Weekend Wrap-Up in Pictures!

Happy day after Monday, y'all! We had a great weekend full of house projects and some time with family, too. Friday night we kicked off the start of the weekend with a birthday dinner for our niece's at El Mex in our town. Let me just say this: we LOVE El Mex. If you ever come to visit us, you are guaranteed a trip there! Now, on with the update:

This was just as we were walking out the door Friday night.

Ainsley's birthday was the last week in September and Emma's birthday was just last week. They both got their birthday gifts from us on Friday night. The pillow that Ainsley is holding below was made from a PJ set of hers that she outgrew. This child LOVES penguins and did not want to get rid of the PJs, so I made it into a cute little pillow that she can cuddle and sleep with whenever she wants. I believe she liked it. Agreed?

I'd say her smile says it all. I think the pillow was a hit!

So, birthday's at El Mez are pretty embarrassing. They put a sombrero on you and sing. But that's not all they do! They also smear whipped cream on your face the entire time they are singing. For some reason these girls just love it!

Emma is about to be whipped creamed!

And it begins!

The finished product! :)

Friday night Lauren from church joined me for a chick flick. We ran into her family at El Mez and the plan developed from there. We wanted to get Bridesmaids to watch, but our RedBox did not have it. We settled on Something Borrowed. It was nice to have her home from college this weekend and to get in some girl time! Stephen watched the movie with us too, but he did fall asleep a couple of times. Have you seen that movie? I thought it was okay...not sure it is one I want to purchase though!

Saturday we planned on planting all our bulbs for spring flowers. We had a lot of bulbs to plant! 165, actually. I started working with Louie as my sidekick while Stephen ran some errands in town. Once we was back we both worked on this project. In the end we did not get them all planted, but I think we did pretty good.

Hopefully next Spring this flower bed:

will be blooming beautifully with many different kinds and colors of tulips. I am praying!

We also planted many around the historic sign in our front yard, and worked on re-painting the wording on the sign:

AND I bought a new paint pen to add our name to the sign. Hopefully next weekend I can work on that!

Last week the above tree had changed colors at the very top, but this weekend it changed completely. I think it is just beautiful! I don't mind the orange/yellow glow it casts to rooms inside our house either :)

Louie was our supervisor while we worked. Doesn't he look content?

He also liked playing in the leaves! I guess when he got tired of laying he would decide to frolic and play. So cute!

I love his tongue out on this one!

This is probably my favorite picture of the weekend. Or maybe my favorite picture ever taken of him!

After planting we showered and got ready to head out for our weekly grocery shopping. While I was waiting on Stephen (I think he was walking Louie) I snapped a picture of me and the pretty flowers the hubs got me for our first anniversary. I want to remember these, so this is my documentation!

Before we left we stopped to snap a few family pictures (maybe one for our 2011 Christmas card?) with the beautiful trees and leaves:

Sunday we went to church and taught our first Sunday of Sunday School. We are teaching 5th and 6th grade, so it should be exciting. I know I am looking forward to it. We also had nursery duty during service, so we had a morning full of sweet kiddos on Sunday!

Sunday evening we went back to El Mez, well it's another name but it is owned by the same people...for a great dinner with Stephen's boss and co-workers plus their wives. After dinner we all went to Eagles Theater to see Courageous. Stephen's boss Mark was nice enough to cover dinner and our movie tickets-he had seem the movie the prior week and felt that strongly about all of us seeing it. Let me tell you, the movie did not disappoint. I would recommend it to anyone, regardless of if you have children or not. We laughed and we cried; it was so good! Have you seen it or heard great things about it? They do have a FB page for the movie if you want to check it out!

Lastly, I wanted to share with you the gift that my boss brought me on Friday:

Isn't it just the cutest and sweetest pumpkin? I LOVE it!

Tomorrow morning I will be dropping Louie off at the Vet for round 2 of his heartworm treatments. Please say a prayer for him and for us! If any of you have gone through this with your dogs, feel free to let me know how round 2 went. We would appreciate it! I am praying that since he handled the first round well that this one should not be much different, but you never know. Prayers appreciated. Thanks! :)

Hope everyone has a terrific Tuesday!