Weekend Recap

Happy Monday, all! Happy to be reminiscing a wonderful weekend this morning.

FRIDAY
Friday night I had my girlfriend over for some wine and Chinese food. Also to ask her to be a bridesmaid :) asking my people to be bridesmaids has been one of the top things I've been looking forward to doing wedding-wise, so I've really been enjoying coming up with personal ideas for each person.

Her and I are obsessed with The Office, so I took a little inspiration from Jim and got her a teapot that looks just like the one he gives to Pam. And I put this DORKY note in there for her. Also, she loves tea, so I figured she would actually use the teapot!

Pleaseeee excuse the way I look, but we were laughing while taking this photo because she's a graphic designer and I literally made this note in Microsoft Word and it definitely looks like it was made in Microsoft Word haha. Like why didn't I center anything?! It's all flush left haha.

Anyway, she said yes! :) And then we had a great night catching up over only halfway decent takeout and wine.

SATURDAY

Saturday started off like most do: Henry and I snuggling on the couch.

We were hosting Sammy's parents and his aunt, uncle, and cousins because his aunt and uncle hadn't seen the house yet and their whole family hadn't met Henry! So Sammy and I spent the rest of the morning and afternoon cleaning the house and cooking in preparation for their arrival.

Had to snap a quick picture of our living room before they came over. I was digging the late afternoon light.

We served pulled pork in the crockpot (courtesy of my favorite packaged sauce from Aldi), mashed potato casserole (courtesy of instant mashed potatoes from Aldi haha cause I don't have a KitchenAid to make mashed potatoes with!), green beans, biscuits, and a green salad Sammy's mom brought over.

We had a great visit with them. We all sat around watching movies together and then kind of all migrated around the house, playing with Henry and eating. I ended the night sitting at our kitchen table with Sammy's mom and aunt.  We talked about wedding stuff, but also about family and it just felt right. It reminded me of sitting around the table with my extended family which unfortunately doesn't happen as often as it used to.  I loved every minute of having them over. AND they gave us the COOLEST gift ever, and I can't wait to share for Friday Favorites.

Once they left, Sammy and I sat around until we remembered the second season of Making a Murderer was on Netflix! So we immediately started watching. And immediately fell asleep 'cause we were exhausted from the whole day haha. We ended up hightailing it up to bed and rewatched the first episode on Sunday.

SUNDAY

I headed over to Chelsie's on Sunday morning for a brunch & bubbly she was hosting so all of us girls could see their new house! 

*also to note: I drove myself which was my furthest solo car trip thus far. It's extremely fitting that my first solo trip was to Target, and my first "lengthier" (it was like a half hour haha) car trip was to Chelsie's house. Loved that realization.*

How pretty does she have this set up?! I was obsessing over all the details and how she has everything styled. And you can't beat the natural light they get in here omg.

I got there a little earlier than everyone (it's kind of a tradition we have to get to each other's houses/events earlier than everyone else haha) and was able to give her and her husband their housewarming gift and our thank-you gift (wine and chocolate, of course) from France for watching Henry hehe.

And then she insisted on this picture haha. But she gave me the sweetestttt engagement gift as well.

All my favorite things--perfect nods to Paris, Audrey Hepburn, and Disney ;)

How cool is that?

She served three different kinds of mimosas: regular ones with OJ, ones with peach mango juice, and ones with apple cider with cinnamon sugar around the rim. I stuck with the apple cider #becauseFall and they were so delicious.

Her husband is the self-designated chef and always cooks for us when we come over. He made egg cups with potatoes, peppers, onions, and chopped sausage and bacon, sausage crescent rolls, French toast, yogurt parfaits, and doughnut skewers. Everything was delicious.

We sat around for hours talking and catching up--it's not often our entire group is together because one of us lives a few hours south. And that particular lady happens to be a bride as well, and she asked us all to be bridesmaids! which was so exciting. It is SO good for my soul to be together and it was definitely needed.

I'm thrilled we have two holiday related get-togethers coming up that we'll all be together for: Friendsgiving in early November (which I'm hosting and am ecstatic about!) and a holiday party mid-December Alicia is hosting (which I know is going to be amazing!).

I got home around 4 p.m., Sammy and I had leftovers for dinner a few hours later, watched a few episodes of Making a Murderer, and mostly stayed in this position until we went up for bed (except to get up 800 times to get a new toy for Henry to play with--Mr. Teething needs his attention constantly redirected...)

We need to do a better job introducing him to our bed (even though everyone and their mother keeps telling us not do this--sorry I want my dog to sleep with me OKAY?) so he starts to get used to it more and it isn't such an exciting thing every time haha. Can't wait for this to be our life! 

While this weekend was certainly a good one, it wasn't without its anxious moments. My anxiety has been rather high lately, I think it's been increasing with all these big life changes, so I'm looking forward to upping my self-care this week in the form of a therapy session tonight and a midweek *much needed* haircut. Always trying to be transparent here in order to recognize and remember life as it actually is rather than how it would "ideally" be displayed via social media or in blogland.

I hope everyone has a wonderful week ahead! xo

*linking up with Biana and Johannah!