Mother's Day Weekend: Part 1

How do you start the perfect Mother's Day weekend?

YARDWORK! 

backyard outta control....

^^ Yeah, so in the midst of us [still, forever likely] unpacking the internal contents of our house, the backyard has gone untouched - specifically the old mulch beds. We woke up early and split the work: Rob took the mowing and weed eating, and I did what I could to get the mulchbeds in the front and backyard under control. It's not perfect yet, but it's on its way! 

wheeeew! 

This whole homeownership thing sure has a lot of little fun extras wrapped up into it.. ;) On the bright side, we wrapped up all the work in a matter of a few hours, and hit the showers to transform from yardwork mode to matinee date mode! 

Throwback to a month or so back when an email popped up in my inbox to tell me Rob bought us tickets to this show as a Mother's Day gift. I've counted down the days and was suuuper excited even on the way down to the arena.. 

yiiiieeee!!!! 

Admittedly I look a little rugged, but maybe that's from five hours pulling weeds and landscaping right before we came down? Haha. Who knows. What I do know was that this show was about to be amazing - and I wasn't wrong! 

love you, mister! 

cirque du soleil | toruk 

cirque du soleil | toruk 

cirque du soleil | toruk 

cirque du soleil | toruk 

By the end of the show, there were enough blue lights to give us a glimpse of what it'd look like if we were all to start roving over Pandora... even without stripes :p

avatar blue! ;) 

It was a really cool show, and if you've got the chance, I would highly recommend it! 

finale!
cirque du soleil | toruk 

We headed home after the show, did one more wardrobe change for the night, and headed back out to meet up with Becky & Will at Rhinegeist. It wasn't a super long night out, but it was fun nonetheless and as always, even more so with great friends in tow. 

hiiiii... 

becky! 

Tomorrow's Mother's Day, and I can't wait to spend it with my two favorites - Rob & Syd. For now, goooood night! 

xo | cmd 

Eve of America's Birthday

Today had something of a late start; we had no work today and planned to take full advantage of it! 

these two... 

I couldn't help it; check out this little sassy-pants... 

hahaha.. love you, grumpo.. 

After breakfast, Syd headed off to her dad's, and the day took a turn into a list of miniature errands, chores and some shopping, while Rob spent the bulk of the day off working on his bike. My first order of business was to take on a small section of the backyard. 

just a little bit of the work.. 

PHEW! If there's one thing I was reminded of today, it's that vine doesn't go down without a fight, and that stuff back there is stubborn! PLUS, we accidentally unearthed a patch of brand new little cottontails, which I'll be guarding for the next several days from our dogs' romping and whatever else I can, until Mama Bunny returns or they reach the point where they can scamper along on their own..

itty bitty buns!! 

I'd told Jessica earlier in the week that I was ready to hit OTR for a night back on the scene; I don't know the last time I was actually down there, so it was high time for us to have a rompus! 

We even ran into Chad's sister Paige at Neon's, after we joked that it'd be funny if we saw either her or Chad on the one night we decide to venture on down to OTR. We wound up at Japp's, dancing the night away and hanging out with a few of Jessica's friends.

As of this afternoon, our confirmed game plan for tomorrow includes some version of us on the boat on water.. somewhere. That being said, I'm OUT!

Happy weekend, loves!

xo | cmd

Yard Work & Bonfires

Rob and I got breakfast moving early this morning, as we anticipated a day full of yard and boat work. We chowed down and headed outdoor for a day of weed-pulling, grass-mowing, boat-buffing and other miscellaneous meanderings around the house.

i'm insanely in love

See ya later, weeds...

pre-weeding..

At some juncture in the day, I received a text from Chris, inviting us over for a bonfire later that evening, as one of their friends from Cleveland was in town visiting for the weekend. We happily obliged, and after the afternoon wore on, we cleaned up and made our way over for a relaxing evening of friends, loom bands, bonfires and smores.

The sun went down, and the sparks went higher! 

We sure have had a happy Saturday, and we hope you have too!

xo | cmd

Tuesday & We're At It Again

yay!!

That's right, my office has officially been open for one full year. I just looked back at the entry I made this time last year; it does and doesn't feel like it's been a full year since we opened our doors, but here we are, growing steadily and running full steam. Happy Expressaversary, to us!

To celebrate, the ladies of the office closed up for lunch and treated ourselves to Seasons 52.

seasons 52 | rookwood | cincinnati, oh

Fooooooooooooood...

bring on.. the lunch (:

We do things in rounds when we celebrate...

a proper 3-course lunch:
pesto chicken flatbread appetizer | cedar plank salmon | mini indulgence desserts!

Oh, and Nancy bought cupcakes from the Sweeterie. 

sweeterie! ;)

After work, I stopped by to pick up Sydni and headed home, pulling in the driveway just as Rob rolled down the street on the bike. We wasted no time switching clothes and adding work gloves for night 2 of some catch up on yard work.

We've had small brick pavers in the bed of Rob's truck for almost two weeks now, and tonight we finally moved them to the backyard, where they'll eventually become a miniature firepit. It was a quick process, especially since there were three sets of hands to help!

such a great helper!!

taking a break... after 3 whole minutes of work... whew! ;)

We contemplated using them for the front yard, but decided instead for the back yard.

this is how we transport around here.. haha.. toys..

As a reward for her hard work, she got to cruise down the block and back with Rob on the bike. Don't worry, friends, I could've probably run faster than they were moving, but she took to the bike like a charm and it was harder to peel her off than get her on it.

little harley girl!

For dinner, it was an easy decision to skewer up some meat & potatoes for the grill. I snagged one of the cupcakes from work for these two, and all together it became dinner for 3, and we are happy little campers!

grilled-up deliciousness [is that even a word? ...who cares]

Tomorrow it's volleyball, willing the rain holds off.
Hopefully it does.
Because hey, volleyball double-headers are the best ;)
See ya then!

xo | cmd