leaf photo with the rocks below it) And there were some trees around the lake starting to turn color already.
For fun I had picked up a cute string of Fall lights for Matt's Mom that she hung in the dining room window and it's on a timer so it came on each night. (& I brought Matt's Dad some caramel apple turtles I bought and he said they were delish!)