The Shellys. No, the other Shellys

I exercised too many braincells and feel like I really didn't much talk about us in our last blog post .... and if it's supposed to be (at least occasionally) about us, well I figured maybe I'd write about our weekend. Not like it was terribly exciting but I think it was pretty decent.

Friday night we stayed up way too late watching movies. We're in the middle stage of things .... young enough to think starting a movie at midnight isn't too bad of an idea, but when it ends at 2am, we wonder what the heck we were thinking. Earlier in the evening I mowed the lawn with the old school rotary mower that our awesome neighbors Al and Beth gave us when the gas mower died. Mows like a champ! I don't why but I am very excited about this.

Anyways, Saturday morning after being up way too late, woke up and got our meat for the week from the farmer's market next to the East Lib Home Depot. Best bacon ever, and a pound of ground turkey. Also got some local eggs while we there. After we dropped that off at home, we went to do the Saturday soccer thing at Heths Run w/ Y.E.S. soccer. I coach/herd cats with the 5 and 6 year olds, and Sandy helps with registration/snacks/admin/etc stuff. Always a lot of fun, and for me at least I try to make sure the kids are having fun by being goofy with them and keeping them moving than actually enforcing strict soccer rules. Got some tasty pastries from a local bakery on the way home, and still recovering from a short night's sleep, took a nice afternoon nap. After that, we went to Sandy's cousin Deanna's son Evan's first birthday party. Cute little kid! Though I found out the hard way he doesn't like to be gently tossed up and down like most kids. Sandy had a babysitting job that night, so after the party when she left for that, I went home to do a little laundry and relaxing. My mind started wandering towards our summer vacation we are taking in August up to Boston and Maine, so I started looking into things and finally purchased Red Sox tickets for their August 3 game at Fenway. I've been wanting to go there for years and years, never have, and finally we're changing that this year! Kinda pricey, especially when you consider they're just bleacher seats, but what are you gonna do?

Sunday was somewhat more productive. I slept in nice and late. Sandy beat me out of bed by a good hour and began making homemade challah for communion bread for church. When we were awake enough and the bread dough needed to rise for a while, we headed out on a not-quite three mile run. Our route was from our house, down Jancey all the way to Stanton, then Negley to up and around the zoo back to our house. We both made a conscious effort to try and run and not walk as much as possible, and I think we were both pretty successful ... I walked only twice totaling less than 5 minutes after the initial warm-up walk. It was sunny and warm and perfect for running, and felt great to go out and do it. We got home, grabbed the dog and his leash and took a walk up to the Rite Aid in the neighborhood for a newspaper and some bread, and ran into and chatted with some friends on the way back. I made us some ridiculously good bacon and cheese omelets for brunch. After that, I focused on doing some laundry and laundry folding for a bit (yes, I'm a man who cooks and does laundry. Sandy is one lucky gal ;)) while listening to the Pirates game on the radio (predictable result, Pirates lost 10-3. They're beyond bad this year!). Also trimmed the front bushes and got the screen doors up - no more cold this spring (hopefully!). Sandy finished up the bread and sewed herself a purse from start to finish (great baker and learning to be a great seamstress! I too am pretty lucky). I had to go to church early to set up and run the visuals, so did that. Good service, with an especially interesting time of sharing from our friends Nick and Lauren about a missions trip they recently were on. After that, we did the usual Sunday night thing of going over to Ben and Megan's for dinner. Great cookout of burgers, dogs, veggies, potatoes and beer.Of course, got some quality time of playing with Joseph. He's turning into quite the crawler, and he definitely wants to walk. Sandy and I picked up the makings of one of our favorite desserts on the way over - vanilla ice cream with grilled pineapple and dulce de leche. Megan literally picked up and licked her bowl, it was so good. Megan's parents Don and Mickey were in town too and they seemed pretty happy with it.

All in all a pretty good weekend! Now if it weren't back to the cubicle for 10 hours tomorrow ....