Our Weekend - The One with the Back Porch Cleaning and a Birthday Party

This weekend was a good one!  Friday evening we decided to grab Cracker Barrel veggies to-go and we had them at home followed by a movie night.  We showed The Sandlot to the kids for the very first time and they loved it so much!  It’s one of my all-time favorite movies ever so I’ve been counting down the days until the kids were old enough to understand and appreciate it.  I hadn’t seen it in several years but I could still quote a ton of it just like I could when I was a kid.  It’s such a classic.

After the kiddos went to bed, B and I watched a couple more episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale.  Goodness gracious, I can’t stop watching.  I do believe I could easily sit and watch an entire season all in one sitting if I had the time.  I’m so excited that season three is coming out in just a few weeks so we won’t have to wait too long for it after finishing season two.

Saturday morning B and I headed outside early to get started on cleaning off the back porch.  Every spring and fall we remove every single item including all of the furniture and we spray and scrub everything down to make it nice and shiny for the upcoming season.  Last fall when we did that we found tons of black widow spiders in all of the patio furniture, and unfortunately, it was much of the same this time.  Fortunately, there weren’t near as many as last time, but I was still mad that they were back.  Since we had so many again, B did a little bit of research online and he was able to find some stuff that he can put down out there that will hopefully get rid of them once and for all.  He put it down Saturday so fingers crossed we’re done with them.

We had to stop halfway through our cleaning to head to the soccer fields for Jacob’s game.  They lost again, 5-1.  Technically they don’t even keep score at this age, but B and I always do.  Haha.  They’ve had a rough season, but it was expected since our team is so young and little this time.

After soccer, we stopped by Chick-Fil-A for lunch, and then it was back home to finish cleaning off the porch.  We got everything completely swept off, hosed down, and put back in place.  No more cobwebs, no more dirt, AND NO MORE POLLEN!  Although, it’s been so thick this year we probably already have a new layer of it out there as we speak.  Ugggghhhh.

While I finished getting everything back on the porch, B started hanging some new shelving in our outdoor closet so we can keep all of our outdoor Christmas decorations in a better spot and keep the floor of the closet from being so cluttered.

By the time we finished, it was time to get ready for mass.  It was Palm Sunday, so we got our palms, and as I have since I was a little kid, I folded each of ours into the shapes of crosses.  The kids are always so impressed when I do this, and I hope to be able to teach them to do their own in a few more years.

After church, we headed to our favorite Mexican place in town.  It had been several weeks since we’d had tacos and margs so it was long overdue.  My whole extended family decided to join us – my momma and daddy, brother and his fam, grandmother, and several aunts and uncles – so we had a huge crowd.  My niece, Chyler, was all smiles and she was charming all of us all evening.  Olivia is just enamored with her, so she spent a lot of time kissing her little head and hugging her and cooing at her.  It was just the sweetest thing.

We stopped by DQ on the way home for Blizzards because we’re creatures of habit (but mostly because we love our DQ!) and then it was back home to get the kids in the bed and watch more of The Handmaids Tale.

Sunday morning we were awakened earlier than usual by weather alerts on our phones.  We knew there was a chance for severe weather and tornadoes so I had mentally prepared myself the evening before.  We got up pretty quickly, prepared our safe place, and then ate breakfast earlier than usual so we’d be ready in case we had to hide out in the closet.  Around 9 things started picking up and the tornado sirens went off  at our house, but the meteorologist on our local station said that it was for rotation just west of our viewing area.  Whew.  Fortunately, the storms blew through quickly and all we had at our house was a ton of rain and some strong winds.  I was so thankful that it was quick and waaaay less stressful this time.    

By noon it had all blown past us, so we were able to head out for some lunch and errands.  My MIL and step-FIL didn’t cook Sunday so we grabbed some burgers at Five Guys and then we ran to Lowe’s to grab some flowers and plants and some Snake Away since we had a four foot long visitor in our back yard earlier this week.  If you missed my Instagram Stories, just be glad, because you wouldn’t have wanted to see it anyway.  Gaaaahhhh.  It was disgusting and I never want to set foot outside again.

Jacob had an outdoor birthday party to attend at 2, so he and I headed to the park for that in the afternoon.  The party was a Nerf themed party, so all of the kids brought their own Nerf guns and battled each other.  After battle, there was cake and other snacks, and then they all did a few indoor activities and then some more outdoor battles.  I hung out and chatted with the other moms and dads while the kiddos played, and then it was time to head back home when the party was over.

The rest of the afternoon was spent playing out in the back yard (it turned out to be a gorgeous day after that bad weather!) and preparing for Monday, and then we had Sunday dinner at my parents’ house with the whole fam.  B was super stoked about Game of Thrones, so we (and by we I mean him – haha – I just sat with him and scrolled through IG) stayed up watching that Sunday evening and then it was time for bed!

Happy Monday, y’all!  I have my stress test at the cardiologist all day today, so please say a quick prayer that the results are normal and healthy!

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