Hello Monday! (Another Sublime Simple Summer Weekend Edition!)

Hello Monday!  Another Sublime Simple Summer Weekend is in the books!

Here is what it looked like.....

Friday

During my lunch break, I took the girls over to our  neighbor's house- Miss Tina is always surprising the girls with fun toys for the yard.  We wanted to do something nice for her so one day last week we made her cookies and on Friday we delivered them with a nice bottle of wine.  She was surprised and delighted and it made our day.  The girls enjoyed checking out her Koi Pond...the fish are huge!   They even got to feed them some lunch :)

Friday Night

Rob and Cass planned a night for our families since they are obsessed AND deathly afraid of sharks all at the same time.  We enjoyed Jaws on the big screen.   It was really fun as people in the theater continuously quoted the movie...laughed...sang along and cheered...such a fun experience!

Saturday

Saturday was such a chill day around the house.  After the gym, I stopped at the deli for some meat for dinner and organized and then did some binge-watching of certain shows ;)

The special gift I got for Diana came in...another way she can remember Matilda always :)

Later on, I started preparing dinner and my parents and brother came up.  We enjoyed relaxing and catching up and then Mimi and Papa took the girls for the rest of the weekend- we didn't know what to do with ourselves!

Sunday

Rob and I headed to mass then decided on the beach....a relaxing day date!  Felt weird not having the girls but we completely needed to decompress after a hard week last week...and so we did.....

(LOVING our trusty new beach cart-thanks Amazon!)

That's a wrap!  What were you up to?

Linking up with Heather and the girls HERE

Friday Favorites

Yeah!  We made it!  Daddy's home- woohoo!

So grateful he is home safely but also grateful for the awesome week we had.  The girls were so good- they let me work and then we did something special on my lunchbreak every day...I feel like I balanced both and killed it...sorry if it sounds like I am bragging but sometimes I just need to confirm that I am doing okay...

anyway...as always...sharing some faves from our week and linking up with the lovely ladies HERE 

Our Week Without Daddy

It was a success and a memorable one at that.  Each day, on my lunch break, I took the girls to do something fun AND to check things off on their Summer List.  Monday we went Blueberry Picking, Tuesday we Made Cookies for our neighbor Miss Tina, Wednesday we went to the new pastry shop in town, Le Macaron and yesterday we grabbed all of the School Supplies at Target.  Each stop involved a treat along the way too as you can imagine, I was getting the "shake down"...wouldn't trade it for the world...will remember these days always. 

and each day at my desk...I would get little visitors..this day, we were already rehearsing for the Nutcracker- ha ha!

 

Other Summer Fun

Thank God for our friends and our village too...Diana's friend took her to swim at her pool and to the town beach on Tuesday night...she was thrilled....

 

Mama got to scoot out with besties on Wednesday Night for $1 Oysters at Surf thanks to Papa Bob

 

and Ally came to stay with the girls on Thursday night so Mama could attend Book Club

 

Headshots and Professional Shots

Diana's headshots came in from TTTC 2019 and I was able to gather some professional shots from the show too...so exciting!

We are lucky to have an amazing photographer, Chuck Swierad!

 That's a wrap!  Short and sweet....Summer Of Simplicity...did I mention Daddy's home?  :)

 

Thankful Thursdays with Patty and Holly (All Things Summer Edition)

It's time for us to show our gratitude again!  Welcome to Thankful Thursdays!  If you want to share what you are grateful for, we would love for you to do just that!  We picked "All Things Summer" for our July theme!  You can share what you are grateful for about Summer or pretty much anything...Patty and I keep this loose and just want you to join!  Head over to Patty's blog HERE and link up with us!

This is one of my favorite topics ever so it is easy for me to share what makes me THANKFUL this time of year :)

 Warm Temps

Beach Time

Longer Days

Less Running Around- Less Structure

Summer Lists- Checking Items Off

These Years

What are you Thankful for this summer?