A few highlights from the weekend!

Friday

  • Seeing my family for a chili dinner.
  • Seeing a pretty sunset.
  • My snis surprising me with a stuffed animal that looks just like Data (and even has a tie like he used to wear!).

Saturday

  • Vegan donuts for breakfast.
  • Spending most of the day with my snister and her family.
  • A beautiful custom portrait of the cats arriving while we were gone.
  • Going to a family friend’s warehouse and touring it for the first time.
  • Kittens at the warehouse.
  • Getting a vegan Dilly Bar.
  • Laughing with family at dinner.

Sunday

  • Playing with William in the morning.
  • Making bubbles outside with William and Leo.
  • Seeing Mom & Dad on the way out of town. And seeing my Jeep. (And seeing a sign to vote for a classmates of mine for city council – very amusing to me to see that someone I went to school with is running for local office.)
  • Visiting with Gina, Steve, and Luca.- It’s so nice they are in Iowa regularly now, and that we get to see them.
  • Going on a walk with Gina and playing with the walkie talkies with the boys while they drove.
  • Playing “this or that” with Gina and Luca.

Monday

  • Seeing a super vibrant double rainbow for a lot of the drive home.


  • Getting some rain while we were gone.

Lowlights

  • Not feeling present this weekend. I’ve been in a funk for many weeks and just DID NOT want to leave my house to go to Iowa this weekend, even though I knew we’d have a good time. (We went back for a huge family photo my maternal grandmother requested.)
  • Feeling dumb about a mistake I made with my rock painting stuff.
  • I’m leaving a really sad part of the weekend out, but it doesn’t belong in the lowlights section. It deserves its own post if I decide to talk about it.