The One With All The Walking

We have come to the close of another weekend.

Insert sad face please.

I had a wonderful weekend doing a whole lot of nothing. I spent a lot of time outside which is not the norm for me. I hate the great outdoors usually. Well, not so much the outdoors, but the bugs and critters that our outside. I hate them. They also scare me a bit. A lot actually. Dang bugs!
In fact, about an hour ago I was in the shower and discovered a tick on my upper thigh. I SCREAMED for Matt to come to me. I think I made him panic because I am pretty sure he ran into our room and then into the bathroom. Like all good men, he removed it from me. Thank goodness! I was about to cry! I know, I know - I am a baby sometimes. But in my defense, I felt like the tick was sucking my blood and making my leg sore.
I should probably make him something yummy for desert tonight.

Oh, and right before my tick incident, (literally right before) when I was undressing in the laundry room, I saw a bug on the floor that I needed him to kill.
He said it was a wasp.
A wasp!
My goodness! It must have flown in when we had the door open.

Weekend recap:
Saturday we went to Joe's Crab Shack for a late lunch. Last time we were here they had a deal going on if you donated $10 to autism awareness you got a coupon for a free classic steam pot. Awesome deal so we bought donated for two coupons.
After lunch we decided to walk down by the river and then across main street back to our car.
Some sort of walk and/or run was going on - lots of people with different brightly colored shirts on.

We saw this structure right in front of the Humana office complex - which is where we parked.
I like how old the structure is.

After walking along the river for a bit we made our way back to the main road where we saw this odd/neat collection of art. Matt said it reminded him of Lynn's Paradise Cafe. 
They had something similar to this in Atlanta - perhaps all large cities have them in there downtown areas? If so, must be cheap artwork. Sure looks cheap. I like it though.

Saw Louisville Slugger Field... haven't been here before. Did go to the Louisville Slugger Museum before.... twice... very fun and educational. We might go see a baseball game this summer. Would be something fun to do. Something new. We both enjoy eating the type of food sold at these places.

BATMAN!!!!!!!

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, Batman!

Matt LOVED Batman when he was a kid! I even have a picture of him in his batman shirt getting ready to blow out the candles of his Batman cake with his Batman party hat on. His mom allowed me to copy her pictures of him. This is one of my favorites since he has a GIANT smile on his face.

I couldn't resist taking a picture of this building when I saw it. I should have made him take a picture next to it.

Sunday afternoon we decided go to Bernheim Forrest to walk some of the trails.
I forgot my phone and didn't think to bring a camera so I only took two pictures with Matt's phone. Both were the exact same scene.

If you look up you see 'Spring' and if you look down you see 'Fall'. This must mean 'Summer' and 'Winter' are in this picture as well. Don't you agree?
I would have loved to see the water flowing down this stream opposed to just being there. We did see one area where water was flowing. I enjoyed hearing it.

After our walk we stopped at McDonald's for ice cream cones. In case you don't know - McDonald's has THE BEST vanilla ice cream. Yum!
Helped cool us down even more then the air conditioning in the truck.

Once we got home, you know what happened - wasp followed by a tick. Remember?

Painted Angel

Friday I left work early to head down to Tennessee since my mom, Matt’s sister (L) and I decided to do a painting class. This was going to be L’s first time and I was looking forward to her experiencing it with us. My mom and I both immensely enjoy these classes and I feel it is fun watching someone new experience the same joys we feel.

And I think we have her hooked... She would like to paint again. Mission accomplished!

 

We decided to paint an angel. First time my mom and I have painted a 'person'.

 

Here are the end products:

From left to right: Mine, my mom’s and L’s

Our one picture together and it is a little blurry.

Darn it! I need to remember and always ask people to take two! Two please!

 

Good thing we took a few pictures with two of us at a time.

Check out my angel's curly hair - just like mine!

Here's L's and mine:



 Mine and my mom's:

Can you tell I need to work on my shading?
Can you tell my halo should have extender out further?

You say 'yes' to all of the above?
That's not very nice. You should lie and tell me it is beautiful! It's the proper thing to do.

Oh! You said 'no' to the above?
Well that's very kind of you, but I know my shading needs work and I should have extended my halo out further.

I think, for the most part, the outcome of the painting is based on who the instructor is and how well they can teach.
Luckily, we had Sara. My mom and I are pretty sure she was the teacher for our Starry Night painting. 
She is amazing!
Very easy to follow and very thorough. Next painting I sign up for I plan on calling the studio to find out which paintings she is teaching. I would prefer her over any other instructor we have had.

Here's my painting step by step:

She had the outline prepared for us. I like this since we didn't have to worry about getting everything in the right spot. Made it much easier. My hands are too small to be measuring down four fingers worth of length!

Does my angel look pregnant to you?

 She does to me.

I LOVE how this turned out!
It is ALMOST a self-portrait. (Minus the reddish hair that should have been a light brown.)
Ha ha ha! What??? I can be an angel! :)

The One with All the Food

Do you notice the FRIENDS reference? If not, Google FRIENDS’ episode titles.

 

I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother’s Day! I know we did!

Just like every other weekend, this one went by way too quickly. Seems like I blink and then it's Monday morning all over again. Why can’t the work week go by as quickly? I blink at work and only a few seconds go by! Not fair!

We knew Sunday would be busy at any restaurant; therefore we celebrated the holiday on Saturday. We let each mom decide where they wanted to go or what they wanted to do.

Lunch with him mommy followed by dinner with mine.

Matt’s mom wanted O ‘Charley’s where I ate a yummy chicken salad.

 

For dinner, my mom and her husband grilled everything you see here:

It was all delicious!

As you can see, I piled as much as I could on my plate. He he he! Kinda hard to see what all is exactly on my plate, but you get the picture. (Get it? LOL!)

 

After dinner we cooked some marshmallows over the fire pit and made smores.

MMMMmmmmmmmm!!!!!! My favorite!

Do you see my brother’s concoction?
This was taken right before my brother’s graham cracker ‘melted’ and fell to the ground.

Who would have guessed this was a bad idea???

Not me! I wouldn't have even mentioned it was a bad idea while he was doing it. Nor would I have told him to eat the chocolate off the ground. Nope, not me. :)

 

The evening was spectacular for a cookout – nice weather, no pesky bugs and great company.

 

Matt’s mom made us homemade chicken noodle soup for lunch on Sunday.

I sure wish I could have ate the entire bowl she made me. I was stuffed though!

 

She followed that up with packing us non-sushi sushi rolls to go which we ate that evening for dinner once we got home. I can never get enough of these things! Something about the seaweed wrap and the sticky rice get me every time.

I really do need to learn to cook some of these dishes. Makes my mouth salivate just thinking about them.

Here's how they look before being cut.

I don't know why it never dawned on me as to how these were made. DUH!

A girl can get used to all this yummy food!

 

I feel like this weekend I was spoiled with all sorts of goodies for my tummy.

You would think it would motivate me to cook.

You would be wrong if you did think that! Yesterday Matt cooked and today I went to McDonald's.

Shame on me!

 

P.S. Not sure why my paragraphs have different fonts and sizes - nothing I do is making it all the same. It's late and I give up trying to correct it!