Weekend Recap 5/3-5/5

Another weekend has flown by at lightening speed and I am left sulking on my way to work that its all gone. (At least I'm assuming so. I'm writing this Sunday night and scheduling it for the morning. Who knows, I could be sunshine and rainbows.)
Now that the sun is out and temperatures are up, I'm finding it harder to get to work on Monday mornings. I just want to go out and play!
Friday afternoon started out though, with not any playing at all. As a volunteer coach it's not required for me to help out at high school meets, but seeing as I would eventually like to get a paid coaching job in this district or out, the more I help out hopefully the better.
It was a hand timed meet; I worked at the finish line writing down the times with some of my middle school-ers running the times over to be announced.

Sounds easy enough.

And I mean it was. But  I'm pretty sure that's because I'm a teacher.
There was a lot of multi-tasking. It was a 5 team meet and half of the timers where high-school-ers. So sometimes the  times didn't match up with places, or just no times at all.

And then the computer that was printing out the events got coffee spilled on it. So up in the botth they weren't really in a place to figure out places, and I didn't have the official sheets left, just the tiny lists of every runner in each event not split into heats...

So I was taking down times, scanning sometimes 8 sheets of results and figuring out places, making columns and lines to organize the tiny printouts, and organizing my middle school runners.
All at the same time.
 Go-go multi-tasking super-powers!


Thank goodness Dave came with a huge ice coffee for me, and then stuck around and directed high-school-ers that wanted to ask me where to check in for their even away from harms way.
It was also pretty nice to have some of my most reliable kids hanging around and helping me out.

After we left the meet at 8:30 PM (WOOF!) we headed to our local Greek Pizza place where the owners are literally Greek. They were close to closing but we're regulars so they sat down and ate their dinner with us with the whole place to ourselves. Let me tell you that pizza hit the spot!

The next morning we went on a hike up a small mountain with my Mom, Dad, and their dog Molly.

But before we left, Bruin and Linus got some sun.

Oh and just in case you don't follow me in on Instagram or Twitter, while I'm showing photos of my pets, here are a couple of Bruin giving Linus his nightly bath on last Monday.

You're welcome. 

Back to this weekend.

There's nothing to make you feel like you need to get into shape like your Mom kicking your butt up a mountain. Not that she's out of shape. She's one of those crazy runners that stays in amazing shape even after having 4 kids.
Don't hate her because she's beautiful.

It was pretty steep and quick, but was fine once we got into  the swing of things.

We decided not to summit since we were pretty ready for lunch around 1. But we did find a place with a nice view to eat at.

Here's Dave with apparently a  turtle/giraffe neck, nom-nom-noming on his sandwich.

I don't have any photos of my parents or their dog because I took a nap while everyone else ate.
Don't worry, Dave got photos of that. 

Bruin is my cuddle-buddy even at the top of a mountain.

This was right before I rolled onto my side and gave a few snores. It's fine. Pine needles were really meant to be nature's pillow.

 That would be Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. (We were hiking in Maine.) Still snow. To think Dave wanted to hike/ski that this weekend. NO THANKS.

The descent was nice and we got to have some pretty good conversation, and watch the dogs spaz out on the trail together.

Here were our sweaty butts when we were done.

Dave wet my bandana in a brook to cool me off. It was perfect.

 On the way home we stopped for Ice Cream. We're those people that get vanilla ice cream with a dog bone on it for our dog.
Bruin deserves to be completely spoiled before we start having kids in a few years and he's not the only one we take hiking.

 Another shot of Bruin getting it done.

When we got home, we were pooped. We took showers, poured some boxed wine into juice glasses and caught up on our "Thursday" shows on Hulu. Pretty awesome.

Sunday was pretty relaxed. Dave showed off how handy he was when he took off the dog bed cover to get washed, realized the foam was falling out, and patched it with some old pants. 

Good as new!

Sunday afternoon we also decided it was about time to hang up the twine that the Morning Glories and Moon Flowers will *hopefully* climb up on our front porch/awning.

 

We have had mixed luck with gardening, so we're hoping this project will work out. Or else we're just those young kids with the strong on the front of their house.

 Dave put in the nails and tied the knots because I get all wobbly when I get onto ladders.

 We of course didn't plan ahead for the actual planting of the seeds, because we forgot to soak them ahead of time. So I guess they will be going in tomorrow.

If we remember them.
Or the cat doesn't go fishing and eat them all while we're at work.
That would be some weird poop in the litter box.

To end the weekend, Dave and I needed to go grocery shopping.
Now we've been both trying to think of ways to eat healthier. We did some research on some different ways to cleanse and get a little more natural and realized that we actually have a lot of sugar in our diets.

So for two weeks we are going to eat "clean" and do a "No Sugar Challenge". This means nothing with added sugars and if they have sugars are pretty low.
Lots of smoothies, salads, and overall, actually, fresh deliciousness.

We'll see how this goes...

This is what the check-out looked like. So many vegetable bags! So much money!

But I think it will be nice to get ourselves back on track and not have sugary stuff every day after every meal.

And when we got home from shopping?
Well we kind of had a "last meal" of sorts.
We did have some frozen Chinese food and Ben and Jerry's in that cart, and we did eat it all. We're going to be good for two weeks, so we figured our body will appreciate it more if we had Chinese and ice cream right?

We finished the night with me updating the blog, Saturday Night Live on Hulu, and getting some grading in the grade-book.

I will keep you updated on the flowers and the sugar-free eating.
I wouldn't want to keep you up at night wondering if I've broken down and eaten an Oreo or not.

Hope your weekend was as eventful as me sleeping on a small mountain and buying some kale in bulk!

Stay Awkward, 
Tricia

I'm Over Here

No need to call the missing persons unit.

I know where I am.

Er, well, at least Dave and the GPS do.

All I know is that I'm at a quiet spot of a huge lake, there are some trees, rocks, a huge "cabin", and all of my people.

I've been too busy relaxing and spazzing out with my sisters to take out my big girl camera, but at least we have cell phones.

Look: trees, lake, and rocks.

I have arrived and family vacation has already started. Got here last night, and we don't have to leave until next Saturday.

Um, booyeah.

My biggest fans need not worry. I clearly have wireless. I shall be posting. You just may not care/get super jealous of my awesome family vacay.

I mean, let's just take last night for example.

It was 9 PM, I was up to my belly button in lake, watching Bruin paddle around in circles, and making small talk with the Sarge about how cool it is when your kids grow up into adults, the merits of taking time out for yourself to go on vacation, and how professional athletes are just so much bigger than the rest of us.

This has gotta be the good life.

Sunny Days By the Water With Good People

So I had a wonderful weekend.

My family is old friends with another family whom we visit on their beautiful property on a lake every year. We've been cut short to only a long weekend with them since we're all getting older, but the time is still well worth it.

I never got to ask for permission to post pictures of the other family so any pictures you will see of them will be of the back of their heads or feet  or whatever.

And if you still figure out who they are, then, well stop being such a creep.

My mom told me she was sick of seeing pictures of the dog and Dave. So I only took a couple pictures of Dave. I accidentally on purpose took a lot more of the dog. Whoops.

Sister N often has a hard time composing herself

The men played manly games, like tossing strings and balls onto poles.

Sister S and her BF having fun on the beach.

Oh gosh.

Sister N is not helping Sister S. It's called tickling.

Bruin clearly hates attention.

Dear L.L. Bean and Dog Fancy, I am my dog's acting modeling agent. You can contact me via my email. We accept payment in cash, dog treats, and goldfish. Love, ME.

Waiting.

Use those webbed feet.

Polar bear.

Yes, I only blew up the pictures of my dog playing fetch. SO SUE ME.

Hand stand competitions.

Don't fall.

Kerplunk

 

 

 

 

Soooo this is my sister's dog.

She never stands still enough for me to take a picture.

Ever

Ladies

We also went tubing.

They had something to prove.

And they did.

Until one of them fell off.

Nothing in this photo other than pure lovelyness.

 Warning: A few of the following photos are my attempt at being artistic.

Spiderwebish

Can you find the content bear?

There he is!

Probably my favorite type of chair ever.

Especially during sunset.

The two newly betrothed individuals going for a romantic paddle.

I'm not going to sit here and lie to you by telling you that this isn't one of my favorite photos from the weekend. This also explains why it's bigger than all of the other ones. Well, other than those ones of Bruin of course.

Lounging at it's best.

 So the most wonderful hostest with the mostest set up some games for us on Saturday. It was Minute to Win it: Camp style.

I now know interesting information about my family members.

 

 Sister N can balance 4 dice on a Popsicle stick.

And Sister E can knock over 6 waterbottles with pantyhose on her head.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

The Sarge I insisted getting a picture of the dogs begging.

I mean they're all cute I guess.

When the dogs weren't out frolicking they had their own little room in the front of the cabin.

The grass is always greener.

So that's it. Non-suprisingly it was a blast.

The bittersweet part about this trip was that as it was at the end of July, it in a way signified the "beginning of the end". Granted my family has rented a week at a cabin on another lake which we will be enjoying the week right before I go back to school, but I'll be doing work here, there and everywhere for the beginning of school.

So get ready for a little less talk about running around in the grass barefoot and a little more talk about classrooms and shopping for grown-up "SLACKS" to head back to school in.

Until then, I think I'm going to head to the gym, come home and pretend the fan is a little bit of a lake breeze.