We're back & Weekend Wrap-Up!

We are officially back from vacation and back to reality people. Sad, I know! We had a WONDERFUL time in Florida with family and some friends-it actually felt like a vacation this time! Amazing the difference flying to your destination versus driving will make! I have several vacation related posts and LOTS of pictures coming soon, but first I thought I would update you and share some pictures {mostly Instagram} of what we have been doing since arriving back in Indiana! Sit back and relax...

Friday night did not go as planned. It ended up being totally okay though...still it was a little irritating. We planned to get dinner and then do some grocery shopping-you know, our normal date night routine. Well, first we went to Pizza Junction and it was PACKED with a long wait. Then we tried Subway because neither of us wanted greasy, unhealthy food (we were going for salads at Pizza Junction). Well wouldn't you know that Subway also had a line just about out the door AND they were not taking credit/debit cards. I'll just go on the record and say that we rarely carry cash. We are 98% debit people. So we left with only about a hour before the grocery store closed...obviously we ended up at McDonald's. Not our favorite at all, but it was food and we were hungry.

Louie has been SUPER happy since we are home. He was pretty lazy on Saturday with me! We did this pretty much all day...

I did make some cupcakes over the weekend, so I was not totally unproductive. These key lime cupcakes are delicious! So thankful my cousin Beth shared the recipe with me!

See? Lazy Saturday! :)

I ordered this D from GroopDealz (which is awesome!), but it was silver and we did not like it. Thankfully we had some red spray paint and fixed it right up. It's new home is in the living room on the shelves Dad made us for Christmas.

How cute is this? We watched several movies over the weekend too. Stephen wants to see The Avengers, but wanted to watch all the other Marvel movies first so we borrowed them from his brother and are almost through them all. Captain America is next and last!

This was actually Monday night, not over the weekend-so maybe this should be titled weekend wrap up and a Monday? Anyways, Louie was galloping around the backyard and looking oh so cute! On a side note, we love our chairs and enjoying spending evenings out back when it isn't 120*!

A beautiful double knock out opened over the weekend. These flowers bring me so much joy!

Our front flower bed has grown A LOT. We water these regularly...so our grass may be dead, but at least our flowers are thriving! Also, Miracle Grow flower food is like a miracle. I swear I can see the change overnight!

Yep, that would be our dead grass.

And Louie, just because. I am just realizing that maybe I take too many pictures of our dog? I swear I just can't help it!

We spent Monday evening installing a window unit AC in our bedroom. Hallelujah! Seriously, can you hear the angels singing?! Louie was a great observer from this little bed in the corner.

And that friends, is what a good nights sleep looks like! It has been so hot in our bedroom that we have actually been sleeping in the living room on an air mattress since before our vacation. I am not even kidding when I say how hot it was...apparently our air just doesn't flow upstairs well? Anyways, everywhere within a 200 mile radius was out of small AC's over the weekend but we got lucky and got one fresh off the delivery truck at Lowe's on Monday. Thankful doesn't even begin to describe how I felt about that!

I can say now that we slept wonderful last night with the AC, Louie included. In fact, I slept through my alarm and Stephen basically had to lift Louie up off his bed to wake him up this morning.

I almost forgot to include an update on the FL floods in this post. Thank you all for your prayers and well wishes for my FL family over the past couple of weeks. Thankfully no one was forced out of their home and the damage was kept to a minimum. Some people in the county lost everything if you can imagine that. We were able to drive around some of the worst hit areas last week while on vacation and it really is hard to believe unless you can see it in person. Imagine water up to the roof line of your house...that was the case for many families. Please continue to pray for the people who were affected and suffered loss as I am sure that dealing with the insurance companies will not be easy!

Thanks guys and see you tomorrow!