Blazing Hot Weekend

This weekend was another relaxed and laid back weekend.  Friday evening B had a tennis match so I stayed home with the kiddos.  It would have been nice to go watch him play, but it was 99 degrees outside (literally) so we decided to forego the match for the air conditioning and a little bit of baking.  We made Mel's Blueberry Lemon Sour Cream Muffins to have for breakfast Saturday and Sunday and they definitely didn’t disappoint!

B picked up some Bojangles on the way home and I put the kiddos down for bed so we were able to eat our chicken and biscuits in peace, just the two of us.  After dinner we kicked back on the couch and watched Age of Adeline.  That movie was fantastic, you guys!  Fantastic.  If you haven’t seen it do yourself a favor and check it out. 

Saturday morning we made some eggs and bacon to go along with our muffins and then we hung out around the house.  The babies watched some cartoons, B did some bill paying and catching up on some household stuff, and I worked on cleaning out some more of the files in my office.  It was too hot to go anywhere or spend any time outside, so we didn’t even leave until it was time to go to church.

We went to church at 5:30 and then had dinner with my parents at our favorite BBQ place, and on the way home we stopped by DQ to let the kids get some mini Blizzards for dessert.

While walking through the parking lot of the BBQ place, Olivia bent down and picked up a pebble from the ground.  She and Jacob love rocks and they are constantly picking them up and bringing them home to add to their collection so when my mom told me, “I just want you to know that Olivia picked up a pebble and she wants to bring it in the car” I didn’t think anything of it.

Well thank goodness she had told us because on the short drive to DQ Brian heard Olivia say, “The rock is in my nose.”  When I realized what was going on I whipped around in my seat and she was sticking her little finger up her nose and then she said it again.  “The rock is in my nose.”  I told B to floor it and get us parked ASAP.  When we pulled in, B and I both jumped out and ran over to her.  B reached her before I did and he looked up in there and said, “No, there’s no rock in there.”  So I pushed him out of the way and tilted her head back to look. 

Oh, there was a rock in there.  It was way in there. 

So far that you could barely see it, let alone tell that it was a rock.

I look at B and said, "Well, it looks like we'll be spending our Saturday evening in the ER.” 

Fortunately I was wrong.  I pinched her good nostril closed with my finger and then I told her to blow as hard as she could.  However, her first instinct was to suck so I started screaming, “Noooo!”  Then I told her to blow like she was blowing her nose.  She did it and the pebble came down just enough for me to peel her nostril back and pull it out.  Lawd have mercy, I think I grew 20 grey hairs during the five minute ordeal.  A) Thank goodness my mom had told me that she had the rock, and B) thank goodness Brian had heard her say that she put it in her nose.  Who knows what would have happened if neither of those things had occurred.  As my mom said when I immediately called her to tell her what had happened, “All’s well that ends well.”

We went ahead with the Blizzard buying and then headed home to eat them.  Then B and I put the babies down for bed and watched one of our old favorite movies, This is 40.  That movie just cracks me up.  I heart Paul Rudd so much.

Sunday we hung around the house in the morning and then we had Five Guys for lunch.  After lunch, we ran to Lowe’s where we finally bought some paint for Jacob’s big boy room.  You may remember this post that I did forever ago… yep, we’re finally just now getting started.

After Lowe’s we took the kids to one of our favorite playgrounds only to find that they had redone the whole thing.  It’s now more little kid friendly and there’s a whole lot more to do, so we were all excited.  We let the kids play for a few minutes and then we walked over to the baseball fields to watch our nephew play in his All Stars game.  It was blazing hot again so we sweated and bought some Kona Ices to keep cool.  We didn’t get to stay for the whole game because we had to leave to get home for Olivia’s nap, but we did get to stay for about half of the game and we got to see our nephew hit two triples so that was cool.  They ended up winning the game, so now they get to go to the finals this week.  Exciting!

We ended Sunday with spaghetti and bread and salad and wine and good music at my parents’ house.  My parents had gotten the kids their very own dry erase boards with sets of markers and they were so excited.  Maybe a little too excited...

As we were all sitting around the dinner table, the kids took off to draw on their boards and a few minutes later I heard my brother say, "Ummmm, your kids look like Jackson Pollock paintings."  I ran into the living room and this is what I saw:

OMG.  It was everywhere.  Olivia had even "painted" her toenails with the markers.  Sigh... never a dull moment!  But hey, it opened up the opportunity to snap some crazy pics to show her future husband!  She even compared her body art to her uncle's.  Hehe.

  

It was a great weekend!  And it also felt long for some reason which never happens!

Happy work week, everybody!

*Linking up with B Loved Boston for Weekending.