A Less Than Thrilling Weekend

Do you want to know how fantastic my weekend was?

I never put any make-up on. Not even once.

I took a nap on both Saturday and Sunday.

I ate Chinese food.

I drank wine.

I paid bills.

I watched football.

I watched baseball.

Aaaaaand that about sums it up.

Naturally, based on all the above-mentioned, I have no fancy pictures to show for it.

You're probably like, why is this girl even posting about her weekend if it was boring and doesn't even include pictures?

I really don't have a good answer for that.

Oh, actually, I got to hang out with my niece this weekend too. And I do have a picture of that.

No matter how the rest of this post goes down, it's all OK now cause we have a picture of Miley.

She's just the cutest.

I also really wanted to tell you all about the cuh-ray-zee ASU vs. Wisconsin football game that went down on Saturday, but truth be told, I really have no idea what happened. It doesn't seem like the media does either, with headlines containing words like, "bizarre final play," "controversial ending," "strange finish," etc. etc. ASU won and that's all that matters. Everything else is something like, 18 seconds left, QB did nor did not take a knee, whistle may or may not have been blown, all while the clock ran out and we won by 2.

Google the rest, it's fine.

And that's all I got for today.

Go easy on me Monday, would ya?

Weekend Wrap-up

I think I've come up with a legitimate excuse as to why I never have my weekend wrap-ups written and posted promptly on Monday morning.  

It's because I don't want to write my weekend-wrap up on Sunday night just in case something fun happens last minute which, if I had prepared my weekend wrap-up ahead of time, would not have been included in the post.

See?

Legit right?

I mean, nothing exciting happened last minute on Sunday night...truth be told, I folded laundry.

But that doesn't mean something fun, and spontaneous, and last minute couldn't pop up in the future. 

I like to leave my options open.

So now that I've spent a good few paragraphs trying to convince myself you I have good reasons for my blogging irregularity...let's get on with it, shall we?

Saturday was a super day.

I went a little Instagram crazy.

Insta-crazy, if you will.

Four pics in one day. That's a record for me.

But I guess it just means I actually did things worth taking pictures of?

I dunno. But you can totes follow me at MissRiss0409

So anyway, Saturday I slept in...until Gun-dog came and woke me up

It's ok though, I'm not even mad.

Who could be mad at a face like that?...his, not mine 

...Although people tell me it's hard to be mad at a face like mine too. And by people I mean Gunther.

See, me and Gunny, we're totally on the same wave length.

Then I decided I wanted to enjoy the warm weather before 'warm' means 115 degrees.

So I went over to my parents house eager to hang out by the pool, only to find my 

soon-to-be-brother-in-law (that was a heck of a lot of hyphens) working on the pool area. I forgot he and my dad were doing some renovation. 

BUT since I'm a grad student and I almost have a Master's degree I figured out that if the sun is shining on the pool side, surely it will be shining on the lawn too. 

So the lawn it was.

And while I was gettin' mah tan on, I took the recommendation of my dear bloggy friend Mosby over at Simplicity is Key, and I began The Happiness Project.

Love. It.

Get it.

Read it.

Saturday night we had a birthday party.

For my dog.

Cause Maycee turned four years old.

And who doesn't throw their dogs birthday parties anyway?

She hated the hat, but loved the bone with peanut butter...so I think she forgave me for the hat thing.

And don't worry, Gunther helped celebrate too...like the good brother he is.

And then he stole her new chew toy we got for her...like the good brother he is.

And then she stole it back and they proceeded to tug-of-war and beat each other up...like the good siblings they are. 

Then on Sunday I got to go see my brand new niece again! 

She's finally home from the hospital and just as cute as she was last week

Exhibit A:

She slept the whole time I held her, which is fine cause I probably wouldn't know what to do if she started moving...or heaven forbid crying.

But that's ok. Cause we totally bonded as I was holding her and we agreed that she would never cry (or poop) when I held her...she just doesn't know it yet. I'll have to remind her next time we hang out.

So you know, it was a pretty good weekend. 

Can't complain.

Weekend-ish Update

I would just like to start this post off by saying...

Black smoke, no Pope. 

Does this have anything to do with what I'm going to write about?

No. 

Do I care about electing a new Pope?

Not really.

Does the word "Pope" need to be capitalized? 

I don't really know. 

Truth be told I just really like the sound of it.

Black smoke, no Pope.

Moving on.

This weekend I became a first-time aunt to Miss Miley Marie, and I'm thrilled about it!

I asked my sister-in-law, Jessica if it would be mean if I didn't want to hold her...you know, cause I'm afraid I might break it her. 

After some convincing, and after I saw her adorable little face, I just couldn't resist...

Granted, I didn't let Jessica go anywhere...I don't dare hold a baby unsupervised.

Good news is I didn't do any damage and Miley is still in one piece. 

...I think I'm off to a good start with the auntie thing.

We celebrated another birthday last weekend too; one of my best friends, Kayla from The Lindholm Life, her daughter turned two with an adorable Minnie Mouse themed birthday party.

 

We got little Kenzie a Minnie Mouse stuffed animal as a gift, and I'm thinking it was a hit after I got this text from Kayla:

I think I may be better at this kid thing that I thought I was. 

I didn't drop my brand new niece, and we hit the nail on the head when picking out a gift for 

a two year old. 

Bonus points for me.

In other news, I've spent the last few months trying to track down a (free) wood pallet, so I could make a cool wall shelf out of it. You wanna know what I stumbled on last week, in my own garage?? 

You guessed it.

A wood pallet.

What's the saying..if it were a snake it would've bit me? 

At any rate, I totally got myself a cool wall shelf now.

Can't wait to get it all nice and decorated!

Lastly, I found a couple tweets this week that gave me a good lol.

Ah Professor Snape, you're funnier on Twitter than I remember you being in the books...

I like it.