Date Night, Allergy Shots, and the Weekend

Hello and happy Monday once again!  We had a good weekend and I hope you did, too!  We didn’t have a whole lot going on this weekend out of the norm, but B and I did have a mid-week date night that I wanted to recap in this post along with the weekend!

Wednesday night we finally made it to see Beauty and the Beast, and it was just in time as it left the theaters this weekend.  Before heading to the theaters we went to one of our old favorite restaurants.  We hadn’t been in quite a while because we have been trying all of the new restaurants that our city has to offer, but this restaurant just moved and we wanted to check out their new digs.  Since we were seeing a 7 o’clock movie (because – school night!), we got to the restaurant at 5:45 and we were the only people there besides a couple of groups of elderly people.  #EarlyBirdSpecial

The atmosphere at the new place was great, though!  I was completely swooning over that wall of wine and I’m trying to figure out where exactly where we could put one of those in our house… hmmmm…

The menu had been slightly updated along with the location, but I ordered my trusty rusty filet with garlic mashed potatoes and a caesar salad and it did not disappoint.  The filet was excellent – prepared perfectly and I was able to eat every single last bite, not an ounce of fat on it.  After dinner B and I shared a slice of turtle cheesecake, and then it was time to head to the theater for the movie.

The movie was enamoring from start to finish.  I had gone in with such high expectations that I thought for sure I was going to be slightly disappointed, but nope, I loved every single thing about it.  I thought that they did the best job possible and I can’t imagine them having done anything different.  It was truly phenomenal, and that is quite a testament to them considering that the original is my favorite Disney movie of all time.  If you haven’t seen it, most definitely do!

If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen in my Insta stories that Friday was my very first allergy shot.  I was a bit nervous after all of the talk of Epi-Pens and allergic reactions, and then I was even more nervous when the nurse told me that I’m even more high risk due to the fact that I have asthma.  Fortunately, though, everything went smoothly and there were no issues.  As a matter of fact, I didn’t even have any itching or burning like some people do.  The shot didn’t remotely hurt (I’ve never been bothered by shots anyway, though) and my arm wasn’t even sore afterward.  So hopefully, everything will continue to be just fine, and hopefully my journey to being allergy-free is finally underway!

After I left the allergist, I had to stop in the middle of the road for this:

Yep, those are geese, just crossing the road.  Lol.

Friday the weather was rainy and cold… yes, cold in May.  I never thought that I would say that here in Georgia!  So anyway, we decided to stay in, order pizza, make some margs – because, Cinco de Mayo – and have a family movie night.  We watched The Secret Life of Pets and all of us loved it.  It was so cute and funny!

Saturday we spent the morning outside.  We have decided that we are going to put Jacob in a soccer league in the fall, so B is trying to get him prepped and ready for it.  He bought a couple of pop-up goals on Amazon this past week and he set them up in the back yard and played with Jacob.  So far from the looks of it, we are thinking that he has the potential to be a pretty good little soccer player.  Get ready, world… Lindsay is about to officially be a soccer mom!  Ha!

I spent Saturday afternoon lounging in the back yard and finishing up my Lauren Graham book.  It was so cute… I could not love her more!  And the book got me super excited for the Gilmore Girls reboot.  No, we haven’t seen it yet… we are still only in season six of the original series.

Toward the end of my lazy-fest, B came out in the back yard and asked me if I wanted to see a turtle that had somehow made its way to our garage.  I declined as I have seen and played with many turtles in my day (my little bro used to bring them home all the time) and I went back to my reading.  A few minutes later B came back out and told me how the turtle had snapped at him when he tried to move him and when he held up his hands to show how big it was, I was like, WHAT?!  It was waaaay bigger than I had imagined.  I had pictured a turtle about the size of an adult’s hand, but this one was probably ten inches long and almost as big around. 

I hopped up and went to look at it and it was definitely not what I had imagined.  This thing was filthy and it looked positively ancient.  We decided to leave him in the garage and let him find his own way out, and sure enough, when we left for church an hour and a half later he was long gone.  Which is odd since he’s a turtle and turtles are super slow.  We still have no idea where he even came from as we don’t have any lakes or creeks in our neighborhood.  He must have traveled a long way to end up on our doorstep!

After turtle watching, I headed upstairs to get ready and to play with my new pom pom sandals that arrived in the mail that morning!  My mom and dad had gotten them for me for my birthday, but they run really large and I had to exchange them for a smaller size.  The smaller size fit perfectly so they are finally keepers and they are finally mine!  I cannot wait to wear those pretties at the beach in just a few weeks!

Saturday evening was church and dinner at our favorite BBQ place and then we watched a couple more episodes of GG before calling it a night.

Sunday morning B headed to the acute care place because he thought that he might possibly have pink-eye.  The doc told him that it was not pink-eye yet, but that it was a viral cold in his eye that would have likely turned into pink-eye if he hadn’t gone to have it treated.  Poor B… he’s always getting all of the childhood illnesses.  Lol.

Meanwhile, the kids and I stayed home.  I cleaned out a couple of drawers that are constantly cluttered, and snapped a picture of the absurd amount of sunglasses that our kids have.  Haha.  Won’t be needing to buy any of those for a while! 

Sunday afternoon was lunch at my MIL’s house.  We haven’t had lunch with them in three weeks because they have had other things going on and have been out of town, so it was nice to finally be back to our usual routine.  The kiddos played in the garden and I checked out all of the fun things that they’re growing this year – blueberries, strawberries, okra, habanero peppers, jalapeno peppers, tomatoes, squash, and lettuce are planted so far – and they’ll also be planting green beans, watermelon, and cucumbers within the next week or so.

Olivia was a little scavenger and she kept picking strawberries (unripe ones and all) and eating them right there on the spot.  She also kept eating the stems which was SO WEIRD and it was driving me crazy.  Just look at that last little picture of her… that face says it all… little stinker.

She was also a wild one on Sunday and kept being extremely disobedient, so she landed herself in timeout right there in the back yard.  This is her pouty leave-me-alone-I’m-in-timeout face.  Lol.  She drives me up the wall, but I sure do love her.  I’m convinced that life would be utterly boring without her.

Sunday evening, instead of heading to my parents’ house for our usual Sunday dinner, we headed to an old train depot turned party venue for my cousin’s surprise 40th birthday party.  We had dinner and cake, the kids ran wild, and a good time was had by all.  Seriously, how cute is this place?!

All in all, another great weekend in the books!

Enjoy your week!

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