Weekend Round-Up

This was an exceptionally long weekend (thank you holiday!) and we did our best to pack in as much fun as possible.
Friday, Rock Boy and Shopaholic hosted us all for a casual dinner to kick off our weekend. Mathlete was headed out of town for his adrenaline powered birthday celebration but stopped by for dinner first.

Our friends sure know how to make some cute kids, right? On top of all the cuteness, we experienced a rare thing: a cheeseless pizza! No one is sure how it happened (it’s like seeing an albino squirrel or something) but Rock Boy came home with a box full of this

Someone was not amused.

After dinner, the kids played while the adults tried to avoid them. Just kidding…the adults were there but doing more relaxing than playing.
Saturday, I took H to a playdate with some of her new friends from her new school (she switched schools last week). As you can imagine when preschool aged girls are involved, there was a lot of princess playing

And dancing…

The rest of the day was spent finishing up my yarn wreath.
Sunday was our September dinner club! I had the appetizer course so I had scoured the interwebs to find something new to make. The Pioneer Woman was happy to help out with recipes for Olive Cheese Bread and Cheddar Puffs.
Now, Olive Cheese bread is divine but it is anything but healthy so be warned. I mean how can anything with these ingredients be healthy

Yes, that is an entire stick of butter you see in the picture. I used the.whole.thing. First, I chopped up all my olives though (sorry for any dinner club readers…I skimped and went canned/jarred vs. the olive bar this go around)

Then, we stirred all of the yumminess together and spread it onto some delicious fresh bread.

The results…melty, salty, bready goodness

I made the cheddar puffs too but didn’t take a single picture. Why? My real life cooking images weren’t quite matching up to the inspiration that I was reading on the interwebs. So, I panicked that I was doing something wrong. In fact, I panicked so much that I made a third (back-up) appetizer that I knew I couldn’t screw up: spinach dip. In the end, I wasted some sour cream and spinach because the cheddar puffs were a huge hit! Seriously, make them…but make a double recipe because you’ll need it.

While the adults got dinner club started off the “right” way, the kids were down in the playroom having some fun.

Dinner time came quickly and we all chowed down. I know you come here for the pictures but prepare to be hungry with these

The girls all finished dinner up very quickly because they had other plans in mind…hot tub!

All that partying could only lead to one thing

The holiday was a blur of sleeping in, Pho (YAY!) and playtime. Lots of fun but very little pictures. Hope you enjoyed your weekend (and that you got an extra day like we did!)

This past weekend was pretty uneventful considering all of the build up to Hurricane Irene. We were blessed to be in a part of the state that experienced very minimal damage and loss of power. That didn’t stop us from preparing and planning for the worst just in case though!

Friday was a pretty uneventful day of errands and doctors appointments (for the kids!). We did take a little break to play some indoor hopscotch and hang with the kiddos.

H was excited to discover she had new shoes to wear!

Saturday was stimulate the economy day! In the morning, we went to the sporting goods store for the Loudoun soccer event. H is going to play soccer this fall so she needed supplies.

Then, we went to the outlet mall to look around. Sadly, we bought nothing! After naptime, it was the hurricane party over at Junior’s house. Nothing like riding out a hurricane with homemade pizza, good friends and wine.

There wasn’t much eating on the part of the boys though. XBox called…

Nothing can pull my little man away from his food though.

We had been so ready to be stuck in side all day Sunday that the beautiful weather came as quite a shock. Mathlete and H went out to play some lacrosse in the yard.

And I went shopping.

Somehow, despite not being home as much as planned, our playroom actually managed to look a lot like some kind of natural disaster had struck.

Oh, and I did manage to pick up a few items for some upcoming projects. I’ll let you try and guess what they are.

I hope everyone managed to stay safe during the recent East Coast storms. It seems that there are still plenty of people in our area (and East Coast in general) who are without power.